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23rd October 2008, 10:01 PM | #1 |
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Explosions actually aren't an uncommon occurrence in a burning building
When Truthers present eyewitnesses who claim to have "heard explosions", they are usually shot down by saying that not everything that sounds like an explosions necessarily is one.
That is true. But let's also look at the other possibility: what the witnesses heard indeed WERE explosions. Just not bombs. A training memo from LAcountyfire.com describes the signs, causes, and dangers of explosions in burning buildings. In fact is is quite common for explosions to occur in burning buildings. They are not bombs, but they are explosions, and there's nothing any more unusual about them than about the fire itself. Link: http://www.lacountyfire.com/article-print-70.html Interesting tidbit:
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23rd October 2008, 10:16 PM | #2 |
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Right-o. A large office complex like WTC had to have some various pressurized or enclosed air/liquid conduits of some kind that would have gone blammo.
Won't a CRT explode violently when the temperature's high enough? Think of all the TV/computer screens in the buildings ALONE. |
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23rd October 2008, 10:16 PM | #3 |
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yea but dont take out of context the 118 firefighter who heard the explosions like going around the building pop pop pop below the fire region,or even in the basement
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23rd October 2008, 10:18 PM | #4 |
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Got a link I can look at?
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23rd October 2008, 10:24 PM | #5 |
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A lot of them were describing bodies hitting the ground... Here's Gravy's breakdown: http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/whattheyheard |
23rd October 2008, 10:46 PM | #6 |
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I'd be interested to know if any of the people who insist that the first responders are keeping quiet have ever been in a mass casualty kind of situation. When everything goes to hell in a handbasket so fast, and nobody knows what's going on, you pick the first and worst thing it could be. You do the best with the info you have at the time.
I don't see Alex Jones going into that NYPD bar anytime soon. Thanks for the link. |
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23rd October 2008, 11:49 PM | #7 |
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24th October 2008, 01:54 AM | #8 |
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Here's a little experiment. Drop a safe out a window from at least two stories and make sure it hits concrete. Do it in a populated area and see how many "reports of explosions" are received to your local 911 operator.
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24th October 2008, 03:59 AM | #9 |
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an aeresol can, when exposed to heat, EXPLODES.
a transformer, when short circuited or damaged, can EXPLODE. an oxygen cannister, when damaged, can EXPLODE. SO yes, in a building like WTC1/2, where there would certainly be many aeresol cans, and many electrical transformers, and perhaps even some oxygen cannisters (if from nothing more, then from with in the impacting aircraft), it does not surprise me IN THE LEAST, that people heard EXPLOSIONS. TAM |
24th October 2008, 04:05 AM | #10 |
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Of course. We know that. Why start a thread to state the obvious?
... Oh yeah. I forgot. |
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25th October 2008, 03:09 PM | #13 |
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not bodies, not elevators falling
Sue Kean (sp?), is a high credibility witness to explosions; a police officer for eight years before 9/11, and in the US Army for 13 years before that. She said, “Sounded like bombs going off, that’s when the explosions happened. I could hear it coming and I knew something was going to happen. I braced myself. It started to get dark and then all of a sudden there was this massive explosion. We were on the mezzanine, which is all encased in glass. The windows blew in, everything went black, we all got thrown. In the military they blow things up around you so you’re not afraid of it, you don’t panic. If something blows up, we cover, we breathe into our shirts, we wait for it to pass over, and then we look up before we get up. All that stuff stayed with me. There was this incredible rush of air, and it literally sucked the breath out of my lungs. Everything went out of me with this massive wind, stuff was just flying pass. I had burn marks, not like you’d have from a fire, but my face was all red and my chest was red and for three or four days, there was stuff coming out of my body like you wouldn’t believe. It was like shrapnel.”
George Koslowski, firefighter, “We made it around the corner, that’s when the **** hit the fan, right then and there. We heard that loud, ba-boom. I just, it was like an earthquake, or whatever, a giant, giant explosion. Then this big gust came, and I just went flying maybe 30, 40 feet tumbling. I got up, got on my hands and knees because all of this white **** was all over me. I just kept crawling, and my ears were like deaf, you know when you hear like a giant firecracker or something.” Explosions that accompany large fires: Smoke explosions Boiling liquid, expanding vapors explosions Transformer explosions Several firefighter accounts talk of large explosions directly before the collapse of the buildings. Some accounts give three large explosions, and then the buildings collapse. Though causality is hard to prove, the frequency of these types of accounts in the Oral Histories makes it hard to deny a connection. It is true that smoke explosions, or boiling liquid explosions, or even transformer explosions may have been among the chaos in the building due to fires in those sections of the building on fire, but they would neither be large enough to bring down the entire building, nor likely to initiate collapse. NIST makes no connection between these types of explosions and collapse initiation. And they would not be happening in those parts of the building where there was no fire, such as on the mezzanine level. Falling bodies, falling elevators, even smoke, or boiling liquid explosions do not account for what took place. And as NIST documented in the first 5 to 8 minutes before evacuation started in earnest, fireballs, extreme heat, smoke and collapsed walls were reported in sub level 6. The ONLY elevator shaft, or shaft of any kind that reached from the strike zone to this level was the shaft for Car 50. Car 50 was stuck around sub level 2 or 3, with two occupants injured but alive. Neither they nor their rescuers reported fireballs or extreme heat, or anything that could account for what took place in the levels below them in this time frame. A machine shop and parking facility was destroyed, and fireballs, collapsed walls were reported. Arturo Griffith, and Marlene Cruz were rescued from the car, in the vicinity of the car for another 40 minutes before being evacuated, and neither they nor their rescuers reported such destruction coming through the only shaft from above. The destruction had to originate from somewhere below. |
25th October 2008, 04:19 PM | #14 |
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I don't think anyone's claiming that transformer explosions... or explosions at all brought down the towers. Claiming as much is about as good as strawman argument.
Do we really need to get into this whole business of the long debunked basement specter bombs all over again? |
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26th October 2008, 05:34 PM | #15 |
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Hardly debunked.
Many firefighters reported massive explosions just prior to the buildings collapsing. NIST doesn't substantiate the damage it reports on in the sub levels that occurred, according to the interviews NIST conducted, in the first 5 to 8 minutes after the plane struck WTC 1. Hardly debunked. Gaping holes in the official conspiracy theory. |
26th October 2008, 05:43 PM | #16 |
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have any of the firefighters stated definitively that the explosions they heard were unusual for a burning building?
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27th October 2008, 10:47 AM | #17 |
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Yes, read my post. Did any of them talk about secondary devices in the buildings? Again, yes. Did any of them talk about synchronized, regular (as in timed, synchronized flashes and bursts), deliberate appearing bursts? Yes. Did any of them talk about it looking just like controlled demolition? Yes. Did any of them speak about massive explosions occurring and then the buildings collapsing? Yes.
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27th October 2008, 02:37 PM | #18 |
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I do hope you filtered out all those similes, metaphors, & analogies... apparently those don't exist in the world of the "truth". Oh and I forgot that confusion in the world of the "truth" is also an impossibility with the overflow of the information & communication networks because of an extremely chaotic event.
Body language describing th pancaking of floors somehow represents a demo sequence... and not one firefighter who reported these explosions felt suspicious enough to come forward in the last 7 years from within the NYFD I don't think you have your priorities set.... These have been explained numerous times but the same claims you just brought up keep getting repeated with the same philosophy, regardless of whether the above is introduced.... |
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*THREAD NECRO JUTSU*
It came again. Better to show that it's been discussed at length than to completely begin a new thread on it. 99% of what witnesses described at the WTC are things attributable to secondary causes of the fires. In fact many of the actual causes of explosions can be found discussed in some of the NFPA documentation, firefighters manuals, and books. 99% of OTHER building fires will have reports of explosions without any explosives or detonators being involved at all, and 100% of all controlled demolitions will have been carried out with the building not already being on fire during the process. Here's my proposal; "9/11 skeptics" - the conspiracy theorists - can demonstrate what was unusual about reports of explosions during the WTC events. To give some perspective, this thread was posted 2 and a half years ago and not a single statement has been made on the part of self-referred "9/11 skeptics" to explain how they concluded that the only reason for the reports of explosions is the presence of incendiaries and explosive charges. I also propose that this thread or post gets linked any time someone repeats the 118 reports of explosions = explosives nonsense. Other fires with reports of explosions: Explosions as Firefighters Tackle Fire at Falmouth Docks
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People describing explosions, blasts and even that these things sounded like bombs going off are common even when the people KNOW they AREN'T describing actual bombs.
My video I made with only 3 examples to demonstrate, others in this thread have more:
This reminds me of the other truther myth that molten metal and people reporting molten steel was strange on 911, when you can find loads of reports of exactly that kind of thing in other fires. |
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28th June 2011, 05:20 AM | #23 |
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9/11 sceptics don't have to show that explosives is the only explanation. I think that bar is too high. But they should show that explosives would be the best, or at least a likely, explanation.
This could, for example, be done by figuring out the percentage of larger building fires that exhibit sounds of explosions, and the percentage of fires with reported explosions where explosives were indeed the cause of the sounds, and maybe the percentage of fires where the explosives that were heard were installed in porpose to demolish the building. These observed percentages are a first step towards establishing likelihoods. The likelihood is of course some Baysean product of the initial (before observations) likelihood that explosives are present or used with the likelyhood that the observation is explained by such, etc. It's much like testing for colon cancer: I am 43 years old and have no family background and no risk factors for the desease. The likelihood that I have colon cancer is very low still. If I then get a positive result from a quick standard test, the likelihood that I have colon cancer is still not alarmingly high, because that test produces more than 1% of false positives. Most guys my age and risk category that get a positive result are in fact negative. |
28th June 2011, 02:04 PM | #24 |
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This is what I sounded like 2 1/2 years ago? Goodness. It's like I've been getting LESS mature as I age. How does that happen?
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28th June 2011, 02:50 PM | #25 |
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29th June 2011, 10:43 AM | #26 |
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If any truther
You may show up and watch...hell, I won't even ask to meet you. You can just stand with the other spectators and observe. As soon as I have a date/time that we are supposed to do it, I'll post it here. Just so you know, this will be in a suburb town of Buffalo, NY. Fair Advanced Warning: The explosions and loud noises you'll hear are not bombs or demolition materials of any kind. Just fire doing what it does. |
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29th June 2011, 01:49 PM | #27 |
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Can we look for another Murthad video on You Tube?
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29th June 2011, 01:58 PM | #28 |
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Probably...but that's not me. That's a local guy here who runs the website www.ecfwire.com. He or someone on his team will respond to big calls and special firefighter events in the area and put them up on his website.
This was a call we had a couple days back at a junkyard fire. Was pretty intense. http://www.ecfwire.com/page2080.html |
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Yeah, there was a lot of fuel in there. The magnesium kept re-igniting as well. My company (Bellevue) was only on scene for a brief time, and that was mainly as relief near the end (prior to that, we were playing traffic cops a bit down the road). Even so, when we finally went in, there were still pockets of fire and the heat and fumes were pretty overwhelming.
Incident Command had the news tell everyone within a 2 miles radius to stay in their homes and close the windows...that's how bad the fumes were. The good thing was that no one got hurt. Made the incident somewhat enjoyable...if you know what I mean
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30th June 2011, 10:26 AM | #31 |
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The only ones taking those 118 firefighters out of context is you 911 kooks...
Hence the title of the thread. 911 kooks are too brainwashed by internet nonsense to understand that there are lots of things during building fires that would cause loud noises. There are also lots of things building fires that could "explode". |
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