Conspiracy theorists often say that the collapse of World Trade Center 7 was proof of controlled demolition as no planes hit it. However, this isn’t quite true- while it did NOT suffer damage from an airliner impact, WTC 7 DID suffer impact damage- it was damaged by debris from the collapsing north tower. Building 7 was 400 feet away from the north tower, but when you take into account the fact that the Twin Towers were 1300+ feet tall, 400 feet within easy reach for the collapsing tower. In addition, if you go here and scroll down, you’ll see a diagram showing the debris zones, and some pictures of other damaged buildings in the area. Oh, and as to why those other buildings, didn’t collapse, the reason is this: they never caught fire. It was NOT the fire alone that did damage; it was a COMBINATION of the impacts, the dislodging of the fireproofing by said impacts (the plane impacts for WTC 1 and 2 and the debris impact for WTC 7), and the large, unfought fires that caused the collapse.
There are other problems with the “truther” claims as well. For example, as we see here, in Loose Change, Dylan Avery claims all the buildings around WTC 7 remained intact, while WTC 7 fell straight down into a little pile in six seconds. This could not be further from the truth. The fact is that the nearby Venison building at 140 West Street was severely damaged by the collapse of the Twin Towers. Furthermore, 30 West Broadway (Fiterman Hall) which was across the street from WTC 7 was damaged so badly that it had to be demolished. There’s also the fact that WTC 7 did NOT fall straight down- it fell to the southwest, and took longer than 6 seconds- seismic readings indicate an 18-second occurrence. Oh, and as we see from the previous site, the WTC 7 collapse was NOT sudden.
As we see here, the statement that WTC 7 suffered only small fires is also false. The pictures near the bottom of the page indicate problems with the 9-11 “Truth” Movement’s claims.
Regarding the “pull-it” theory, Silverstein was NOT referring to demolition of the WTC 7 but to the firefighting team. Before someone brings up the video Alex Jones uses with regards to WTC 6 being pulled, go here and you’ll see Alex Jones doesn’t give us the whole truth. In demolition terms, “pull” means to pull the building down with cables. Brent Blanchard of Protect confirms that here and states that a similar operation on WTC 7 would have been logistically impossible. Blanchard further states that, since Silverstein was talking to the fire commander (something even the CT’s acknowledge), they had to be talking about the firefighters as anything else would violate the emergency workers ethics regarding their safety, not to mention the fact that it would create a major liability issue.
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About the fires. No steel frame building has ever collapsed due to fires, except on the day of September 11, 2001. Historically, there have been some fires continuing for hours and even days, without collapsing.
Damage to the building by falling debris was superficial.
It light of the facts on the case, seems to me that anyone who really believes the author’s story is in total denial.
And if you’d actually bother to READ the article, you’d notice that it was NOT fire alone that brought the buildings down and the WTC 7 damagae was NOT minimal, as indicated by the quote here, about 1/4 of the way down: http://www.debunking911.com/pull.htm
Firehouse: Did that chief give an assignment to go to building 7?
Boyle: He gave out an assignment. I didn’t know exactly what it was, but he told the chief that we were heading down to the site.
Firehouse: How many companies?
Boyle: There were four engines and at least three trucks. So we’re heading east on Vesey, we couldn’t see much past Broadway. We couldn’t see Church Street. We couldn’t see what was down there. It was really smoky and dusty.”
“A little north of Vesey I said, we’ll go down, let’s see what’s going on. A couple of the other officers and I were going to see what was going on. We were told to go to Greenwich and Vesey and see what’s going on. So we go there and on the north and east side of 7 it didn’t look like there was any damage at all, but then you looked on the south side of 7 there had to be a hole 20 stories tall in the building, with fire on several floors. Debris was falling down on the building and it didn’t look good.
But they had a hoseline operating. Like I said, it was hitting the sidewalk across the street, but eventually they pulled back too. Then we received an order from Fellini, we’re going to make a move on 7. That was the first time really my stomach tightened up because the building didn’t look good. I was figuring probably the standpipe systems were shot. There was no hydrant pressure. I wasn’t really keen on the idea. Then this other officer I’m standing next to said, that building doesn’t look straight. So I’m standing there. I’m looking at the building. It didn’t look right, but, well, we’ll go in, we’ll see.
So we gathered up rollups and most of us had masks at that time. We headed toward 7. And just around we were about a hundred yards away and Butch Brandies came running up. He said forget it, nobody’s going into 7, there’s creaking, there are noises coming out of there, so we just stopped. And probably about 10 minutes after that, Visconti, he was on West Street, and I guess he had another report of further damage either in some basements and things like that, so Visconti said nobody goes into 7, so that was the final thing and that was abandoned.
Firehouse: When you looked at the south side, how close were you to the base of that side?
Boyle: I was standing right next to the building, probably right next to it.
Firehouse: When you had fire on the 20 floors, was it in one window or many?
Boyle: There was a huge gaping hole and it was scattered throughout there. It was a huge hole. I would say it was probably about a third of it, right in the middle of it. And so after Visconti came down and said nobody goes in 7, we said all right, we’ll head back to the command post. We lost touch with him. I never saw him again that day.
http://www.firehouse.com/terrorist/911/mag…e/gz/boyle.html
Hm, now who should we believe- you or the person who was actually there. Hint: A 20-story hole is NOT minimal damage to a 47-story building. Looks like once again, it’s you “truthers” that are in denial.