Deutsche Bank Still Stands
Quality "Made in Germany"? Not really.
The former Deutsche Bank Building stood on Ground Zero in New York and it was constructed by Americans like World Trade Center 1,2 and 7.
Actually it was already severely damaged, when the fire broke out on August 18, 2007.
Wikipedia tells us this:
The 40-story building was severely damaged by the collapse of the 2 World Trade Center (South Tower) in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The collapse of 2 World Trade Center tore a 24-story gash into the facade and destroyed the lobby. As of July 2005, the Deutsche Bank Building was the only real visible sign that a large-scale disaster had occurred at the site, the gaping hole in its front serving as an eerie reminder of the tragedy.
The building was declared a total loss in 2004.
But that was in 2004, now in 2007 the Deutsche Bank building has become a tower of "miraculous" strength. After a seven hour "seven alarm blaze" burning on multiple floors, which killed 2 firefighters and injured 5, the building is still standing tall, the same old eye-sore in the middle of Ground Zero.
Associated Press tells us this about the fire:
NEW YORK — A seven-alarm blaze in a skyscraper abandoned on Sept. 11 killed two firefighters and raised concerns that toxic substances in the building could be spreading in the plume of smoke that trailed above ground zero.
Officers at the scene were preventing nearby residents from returning to their homes even to rescue pets, telling them that authorities were concerned the former Deutsche Bank office building, vacant since Sept. 11 turned it into a toxic nightmare, could fall. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that fear turned out to be unfounded...
The blaze began about a dozen floors up and was burning on multiple floors at the building, steps from where 343 firefighters lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.
Construction crews had already dismantled 14 of the building's 40 storeys — reaching the 26th floor on Tuesday.
More than two hours after the blaze was first reported, it was declared a seven-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, and scaffolding on the sides of the building was aflame as police shut down streets in the area.
Now let´s see how big a 7 alarm fire normally is.
What about the one reported on
June 20, 2007?
7-alarm fire sweeps abandoned warehouse in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA - A fire swept through an abandoned warehouse Wednesday, collapsing the roof and forcing about 100 residents from nearby homes, authorities said.
Cars parked near the warehouse caught fire, and the blaze sent up a towering plume of smoke visible from nearby Interstate 95...
Or the one reported on Apr 30, 2006?
BOSTON A vacant mill in Woonsocket burned to the ground in a seven-alarm blaze and left two families homeless Saturday afternoon, fire officials said.
The cause of the fire at the former textile mill on Villanova Street is unknown. The blaze, which was reported at about 2 p.m., burned for nearly four hours.
The fire was so large that smoke could be seen from as far as Worcester. Thick, black smoke blanketed the neighborhood.
Fire crews from about 35 towns responded to the scene.
Dozens of residents who were evacuated were allowed back into their homes Saturday night.
The fire spread to one home and threatened about 11 others...
The cause of the fire is as of the moment unknown.
Let´s speculate:
The most likely explanation is an error in the deconstruction work. Construction works have caused major fires many times before, see here, an Apartment-complex in Raleigh and here, the Windsor building in Madrid.
And after all, the construction firm has made a few blunders before, like dropping a large pipe through the roof of a nearby firehouse from the 35th floor, damaging one fire-engine.
And its reported that,
the subcontractor charged with bringing the building down had little experience in bringing down large towers in urban settings.
Now a second, less likely explanation is, that somebody wanted to show the public, that fires do not usually bring down steel-framed high-rise buildings.
No I do not suggest, that it is somebody from the 9/11 truth movement. It is far more likely that it is a group of people from inside the American intelligence community, who want to stop the Bush administration before they start a new war against Iran, which will definitely ruin America financially and destroy its military. If even the last brainwashed and sleepy eyed mainline reporter realizes, that 9/11 was an inside job, even if most still don´t dare to say it, then the truth will leak out into the mainline on the edges. It might have looked for those intelligence guys, as if Dick Cheney and the Neocons are otherwise unstoppable.
A third explanation could be, that the people who want to rebuild on Ground Zero are getting impatient.
Dismantling of the building takes a long time, is done clumsily and then, on top of it all, there is a labor dispute, which slows the project down. Now while they can´t get a permission to just "pull" the building, since it would cause another wave of air-pollution in Manhattan, they decided to pull another fire trick.
They might have laced the building with explosives to pull it down after a few hours of fire. However somehow, the efficient fire-fighters disrupted the plan.
At first "officials" warn the nearby residents the building might come down,and then a few hours later, after the fire had been upgraded from a 2 alarm to a 5 alarm and then a 7 alarm, Major Bloomfield tells the public that
that fear turned out to be unfounded
.
Hmmmmmmmm?
interesting theories.
I would like to know - what category fire were the blazes on 9/11?
and why doesn't the press ask that question?
I distinctly remember an audio clip from two of the firefighters in one of the towers saying "there are two isolated pockets of fire."
That doesn't sound like a seven alarm fire to me.
whatever the reason is for the fire in the deutsch bank building - the message is crystal clear.
Fire could not have brought down those towers.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
on what alarm scale the 9/11 fires were. Those fires did not burn for 2 hours, and that´s the time it took to upgrade the fire from 2 to 7 in the Deutsche Bank building.
However,on 9/11 they might have started right away the rescue operations of the highest fire-alarm, since so many people were in harms way and because of the plane crashes.
Greg Bacon
This fire and the two tragic firefighter deaths associated with battling the fire is starting to smell. The standpipe--a 6" plus diameter vertical pipe that allows firefighters to pump water to any floor--was either out of service or deliberately damaged in order to facilitate the arson.
Blaming this fire on an electrical panel is probably only conjecture at this point and won't hold up under further investigation.
Another curious aspect is that Deutsche Bank had been engaged in a lawsuit for years over the damage caused on 9/11. Yet, the owner of the Twin Towers, Silverstein, got paid off in less than a year????
And if you've read Ayn Rand's book, "Atlas Shrugged", you'd know John Galt and who and what that character is in the book.
So it's a bit strange that someone would name a contracting company after that character.
From the NYT:
Standpipe Flaw Examined in Fire at Ground Zero
By AL BAKER
Published: August 20, 2007
The Fire Department is investigating whether a malfunctioning standpipe sent water cascading into the basement of the flaming Deutsche Bank tower at ground zero on Saturday, denying water to air-starved firefighters battling the seven-alarm blaze above, including the two men who were killed.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the state agency that owns the building, promised investigations, and an official with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration said the agency had cited the John Galt Corporation, the subcontractor doing the demolition, for 20 serious violations at the building.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/nyregion/20fire.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1...