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Excepting three 9-11 collapses, no fire has ever caused a steel-framed high-rise to collapse

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Excepting the three 9-11 collapses, no fire, however severe, has ever caused a steel-framed high-rise building to collapse

Caracas Tower Fire



The tallest skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela experienced a severe fire on October 17, 2004. The blaze began before midnight on the 34th floor, spread to more than 26 floors, and burned for more than 17 hours. Heat from the fires prevented firefighters from reaching the upper floors, and smoke injured 40 firefighters.

The Windsor Building Fire



A more recent case of a severe high-rise fire is the one that destroyed the Windsor Building in Madrid, Spain on February 12, 2005. The Windsor fire was more severe than any of the fires described above, and the incident has been widely publicized, with comparisons to the fires in the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11/01

The Beijing Mandarin Oriental Hotel Fire



The most recent example of a spectacular skyscraper fire was the burning of the Hotel Mandarin Oriental starting on February 9, 2009. The nearly completed 520-foot-tall skyscraper in Beijing caught fire around 8:00 pm, was engulfed within 20 minutes, and burned for at least 3 hours until midnight. Despite the fact that the fire extended across all of the floors for a period of time and burned out of control for hours, no large portion of the structure collapsed.

http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/compare/fires.html


and WTC 7 collapsed how exactly? And why did the media completely ignore that one?





Has anyone seen the old Herbie the love bug movies? I think it was the second one where they showed serveral demolitions of large buildings.

Those buildings came down exactly the same way as the three on 9/11.