Hey, you're doing a hell of job exploiting your ignorance, if you want to continue with this stupidity, go for it. If this is the best you've got, there's no doubt that you couldn't sell sno-cones to Arabs.
"Every floor on a skyscraper is sealed off from the floors above and below"? Where the hell do you come of with this kind of garbage? Did you read this on a truther website? Watch a youtube? Or are you just making stuff up while pretending to be some kind of world class engineer?
So you're saying that fire could not advance up or down through stairwells, elevator shafts, electrical and plumbing shafts, A/C and heating ducts, maintenance access hatches, and things like that. Not to mention the major ventilation conditions resulting from the aircraft impacts.
You're dead wrong. Heat rises, payne, hot air, hot gases and smoke, in spite of gravity, goes up. The hotter it is, the faster it rises. It's like those big upside down tear drop thingys with a basket suspended below goes up into the wild blue yonder when the dude in the basket fires the burner to heat the air inside. I reckon that's why they are called HOT AIR BALLOONS.
All those vertical shafts act like chimneys. I never fought a high rise fire, even in those in which the shafts were well sealed to the floors, where the fire did not find a way to GO UP. Uncontrolled fire in a building full of fuel is a tricky son of a bitch. You don't watch you ass in there, fire can sneak up and bite you.
The WTC buildings were packed with fuel, and, contrary to the feeble minded attempts by 9/11 truthers to minimize the aircraft impact damage, the devastation in the impact zones was massive. All sorts of internal structure was blasted to pieces, giving the fires plenty of room to maneuver.
Explain why the first firefighters through the doors found the huge plate glass windows in the ground floor lobby blown out into the street and people on fire.
Explain what the hell the survivors who were on the floors well below the impact zone were talking about when they described the damage to ceilings, floors, elevators, and offices.
For example, the 78th floor sky lobby in the North Tower (13 floors below the impact zone) was described by one survivor who entered there from the stairwell. "Like walking into hell", he said.
And, speaking of heart breaking. Here is something that a cold hearted reprobate like you could never comprehend.
Fighting to Live as the Towers Died Hundreds were trapped on floors untouched by the airplanes. Even though the buildings survived the initial impacts, the twisting and bending of the towers caused fatal havoc. Stairwells were plugged by broken wallboard. Doors were jammed in twisted frames. With more time and simple tools like crowbars, rescue workers might have freed people who simply could not get to stairways. In the north tower, at least 28 people were freed on the 86th and 89th floors by a small group of Port Authority office workers who pried open jammed doors.
The impact zones formed pitiless boundaries between those who were spared and those who were doomed. Even at the margins, the collisions were devastating: the wingtip of the second plane grazed the 78th floor sky lobby in the south tower, instantly killing dozens of people waiting for elevators. In all, about 600 civilians died in the south tower at or above the plane's impact. In the north tower, every person believed to be above the 91st floor died: 1,344.
The impact came at 8:46:26 a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 measuring 156 feet from wingtip to wingtip and carrying 10,000 gallons of fuel, was moving at 470 miles an hour, federal investigators estimated. At that speed, it covered the final two blocks to the north tower in 1.2 seconds.
The plane ripped a path across floors 94 to 98, directly into the office of Marsh & McLennan Companies, shredding steel columns, wallboard, filing cabinets and computer-laden desks. Its fuel ignited and incinerated everything in its way. The plane's landing gear hurtled through the south side of the building, winding up on Rector Street, five blocks away.
Just three floors below the impact zone, not a thing budged in Steve McIntyre's office. Not the slate paperweight shaped like a sailing ship. Not the family snapshots propped up on a bookcase. Mr. McIntyre found himself in front of a computer that was still on.
Then came the whiplash.
A powerful shock wave quickly radiated up and down from the impact zone. The wave bounced from the top to the bottom of the tower, three or four seconds one way and then back, rocking the building like a huge boat in a storm.FYI: pain1000, my credentials and my credibility as a firefighter was never questioned by the men I served with or by all the people we helped in their hour of need. We had some very rewarding experiences and we had some heart breaking ones. So, I am rightly comfortable with the work I have done as a firefighter.
You know what you can do with your demand that I prove any of this to you. It's really quite simple, you are as transparent as a sheet of optical glass, so there is no doubt how you would respond if I were foolish enough to try proving anything to you. I could post a couple hundred pictures from my photo albums, I could upload videos to youtube, I could send you my badge and none of it would make any difference. You would still be the same old ignorant fool in total denial as you've always been.
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