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three columns had evidence that the steel reached temperatures above 250°C” and further, there
was no evidence that any of the very critical core columns had even reached reached 250°C
which won't even melt led (2005, p. 88).
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The fact that the fires were burning at low temperatures is evidenced by the black smoke.
Black smoke is clear sign of a poorly burning fire. Cars that aren't burning fuel properly have
black exhausts. If a truck driver puts his diesel truck in the wrong gear going up a hill, it spews
out black exhaust. When you try and build a campfire, you usually end up with lots of smoke to
begin with but as the fire gets hotter, the smoke diminishes. The WTC fires were billowing thick
black smoke because the fires were not burning hot.
Even if the fires were burning much hotter, the buildings were designed to account for
such fires as noted by Leslie Robertson, the lead structural engineer on the design team and
Hyman Brown, a University of Colorado civil engineering professor and WTC construction
manager. Even typical high rise buildings are designed to accommodate such fire temperatures.
Thomas W. Eagar and Christopher Musso note in there JOM article “Why Did The Towers
Fall?”:
It is known that structural steel begins to soften around 425°C and loses
about half of its strength at 650°C. This is why steel is stress relieved in this
temperature range. But even a 50% loss of strength is still insufficient, by itself, to
explain the WTC collapse. It was noted above that the wind load controlled the
design allowables. The WTC, on this low-wind day, was likely not stressed
more than a third of the design allowable, which is roughly one-fifth of the
yield strength of the steel. Even with its strength halved, the steel could still
support two to three times the stresses imposed by a 650°C fire. (Emphasis
added)
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The FEMA report offers evidence that the fires were not as hot as some reported and
most certainly that they cooled down very substantially. On page 2-18 (figure 2-15) is a picture
of the impact damage done to WTC 1. Clearly visible in the picture is a red headed woman
leaning against one of the perimeter columns and gazing out of the hole in the tower. She is
hanging onto this column; clearly it isn't hot!
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You can see this picture and many more which
will be discussed later at 9-11 Research on the Internet.
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There are other pictures that show people standing and looking out the the holes in the
buildings where the planes crashed into them as well. These can be seen in Eric Hufschmid's
book Painful Questions: An Analysis of the September 11th Attack. It would not have been
possible for people to be where they were if fires were burning hot enough to soften steel.
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A Fire Chief also revealed there were no serious fires in the crash zone right before WTC
2 collapsed. According to a recording of fire department radio communications, Fire Chief Orio
Palmer radioed the following message from the WTC 2 (South Tower) 78th floor at 9:52 am, 7-
minutes before it collapsed: “Battalion Seven ... Ladder 15, we've got two isolated pockets of
fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines.”
What Chief Palmer was communicating was that there were two fires and each required
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