Post by 8real on Sept 5, 2006 3:19:59 GMT -5
Peter Tully, president of Tully Construction of Flushing, New York, told this reporter he had seen pools of "literally molten steel" at the World Trade Center, where his company had been contracted to remove debris, weeks after the attacks.
Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, wrote the clean-up plan for the WTC and confirmed the presence of molten metal at the site. Loizeaux said there was, "hot spots of molten steel in the basements." These hot areas were found "at the bottoms of the elevator shafts of the main towers, down seven basement levels," The molten steel was found "three, four, and five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed,". Loizeaux also confirmed that molten iron had been found in the rubble of WTC 7, the building owned by Larry Silverstein which was neither hit by an airplane, but collapsed mysteriously in the late afternoon of 9/11.
A report by Waste Age describes New York Sanitation Department workers moving "everything from molten steel beams to human remains."
source: www.wasteage.com/mag/waste_dday_ny_sanitation/
A report on the Government Computer News website quotes Greg Fuchek, vice president of sales for LinksPoint Inc. as stating:
"In the first few weeks, sometimes when a worker would pull a steel beam from the wreckage, the end of the beam would be dripping molten steel"
source: www.gcn.com/print/21_27a/19930-1.html
A Messenger-Inquirer report recounts the experiences of Bronx firefighter "Toolie" O'Toole, who stated that some of the beams lifted from deep within the catacombs of Ground Zero by cranes were "dripping from the molten steel."
source: www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/attacks/4522011.htm
cached: 911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc/evidence/messengerinquirer_recoveryworker.html
A transcription of an audio interview of Ground Zero chaplain Herb Trimpe contains the following passage:
"When I was there, of course, the remnants of the towers were still standing. It looked like an enormous junkyard. A scrap metal yard, very similar to that. Except this was still burning. There was still fire. On the cold days, even in January, there was a noticeable difference between the temperature in the middle of the site than there was when you walked two blocks over on Broadway. You could actually feel the heat.
It took me a long time to realize it and I found myself actually one day wanting to get back. Why? Because I felt more comfortable. I realized it was actually warmer on site. The fires burned, up to 2,000 degrees, underground for quite a while before they actually got down to those areas and they cooled off.
I talked to many contractors and they said they actually saw molten metal trapped, beams had just totally had been melted because of the heat. So this was the kind of heat that was going on when those airplanes hit the upper floors. It was just demolishing heat."
source: www.recordonline.com/adayinseptember/trimpe.htm
cached: 911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc/evidence/recordonline_chaplain.html
A report in the Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine about recovery work in late October quotes Alison Geyh, Ph.D., as stating:
"Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel."
source: www.jhsph.edu/Publications/Special/Welch.htm
A publication by the National Environmental Health Association quotes Ron Burger, a public health advisor at the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who arrived at Ground Zero on the evening of September 12th. Burger stated:
"Feeling the heat, seeing the molten steel, the layers upon layers of ash, like lava, it reminded me of Mt. St. Helen’s and the thousands who fled that disaster."
source: www.neha.org/9-11%20report/index-The.html
An article in The Newsletter of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah describing an speaking appearance by Leslie Robertson (structural engineer responsible for the design of the World Trade Center) contains this passage:
"As of 21 days after the attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running"
source: www.seau.org/SEAUNews-2001-10.pdf (page 3)
A member of the New York Air National Guard's 109th Air Wing was at Ground Zero from September 22 to October 6. He kept a journal on which an article containing the following passage is based.
"Smoke constantly poured from the peaks. One fireman told us that there was still molten steel at the heart of the towers' remains. Firemen sprayed water to cool the debris down but the heat remained intense enough at the surface to melt their boots."
source: www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3731/is_200112/ai_n9015802#continue
The book American Ground, which contains detailed descriptions of conditions at Ground Zero, contains this passage:
"... or, in the early days, the streams of molten metal that leaked from the hot cores and flowed down broken walls inside the foundation hole."
source: American Ground (page 32)
A review of of the documentary Collateral Damage in the New York Post describes firemen at Ground Zero recalling "heat so intense they encountered rivers of molten steel."
source: www.nypost.com/movies/19574.htm
Dr. Keith Eaton toured Ground Zero and stated in The Structural Engineer, "They showed us many fascinating slides, ranging from molten metal which was still red hot weeks after the event, to 4-inch thick steel plates sheared and bent in the disaster
source: Structural Engineer, September 2002
Sarah Atlas was part of New Jersey's Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue and was one of the first on the scene at Ground Zero with her canine partner Anna. She reported in Penn Arts and Sciences, summer 2002, "Nobody's going to be alive.' Fires burned and molten steel flowed in the pile of ruins still settling beneath her feet."
source: Penn, 2002
The photographs below by Frank Silecchia show chunks of the red hot steel being removed from the North Tower rubble on September 27, 2001
The following photograph has become available, evidently showing the now-solidified metal with entrained material, stored (as of November 2005) in a warehouse in New York. The abundance of iron (as opposed to aluminum) in this material is indicated by the reddish rust observed. When a sample is obtained, a range of characterization techniques will quickly give us information we seek.
source: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1858491.stm
The following photograph is of Cedar Street At Ground Zero, Likely From Collapsed WTC 2 , With 90 West Street Building In Background, 9/11/2001
Here is video clips that provides a eye-witness accounts regarding "red hot" steel, found weeks later during clean-up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3D2myMbQjQ ("Red Hot" steel found weeks after 9/11)
Here is video clips that provides a eye-witness accounts regarding "molten steel" that was described as "lava" by American Heroes.
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3060923273573302287&q (Molten Metal Flows at Ground Zero)
Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, wrote the clean-up plan for the WTC and confirmed the presence of molten metal at the site. Loizeaux said there was, "hot spots of molten steel in the basements." These hot areas were found "at the bottoms of the elevator shafts of the main towers, down seven basement levels," The molten steel was found "three, four, and five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed,". Loizeaux also confirmed that molten iron had been found in the rubble of WTC 7, the building owned by Larry Silverstein which was neither hit by an airplane, but collapsed mysteriously in the late afternoon of 9/11.
A report by Waste Age describes New York Sanitation Department workers moving "everything from molten steel beams to human remains."
source: www.wasteage.com/mag/waste_dday_ny_sanitation/
A report on the Government Computer News website quotes Greg Fuchek, vice president of sales for LinksPoint Inc. as stating:
"In the first few weeks, sometimes when a worker would pull a steel beam from the wreckage, the end of the beam would be dripping molten steel"
source: www.gcn.com/print/21_27a/19930-1.html
A Messenger-Inquirer report recounts the experiences of Bronx firefighter "Toolie" O'Toole, who stated that some of the beams lifted from deep within the catacombs of Ground Zero by cranes were "dripping from the molten steel."
source: www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/attacks/4522011.htm
cached: 911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc/evidence/messengerinquirer_recoveryworker.html
A transcription of an audio interview of Ground Zero chaplain Herb Trimpe contains the following passage:
"When I was there, of course, the remnants of the towers were still standing. It looked like an enormous junkyard. A scrap metal yard, very similar to that. Except this was still burning. There was still fire. On the cold days, even in January, there was a noticeable difference between the temperature in the middle of the site than there was when you walked two blocks over on Broadway. You could actually feel the heat.
It took me a long time to realize it and I found myself actually one day wanting to get back. Why? Because I felt more comfortable. I realized it was actually warmer on site. The fires burned, up to 2,000 degrees, underground for quite a while before they actually got down to those areas and they cooled off.
I talked to many contractors and they said they actually saw molten metal trapped, beams had just totally had been melted because of the heat. So this was the kind of heat that was going on when those airplanes hit the upper floors. It was just demolishing heat."
source: www.recordonline.com/adayinseptember/trimpe.htm
cached: 911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc/evidence/recordonline_chaplain.html
A report in the Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine about recovery work in late October quotes Alison Geyh, Ph.D., as stating:
"Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel."
source: www.jhsph.edu/Publications/Special/Welch.htm
A publication by the National Environmental Health Association quotes Ron Burger, a public health advisor at the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who arrived at Ground Zero on the evening of September 12th. Burger stated:
"Feeling the heat, seeing the molten steel, the layers upon layers of ash, like lava, it reminded me of Mt. St. Helen’s and the thousands who fled that disaster."
source: www.neha.org/9-11%20report/index-The.html
An article in The Newsletter of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah describing an speaking appearance by Leslie Robertson (structural engineer responsible for the design of the World Trade Center) contains this passage:
"As of 21 days after the attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running"
source: www.seau.org/SEAUNews-2001-10.pdf (page 3)
A member of the New York Air National Guard's 109th Air Wing was at Ground Zero from September 22 to October 6. He kept a journal on which an article containing the following passage is based.
"Smoke constantly poured from the peaks. One fireman told us that there was still molten steel at the heart of the towers' remains. Firemen sprayed water to cool the debris down but the heat remained intense enough at the surface to melt their boots."
source: www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3731/is_200112/ai_n9015802#continue
The book American Ground, which contains detailed descriptions of conditions at Ground Zero, contains this passage:
"... or, in the early days, the streams of molten metal that leaked from the hot cores and flowed down broken walls inside the foundation hole."
source: American Ground (page 32)
A review of of the documentary Collateral Damage in the New York Post describes firemen at Ground Zero recalling "heat so intense they encountered rivers of molten steel."
source: www.nypost.com/movies/19574.htm
Dr. Keith Eaton toured Ground Zero and stated in The Structural Engineer, "They showed us many fascinating slides, ranging from molten metal which was still red hot weeks after the event, to 4-inch thick steel plates sheared and bent in the disaster
source: Structural Engineer, September 2002
Sarah Atlas was part of New Jersey's Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue and was one of the first on the scene at Ground Zero with her canine partner Anna. She reported in Penn Arts and Sciences, summer 2002, "Nobody's going to be alive.' Fires burned and molten steel flowed in the pile of ruins still settling beneath her feet."
source: Penn, 2002
The photographs below by Frank Silecchia show chunks of the red hot steel being removed from the North Tower rubble on September 27, 2001
The following photograph has become available, evidently showing the now-solidified metal with entrained material, stored (as of November 2005) in a warehouse in New York. The abundance of iron (as opposed to aluminum) in this material is indicated by the reddish rust observed. When a sample is obtained, a range of characterization techniques will quickly give us information we seek.
source: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1858491.stm
The following photograph is of Cedar Street At Ground Zero, Likely From Collapsed WTC 2 , With 90 West Street Building In Background, 9/11/2001
Here is video clips that provides a eye-witness accounts regarding "red hot" steel, found weeks later during clean-up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3D2myMbQjQ ("Red Hot" steel found weeks after 9/11)
Here is video clips that provides a eye-witness accounts regarding "molten steel" that was described as "lava" by American Heroes.
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3060923273573302287&q (Molten Metal Flows at Ground Zero)