Reply #168: How do you know that *all* other office fires...

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...have reached top layer peak temperatures significantly lower than 1100C? Isn't your reference set too large? Why not restrict the comparison fires taking place on very large office floors that spread quickly on vast areas owing to the use of volatile accelerants and that were very well ventilated? Is any one of these factors irrelevant? Why do these parameters seem to make so much difference in fire dynamics models? Also, what is wrong with NIST's full scale burning tests? Shouldn't they provide relevant empirical data?