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To: maceng2 who wrote (1522049)	2/12/2025 12:04:56 PM
From: Real Man	2 Recommendations Recommended By longz rdkflorida2 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572154

There was a very long public report on WTC and the answer is that WTC bombing ignited fires in Bld7 which later led to its collapse. It is silly to assume US federal and state forces in charge of protecting people would commit a terrorist act against them, what these conspiracy theories wrongfully allege. A controlled demolition is silly.

To: maceng2 who wrote (1522049)	2/12/2025 12:29:33 PM
From: Eric	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572154

Clueless again: The original 7 World Trade Center was 47 stories tall, clad in red granite masonry, and occupied a trapezoidal footprint. An elevated walkway spanning Vesey Street connected the building to the World Trade Center plaza. The building was situated above a Consolidated Edison power substation, which imposed unique structural design constraints. The building opened in 1987, and Salomon Brothers signed a long-term lease the next year, becoming the anchor tenant of 7 WTC. On September 11, 2001, the structure was substantially damaged by debris when the nearby North Tower (1 World Trade Center) collapsed. The debris ignited fires on multiple lower floors of the building, which continued to burn uncontrolled throughout the afternoon. The building's internal fire suppression system lacked water pressure to fight the fires. It began to collapse when a critical internal column buckled and triggered cascading failure of nearby columns throughout, which were first visible from the exterior with the crumbling of a rooftop penthouse structure at 5:20:33 pm. This initiated the progressive collapse of the entire building at 5:21:10 pm, according to FEMA, [1]:23 while the 2008 NIST study placed the final collapse time at 5:20:52 pm. [2]:19,21,50–51 The collapse made the old 7 World Trade Center the first steel skyscraper known to have collapsed primarily due to uncontrolled fires. [3] [4] en.wikipedia.org I suggest your high school physics teacher take some ME classes in structural engineering in college.