Former Deutsche Bank Building on Fire in Lower Manhattan
August 18th, 2007It hasn’t collapsed yet? The second I read about this incident, I thought:
I wonder if we’re all going to get a lesson in how fire CAN cause skyscrapers to collapse…
“Look,” Fox News, et al will say about people who talk about demolition of the buildings on 9/11, “The Deutsche Bank building collapsed due to fire. God damned conspiracy theorists.”
If you’re in Manhattan, with a clear view of this scene, consider setting a video camera on a tripod, and focusing in on the base of the building; not the top floors. There will be lots of video of the top floors.
Also, extend your tripod so that the camera’s center of gravity is higher than usual, but still stable. Turn image stabilization off. Zoomed in like this, your camera might catch any weird seismic disturbances before the building begins to fall… If it begins to fall.
UPDATE: No Dander of Collapse
Via: Newsday:
A six-alarm fire in the abandoned Deutsche Bank skyscraper sent a plume of gray smoke trailing above ground zero Saturday afternoon as firetrucks and police cars raced through lower Manhattan to reach a building already decimated by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Two firefighters were critically injured while trying to reach the fire, which began about a dozen floors up in the tower left vacant since Sept. 11 turned it into a toxic nightmare, fire officials said.
One firefighter suffered cardiac arrest and another smoke inhalation. A third suffered minor injuries to an ankle, fire officials at the scene said.
The fire was burning on multiple floors at the building, where construction crews had already dismantled 14 of the building’s 40 stories _ reaching the 26th floor on Tuesday. Some firefighters used stairs to reach the burning upper floors.
More than two hours after the blaze was first reported, the blaze was declared a six-alarm fire. Officials continued to push onlookers further back from the building and set up a command post on the West Side Highway. Officials could be seen poring over a map of the area.
The cause of the fire was unknown. Smoke pouring from the burning building was visible from midtown Manhattan and the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.
The acrid smell of smoke, which hung over the neighborhood for days after Sept. 11, returned to lower Manhattan along with the wail of emergency vehicles. More than three dozen fire vehicles, with more than 160 firefighters, responded to the blaze as pieces of burning debris fell from the building to the streets.
i don’t think it’s possible to rig a building at a moments notice, much less a burning one. if it does collapse, it won’t look like 911.
of course, if it doesn’t, it won’t look like 911 either.
more bad news for the elite. better suppress the story and hurry up with that nuke guys!!