AND BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE
Truthers often show this specific video, created by the oft discredited group Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
There is one fairly large problem with these videos: NONE of them show the entire collapse.
You see, what truthers conveniently forget about in any collapse footage for World Trade Center Seven is many seconds before the entire building collapses, a portion of the mechanical penthouse up top collapses into the building itself. This is the point, at the very latest, the collapse timer starts rolling.
The Penthouse collapses at about 3:41 in the video. The rest of the building hits the floors at about 3:58. That's about 17 seconds for the entire collapse. Which, as you might've guessed, throws the truther theory that WTC7 fell at free fall speed, and therefor, was clearly a controlled demolition, out the window.
But they seem to refuse to believe this. It just LOOKS like a controlled demolition. Does it? Look at the video. Do you hear any loud bangs? And bright flashes? And cloud plumes from initial foundation explosions? No, you don't.
"But it fell straight down in the path of least resistance into its own footprint." Did it? Let's look at a picture of an overhead shot of the remains of WTC7 after collapsing:
Notice how the remains of WTC7 have spilt into the bordering streets around it. All of them, actually. This is not consistent in any way with a controlled demolition. The collapse of WTC7 also caused this to a neighboring building:
This would be Fiterman Hall, located north of WTC7 on the corner of Barclay and Greenwich. If it was a controlled demolition, as truthers claim, and fell straight down, as truthers say, then how did it damage this building?
So it isn't looking good for controlled demolition theorists at all. But wait, how DID it collapse then? I mean, it wasn't hit by a plane like the Twin Towers were! There is a very simple explanation for this: the North Tower severely damaged World Trade Center Seven when it collapsed.
DAMAGE TO WTC 7
Just to give you an idea of how close these two buildings were:
Pretty close, yeah? Here's a look at WTC7 when the North Tower collapsed:
Certainly looks like it's south side is getting hit there from the North Tower's collapse. Damage? You bet:
This looks like a pretty significant gouge was taken out of the SW corner of WTC7. The damage here starts at the 18th floor of the building. This was a 47 story building. So 38% of the SW corner has been severely damaged already. This is a pretty significant number.
Here you can see what looks like a vertical gash going up and down the entire building:
As you can compare from the picture of WTC7 in the background of the North Tower above, that large vertical black bar was not there before. This is indicative of something happening to damage it from before the North Tower collapsing and after. And obviously the North Tower collapse is the main culprit to be accused. It makes little to no sense that this is caused by bombs for controlled demolition, as it is shown several hours before it collapsed.
Firefighters on the scene also said as much for how badly damaged it was.
Fire Chief Daniel Nigro:
"The biggest decision we had to make was to clear the area and create a collapse zone around the severely damaged [WTC Building 7]. A number of fire officers and companies assessed the damage to the building. The appraisals indicated that the building's integrity was in serious doubt."
Deputy Chief Peter Hayden:
"also we were pretty sure that 7 World Trade Center would collapse. Early on, we saw a bulge in the southwest corner between floors 10 and 13, and we had put a transit on that and we were pretty sure she was going to collapse. You actually could see there was a visible bulge, it ran up about three floors. It came down about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, but by about 2 p'clock in the afternoon we realized this thing was going to collapse."
Firehouse: Was there heavy fire in there right away?
Hayden:"No, not right away, and that's probably why it stood for so long because it took a while for that fire to develop. It was a heavy body of fire in there and then we didn't make and attempt to fight it. That was just one of those wars we were just going to lose. We were concerned about the collapse of a 47 story building there. We were worried about additional collapse there of what was remaining standing of the towers and the Marriott, so we started pulling the people back after a couple of hours of surface removal and searches along the surface of debris. We started to pull guys back because we were concerned for their safety."
Battalion Chief Tom Vallebuona:
"We thought 7 World Trade Center was going to fall and push the side of the World Trade Center that was still standing, and then it was going to go into 90 and I thought the scaffold was going to fall and cover the block and kill another 30 people. As silly as it sounds now, if you were there at that moment, I wasn't the only person thinking that way."
Deputy Chief Nick Visconti:
"Now, World Trade Center 7 was burning and I was thinking to myself, how come they're not trying to put this fire out? I didn't realize how much they had because my view was obstructed. All I could see was the upper floor. At some point, Frank Fellini said, now we've got hundreds of guys out there, hundreds and hundreds, and that's on the West Street side alone. He said to me, Nick, you've got to get those people out of there. I thought to myself, out of where? Frank, what do you want, Chief? He answered, 7 World Trade Center, imminent collapse, we've got to get those people out of there."
There are more similar testimonies where that came from. These are the people that were there, that were runing fire fighting and rescue operations at the WTC site. They all say that WTC7 was heavily damaged and very much on fire, and they all expected it to collapse.
"LUCKY" LARRY SILVERSTEIN AND PULL IT
Truthers often make the claim that Larry Silverstein, the lease holder for the World Trade Center complex, admitted on national telivision that WTC7 was a controlled demolition. Their "smoking gun" this time? He said those two magical, whimsical words: pull it. The transcript:
"I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, "We've had such a terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it." And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."
Now, judging from what we've read from those firefighter testimonies on WTC7 that day, they elected to stop fighting the fires there. They then pulled out (see what I did there? that's important) of the immediate area and made a collapse radius and then just watched and waited.
Now, knowing all of that, do you think Larry was talking about blowing the building up, or withdrawing from the area so no more lives were at risk for if/when the building collapsed?
As for the term pull it, here is a picture of WTC6 getting "pulled":
The term "pull it" in the demolition industry is not that of explosives and the bing bang boom bamboozle. It is quite literally hooking up cables to a damaged building and pulling it down with a crane. You can watch the short clip where they explain that process here:
http://www.911myths.com/PullBuildingSix.avi
From ImplosionWorld on the subject:
"There is no such phrase in explo-demo. Most likely he meant "pull out" as in have people evacuate. Conventionally, "pull a building" can mean to pre-burn holes in steel beams near the top floor and affix long cables to heavy machinery, which then backs up and causes the structure to lean off its center of gravity and eventually collapse. But this is only possible with buildings about 6-7 stories or smaller. This activity was performed to bring down WTC 6 (Customs) after 9/11 because of the danger in demolishing conventionally."
Another strike out for the truthers. No evidence of controlled demolition found on site. Fire fighters saying they believed it was going to collapse from damage and fires. Demolition experts saying pull it isn't an explosive demolition term.
So, whenever you hear a conspiracy theorist say these words: "Did you know a third tower fell on 9/11?" or "Two planes cannot collapse three buildings!" you can say "Correct! But two planes, fire, damage from said planes, more fires, and collapse of the second of the first two buildings will cause the third building to collapse."
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