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Turkish Skyscraper On Fire - Video
A large blaze has broken out in a 42-story tower block in the center of the Turkish city of Istanbul. Firefighting crews brought the fire under control, rescuing those who had been trapped inside by the flames. Watch footage of the fire here.
Footage from Turkish TV showed the building wrapped in a cloud of black smoke and debris falling from the block. State TV reported that helicopters were deployed to help bring the inferno under control.
"All of them left [those trapped by the fire] the building in a healthy condition. We also rescued a few pets. Our biggest reward is there was no loss of life,” said Adnan Polat, owner of the tower block. He added that the “building has an early warning system and this incident showed the importance of it to everyone."
A faulty air conditioner may have triggered the blaze, Istanbul’s governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu was quoted as saying.
"The building's fire-extinguishing system automatically activated. Otherwise we could have faced a huge disaster," Mayor Mustafa Sarigul told the Associated Press, adding that the inside of the tower had not been damaged by the flames.
The Polat Tower in Istanbul’s Fulya business district is made up of both residential flats and offices.
Nearby buildings and a petrol station were evacuated as a precaution. Roads have also been cordoned off in the area.
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Be careful, as a steel framed building it may collapse at freefall speed any second.
i know
i kept waiting to see it fall into its own footprint
Why would Russia target a building in Istanbul?
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2010/09/russia-was-behind-911.html
Damned Syrians! It's the turrurists!
Durka Durka!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OwFeYlY9GU
The official report will be so obtuse: "We do not know at this time why it did not collapse."
Apparently there was an applied companies van hanging around outside an hour before it went up. http://www.appliedcompanies.net/products/chillers/directed-energy.html Standing by to see steel columns turn to dust again
"We do not know at this time why it did not collapse."
Some dumbass didn't sprinkle enough kerosene, whose white-hot open-air combustion can melt steel!
The Government will soon announce that 14 terrorists were behind the whole thing. The site will be cordoned off with armed guards and all the wreckage will be hauled away without an investigation. Engineers will be banned from the site ... oh, wait, that's Turkey, not the U.S.
I heard they found some Syrian passports a couple of blocks away from the burning building totally undamaged...or were they Iranian...might have been Canadian.
So what are the freedoms we are giving up for security this time?
I dunno. Are there any left?
It's the surrounding buildings that concern me. They should all start falling soon. I noticed a fire in the dumpster a block away from one of them that should cause imminent collapse.
Larry! Just pull it!
Not possible. Turkey has much more stringent building standards.
joking, right? I mean, these are the guys that have whole apartment buildings full of people collapse with sub-6.0 magnitude earthquakes.
How is this in any way newsworthy for this site ?
Read the comments above yours for reference.
A predictable reaction...surprised not more than -27 when I looked. Merely tells me that not many others thought the article was worth paying attention to.
Lets get back to the doomer economics and collapse of western civilisation meme. So much more to rage against there than the (non)collapse of a Turkish tower block...
The BBC has announced it has collapsed, so expect it to fall down within the hour.
is that nanothermite i smell?
Oh! I love the smell of nanothermite in the morning!
BTW, that's free fall *acceleration*, not speed.
Put another way, in order for Building 7 to have fallen evenly at free fall acceleration, a full 10 story cross section of the building would have had to instantaneously vaporized into nothingness.
The key word there is *instantaneously*. One instant the cross section was there, the enxt there was some minor failures, the next 2 seconds nothing was there - the 10 stories just disappeared as a support.
Think abotut that for a moment.
That is what people are addressing when they say Building 7's fall defies physics.
WTC7: NIST Finally Admits Freefall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VGrABNBlQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXTlaqXsm4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3mudruFzNw
A skyscraper on fire, eh? For some reason it reminds me of that movie where there was a skyscraper on fire.
Is that the one that ended with a bearded man being thrown overboard?
Film 'The Towering Inferno', 1974, with Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Fred Astaire, Faye Dunaway and many more
Great line from the Paul Newman character at the end, responding to a thought about what to do with the smoking remains of the giant burning building:
« ... I don't know. Maybe they just oughta leave it the way it is. Kind of a shrine to all the bullshit in the world.»
Here is the movie trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nch1URmJvMA
And here is the imdb (Internet Movie DataBase) page, with all the details and more quotes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072308/
Nah I think he's thinking of a more recent one - in HD
My father in law was one of the fireman hired as extras on that movie. Even made one of the publicity stills with Steve McQueen. He was the guy in the oxygen mask. Almost famous...lol.
He thought getting paid to drink beer with Newman and McQueen was a pretty good gig.
your a filthy liar..
no way mcqueen and newman understood structural engineering.
if anything those guys would of gone along with the mit engineers and the commission report.
this was nothing to do with the jews it is simple metalurgical LAW.
aviation fuel is hotter than the sun.
so stop your conspiracy stuff about butch cassidy and john bullet
keep your lies at home and leave the truth telling to your heroic government
His a filthy liar?
Perhaps your argument would have more weight if you had any grasp of third-grade-level English grammar, including knowing that sentences begin with a capital letter and end with some form of punctuation.
Why should anyone take seriously the comments of a near-illiterate?
Where's Rumsfeld?
That's an unknown known....Wait...you fool me once, we can't be fooled again. Shit that's not it either.
ah fuck it!
fool me twice??
Well, then you have some really big tits.
When is it going to collapse?
shouldnt it have collapsed into its own basement by now?
Only if the basement is full of gold...
+1,000,000
I guess we should have hired Turkey to rebuild the WTC complex. We now know their highrises can withstand fires without collapsing into their own footprint. s/
"Steel doesn't melt" Rosie O'Donnell
Really? I guess I'm going to sell my oxy-acetelyne torches now. They're useless to me.
You might notice that those are oxygen-acetylene, not air-kerosene or air-office paper?
Have you ever melted steel over an open-air fire of phone books and loose paper?
Oxy-acetylene torches do not cut steel by melting it. The steel actually burns. After the steel gets to ignition temperature (quite high) the acetylene can be turned off and the (pure) oxygen does the job by itself. This is not very similar to what happens when kerosene and air (at normal pressure) burns in contact with steel. The temperature of an oxy-acetylene flame is also much higher than the temperature of a kerosene and air flame.
Do you wonder why kerosene-air heaters don't melt? It's because they don't get hot enough.
I guess I should have put </sarc> in, but after all, it was Rosie running her mouth. Hooke's Law and building design in the plastic region are beyond her.
- Ned
Hillary Clinton will blame it on Syria.
A Syrian HVAC subcontractor had recently been observed doing work in the building.
'Syrian' HVAC contractor that was cleared by the Israeli 'security' team at the building...a company such as ICTS maybe?
GE make air conditioners...just saying
http://www.geappliances.com/appliances/room-air-conditioner.htm
They make military aircraft engines, too. What a fuckin' coincidence!
Sprinkler installation done by a company from Athens.
Golly, those flames look huge! I really hope the steel doesn't melt and weaken the structure so that it pancakes into a cloud of dust.
http://youtu.be/XchwE9zVdnw
Yeah, it's not the collapse at freefall speed that gets ya. It's the sudden stop at the end.
Lets see if they'll "pull it" like building 7.
Auntie Em!!!
"Pull-It!"
Yeah, pull it. And for heaven's sake, can't we get a BBC reporter to stand in front of it and say that it collapsed minutes ago? That would round it out.
Ordinarily that would be an outrageous insinuation, but when you consider the amount of MI5/6 that work in the BBC, its not that outlandish.
The comments above are HILARIOUS! I knew I would find some clever ones when I saw the article title. So I will add my own:
You know what comes next: Freefal pancake implosion and dust clouds for miles! I hope the Tylers will link to that footage...
lol
Have they searched the surrounding sidewalks for any unusual passports?
Maybe they aired a special a few months ago on what a fire drill in Turkey would look like, if a 42-story building were to catch fire in Istanbul.
Did Larry Silverstein recently purchase this building?
No. Lucky Larry just got a one week lease and $3 billion in fire insurance. Some people have all the luck.
we starting a pool on whether the girders remain standing or not?
Of course they will remain standing! Even if the fire remained out of control, it will eventually burn out most of the interior save for the steel frame which will be probably degraded and a bit deformed but still standing.
Unless of course the girders and fireproofing materials are lading with thermate to erm... prevent fires from happening.
Wonder what happened to the 757 that was supposed to crash into it first? Hey, maybe the passengers 'fought back'?
The passengers clicked their heels together three times and flew to Shanksville...
"A faulty air conditioner may have triggered the blaze, Istanbul’s governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu was quoted as saying."
How could they possibly know that already?
So... air conditioners are terrorists now!? FUCK!
How could they know this?
Because some guy saw his air conditioner explode, went "holy shit! my air conditioner exploded!" in Turkish, and ran like hell. When the neighbors asked what was the matter he told them and everybody ran out of the building. They told the reporters, and the reporters told you.
Clearly the reason this tower hasn't collapsed is because the fire runs up and down the length of the tower leaving three sound sides. Now had the fire been in the center mass at the very top floors it would be a different story. Everybody knows that scenario will flatten the building like a pancake.
So is the bbc correspondent going to stand in front of this one and say it's already collapsed??
Then the BBC will promptly lose all footage of the event due to a "cockup."
BBC Responds to Building 7 Controversy; Claim 9/11 Tapes Lost
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/270207bbcresponds.htm
The fire seems to be under control but they'll clearly need to "pull" it.
It's a good thing these things come pre wired for demolition.
Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul, not Constantinolpe
They're calling in Rudy G. That fucker will be junk in cargo holds tracking out of Istanbul before the sun comes up tomorrow.
In a few weeks it'll be at the bottom of the Lauretian Abyss along with the WTCs, anybody who knew what really happened, and Megatron.
Then Rudy will run for Prime Minister of Turkey on the "Elect Me or We'll All Be Killed by al Qaeda" ticket
And the Red October.
Humour aside RT posted a video yesterday of cooling stacks being brought down by controlled demolition then today a skyscraper totally a blaze that does not collapse. The fire was a coincidence but RT is using both incidents as an opportunity to send its viewers a message and to mock western media.
I'd say Western media make a mockery of themselves without any help, but props to RT for the effort.
Were there any suspicious looking Cretans in the area?
Manhattan was crawling with cretins around 9/11.
I'm waiting for the building beside it to collapse as well....
Which one? That one with the wisp of smoke coming out of it, like maybe a waste-basket is on fire? Well known that those kinds pf fires are the most dangerous, cos, like... the building just totally looks like it's gonna do anything except collapse into it's own footprint at freefall speed... then it does!
Still hasn't collapsed? WTF! I thought they all went down in free fall when they caught fire, and then Turkey would go terrorist hunting and then go after another country to settle the score after accusing them of having WMD.
Is that not what happens in all countries?
What? Syria has WMDs, you say? How'd you find out about that? Surely you must have a network of spies all throughout the Middle East, who are totally reliable when it comes to spotting those things? You're not making this shit up cos you want a war to further your colonial ambitions and secure even more of the global oil supply than you already have, are ya?
I've been found out! Perhaps if I invite you into my club of get whatever the fuck you want you won't tell anyone?
Our Defining Moment
http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/precious-time/
Mmmm turkey and stuffing
The Turkish defense minister just announced they are missing over a trillion dollars...hmmmmm
Damn airlines are never on schedule...what was the destination of that Delta Flight?
If it does not impload and fall at free fall speed, then, there must be a consperacy.
Humm ..
Only American made buildings melt like ice cream?
Even better than that: they mostly turn into powder before they hit the ground.
Somehow I knew this would be another 9/11 conspiracybait thread.
Watch me get downvoted for telling people to watch this video, which details what freefall speed is, then shows the length of time it took for each tower to collapse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLShZOvxVe4
That's just weak. They start and stop the video, and cut back and forth, and then tell us at the end that it took 22 seconds or whatever. The timer was started ... 22 seconds before it was stopped.
There's a frame-by-frame analysis of Bldg 7 around somewhere ... showing 9.8m/s^2 acceleration. The curve fits with the real-time video without intercutting clips of Rosie O'Donnel.
That's pretty weak, dude. They stopped the video and stopped the timer. Then restarted the video and restarted the timer. You are just fishing for excuses.
Not only that, but you can confirm it for yourself. Just watch the unedited video.
I WANTED to post one where it showed the collapse from the side with lots of other buildings in the frame, which allowed you to not only see that the debris that fell to the side of the building was falling much faster (ie at freefall), but also allowed you to calculate the speed, as the other buildings are of a known height.
Ummm...I think you're forgetting the whole "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" thing. You know, like how if the top section hits the bottom section, there's an equal force directed upwards? I didn't see that on your magic video. Even if it took 22 seconds (which it didn't, because I watched it happen live), there wouldn't be anything left of the top section by the time the collapse reached an equal number of floors.
Damn you, Ike Newton!
Should the current formula be applied to the calculation of freefallling-speed, for buildings that weren't hit by anything whatsoever but collapsed nonetheless, in the same fashion as the rest of the buildings which did indeed got hit within the vicinity, as well?
The tunnels were on fire, guy. Literally turned into a giant blast furnace. Burning tunnels have been used to collapse buildings since the invention of fortification.
What was the fuel and what was the oxidizer in those tunnel fires? How much was available? Or do you belong the nuclear theory group? It takes a hell of a lot of BTUs to melt a thousand tons of 4 inch thick steel plate all at once.
NIST investigation admits its free fall.
re: WTC-1 and WTC-2
"the building section above came down essentially in free fall, as seen in videos" -- Structural Fire Response and Probably Collapse Sequence of the World Trade Center Towers (page 320) [ http://www.nist.gov/customcf/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=101279 ]
re: WTC-7
"This freefall drop continued for aproximately 8 stories or 32.0m (105ft), the distance travelled between times t=1.75s and t=4.0s" -- Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (page 45) [ http://www.nist.gov/customcf/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=861610 ]
When you are ready to open your mind, you can then watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW6mJOqRDI4
Or not. I don't care.
TEN
Miles Wide
ONE HUNDRED
Stories hiiiiiigghhh
Were there people gettin' down on the roof?
Burn baby burn...
Disco Inferno
double post
DHS will have a 10am news conference and declare all air conditioning illegal from this point on, they have to keep us SAFE. Also, B1 bombers are being scrambled to drop tons of bombs on suspected air conditioning factories in the US and in fer'en countries. DHS, they're do'in a heckuva job!!! Citizens, please call 1-800-STOP AC if you see suspected air conditioning units. Together, we kin win this ware!
Meh, it's just a fleshwound...
Every party needs a pooper...so we invited tmosely! Why does there always have to be one idiot who says " freefall speed is actually 9 seconds and the buildings fell in 10.5 ! so the OS must be right!"
Please explain why the upper floors didnt topple in the direction that they began to lean, instead taking the path of the most resistance. Then explain how the 47 steel columns in the core and all the concrete floors just turned into dust
Pink
There is no point arguing about whether it was a scam. It's obvious. The point is to try to understand its meaning.
Here, I have never laughed as much reading the comments, cheers all.
Oh, and another thing, who stole the fucking plane? Where is it? Has J6M rehypothicated the fucker?
Oh? Hang on? Never mind.........
:-)
Show me evidence that the fire in this building burned with enough heat to mimic what a plane load of jet fuel provides, then maybe I'll give the 9/11 conspiracy theories some consideration.
it is not the amount of kerozine that matters, it is the max. temperature burning kerozine can reach. That is not enough to melt steel (in Turkish buildings).
I'll concede to you that it's not hot enough to melt steel. I won't even bother looking it up.
But the key (and oh so often avoided) question is this: Is it hot enough to weaken steel? I was taught as a kid, long before 9/11, that temperatures below steel's melting point are still hot enough to cause steel to lose its strength.
Many high rising buildings had fires... much heavier too. Only in one occasion they collapse. That was when 2 planes hit 3 buildings.
Please define "much heavier". I'm not an expect on building fires, so if you can point to a building fire that a layman can easily recognize as being "worse" than the twin towers, then I'll examine that. I'm trying to help you convince me.
And regarding the fact that only after planes full of jet fuel crashed into them did a scyscraper ever collapse: This argument empowers the conspiracy doubters. You do realize that, don't you?
How about the length of time the fire burned as a factor?
South WTC Tower 56 minutes, North WTC Tower 102 minutes...south tower hit last collapsed first. That is some fast acting fire...
As a comparison:
"I was taught as a kid, long before 9/11, that temperatures below steel's melting point are still hot enough to cause steel to lose its strength."
lololololololololololololololololololololol!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah. And I still remember my old pappy sitting me up on his knee and telling me that tall, steel-framed towers were dangerous and should be avoided as they were prone to collapsing at the slightest strain and falling at nearly free-fall velocity straight through the undamaged portion of the building. Told me this long before 9/11, mind you. Freaking clairvoyant, he was!
See, all 9/11 conspiracy debates go exactly like this. Legitimate questions are raised, and the theorists have no response except for condescension and deflection. And you wonder why the rest of the population won't "wake up" to your truth?
Sorry, but if your entire argument depends on the premise that steel cannot weaken below melting temperature (how did blacksmiths ever do their job?) then you're going to continue to have a very difficult time convincing open-minded people to pay attention to the rest of your arguments.
Just watch a video of building 7's collapse. It's not a slow, localized deformation of a portion of the building on top of the weakened steel beam. Its a complete global collapse with a very sudden onset. Look at the roofline. The entire roofline, all 4 corners, all start falling at exactly the same time. For this to happen, every single perimeter column must fail at exactly the same time. Its impossible in the real world without some very precise engineering. Now watch the collapses of the towers. You have roughly a 25% chunk of the top of the building crushing straight thru the bottom 75% chunk below it. Its a direct violation of the law of conservation of momentum. The top 25% should only have crushed roughly the 25% below it before it exhausted all of its gravitational potential energy, which would have left a full 50% of the building still standing. That didn't happen, so obviously there was additional energy added to the system. If you really want to continue in your government sanctioned fantasy land, you better change your argument to include the fact that the buildings were built with a demolotion system in place, and the gov't just decided to use the system after the towers had been hit.
No, I don't need to change my argument, because your assumption that 50% of the building should have remained standing is pulled out of someone's ass.
Your argument is like saying when you tip over a domino, there should only be enough energy to knock over another domino of equal size, and any domino from #3 onward should remain standing, and therefore all falling domino videos on YouTube are government sanctioned fantasies.
I pulled that one out of Newton's ass buddy. He proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt about 300 years ago. You're obviously a little slow to come around to the idea. And your comparison of a rigid skyscraper to a series of independant dominoes tells me everything I need to know about your scientific literacy. I'll move on. Clearly I'm wasting my time trying to educate you.
Don't look for complex explanations to 9/11. Just start by affirming the official narrative until you bump into a TV problem. www.911censorship.com is more than you need.
Love,
If the fire was hot enough to burn steel why were all those poor bastards standing around where the planes went in? Why didn't those passports burn up. Wouldn't the black boxes have survived however bad the fire was? However piss poor the theorists are the official story is also piss poor. I didn't see any conspiracy theorists calling for war the very next day and fighting for over a decade in the Middle East on the basis of a piss poor story.
The jet fuel, the jet fuel! The magical substance that melts steel! Do yourself a favor and look up what jet fuel actually is and what temperature it burns at. Then go back to watching CNN or reading Popular Mechanics
What amazes me is jet planes are made of... steel! and burn... jet fuel! That be pure magic, sir!
OK, waiting to see it implode like a controlled demolition (but why do I think that won't happen?).
There are videos of the thermite charges going off as the tower falls.
Start scouting for a van and 5 persons in surrounding blocks.
I want to add that the Turkish fire brigade used Aerial firefighting in order to combat the fire. Although i am not an expert i wonder why this didn't happened in 9/11
it had been such a terrible,terrible day here today.
the event here today in turkey today was a terrible day today.
so much wasted traitorious turkish life.
so much smoke,so much dirt and asbestos in the air covering all the fruit and nut sellers today in instabully bull bull
so i gave the order to the bbc to release the press statement that the building collapsed from fire damage into it's own footprint freefall style.
my cousin larry silversteins upgrading of the insurance policy last week was a mere mad coincidence.
noimproprietyoccuredwhatsoever
lloyds of london need not fret like 911 the cost monies for this tragic event will be loaded onto the tax payer
I guess Chertoff will have to rush right in and sell the Turks an assload of naked body scanner cancer booths.