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Mysteries abound about World Trade Center 7's (WTC-7) demise on September 11. In
the early evening in the Big Apple of that horrific day this 47-story steel building suddenly
collapsed. An odd series of failures had occurred.
They began when a small amount of debris falls from the implosion of World Trade Center 1, a block
away. Somehow small fires subsequently break out in WTC-7. The fireproofing systems completely
fail. The fires burn all day from an unknown fuel. Eventually, the flames reach tanks of diesel
fuel at ground level. Suddenly, the penthouse begins to fall. The entire lower levels immediately
experience the same massive failures. About seven seconds later the entire building is gone. It
takes a minute for 2 million square feet of office space to become a large pile of rubble.
Satellite photos later confirm that the vast majority of WTC-7's rubble rests in what was the
building’s footprint. The neatness of the rubble enables clean-up crews to swiftly remove and
recycle the steel after just a cursory examination (
See Eric Hufschmid at
http://www.erichufschmid.net/PainfulQuestions_1.pdf)
World Trade Center 7 (WTC-7) was built in 1985. It was located across Vesey Street from the main
World Trade Center compound. It was a largely-conventional steel building which had forty-four
floors. Somewhat dark and sleek, it was designed by Emery Roth & Sons. It collapsed at 5:20
p.m. on September 11, 2001. Fortunately, WTC-7 had been evacuated and no one is known to have been
killed by its demise.
It fell about seven hours after the
strange collapses of the North and
South Twin Towers. (WTC-2, the South tower, collapsed around 10:00 a.m. WTC-1, the North, came down
about a half hour later.) The unknown quantity of debris from WTC-1 is said to have caused fires in
WTC-7 that prevailed on the 11th floor.
Sherlock Holmes once remarks how odd it is that a guard dog did not bark at a midnight intruder.
Similarly, it is curious how few people bothered to photograph a building about to totally collapse
when destruction of an
inconceivable scale had been released just hours before (only 200' away). Apparently, the WTC-7
fires were not photogenic. Indeed, when viewing the extant
documentation
there are only small fires that
are localized within the offices of the Securites Exchange Commission (SEC). Ironically, never
before 9/11/01 in history has a steel building even partially collapsed from a fire. Neither has
any since.
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(“World Trade Center Building Performance
Study”, document number 403, May, 2002) , 36,000 gallons of diesel fuel was stored in
diesel tanks just above and at ground level. The fuel, stored in fire-resistant containers, was
there to run backup generators. However, the report never says for sure whether any burned. It also
fails to confirm that burning diesel was the source of the building’s collapse. The report
even ignores the biggest mystery of all. How this building could have fallen in its own footprint
rather unlike what is expected from the Leaning Tower of Pisa is not discussed.
FEMA’s report is filled with rampant speculation and hypothetical scenarios. Throughout it
are weasel-words such as “appears” and “apparently”. The tone is set in the
first paragraph. It says that the “performance of” World Trade Center 7’s
collapse is “of significant interest because it appears the collapse was due primarily to
fire, rather than any impact damage from the collapsing [Twin] towers.” Overall, very little
of this report is stated with conviction.
FEMA's nonchalance about WTC-7’s collapse is stunning. Structural failures of this magnitude
do not normally take place. In addition, there was high-profile, large-budget government agencies
leasing office space in WTC-7 that day. Besides the SEC, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the
Department of Defense (DOD), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and New York’s Office of
Emergency Management (OEM) were all tenants. None of the current heads of these departments have
been vocal in demanding to know why this building collapsed. In addition, while some details have
been released, a full accounting of what data these agencies lost has not been prominently
reported.
Another source of curiosity is what the NYC Office of Emergency Management (OEM) was doing prior to
9/11/01. We know that the OEM took up the entire 23rd floor, serving as some sort of command center
for then-Mayor Guiliani. Also, currently their website offers “Pet Preparedness” tips.
However, their activities at that time remain a source of widespread speculation.
With the two-year anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center arriving, the subject of
WTC-7's odd disintegration is due some scrutiny by the liberal US media. To name just one, does
Z Magazine believe that we now live in an era when tall steel
buildings can collapse in large cities without any significant discussion of why? Even George
Orwell might have trouble imagining that scenario.
For details on Eric Hufschmid's Book and Video entitled "Painful Deceptions", click here
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