Reply #101: Were these explosions the result of bombs?

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http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_130172033.html

Multiple Explosions Reported At Fire In Modesto

(CBS 13) MODESTO Fire crews in Stanislaus County have knocked down a fire which sparked multiple explosions.

The fire was in Modesto near Legion Park Drive and South Santa Cruz Way. The Modesto fire department says the fire burned a detached garage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Hertfordshire_Oil_Storage_Terminal_fire

The first and largest explosion occurred at 06:03 UTC near container 912. From all accounts, it seems to have been an unconfined vapour cloud explosion. An inversion layer permitted people to hear it from a hundred miles (160 km) away; there are reports it was heard as far away as France and the Netherlands<1>. The British Geological Survey monitored the event, which measured 2.4 on the Richter scale<2>. People were woken in their beds even in South London. Subsequent explosions occurred at 06:27 and 06:28. Witnesses observed flames hundreds of feet high from many miles away, with the smoke cloud visible from space, and as far north as Lincolnshire.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/4603118/detail.html

BOSTON -- Fire officials responded to a number of manhole explosions in Cambridge Monday.

NewsCenter 5's Rhondella Richardson reported that commuters and business owners were being asked to stay out of the Central Square area after a fire broke out in a manhole near the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Douglas Street.

Witnesses reported hearing popping noises near other manholes in the area. Police closed down several streets in the area, and traffic was at a standstill.

http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2006/06/12/daily24.html

In Valero Energy Corp.'s third refinery fire in the last 30 days, the oil refining and marketing company said Wednesday there was an explosion in one of the units at the Jean Gaulin refinery in Quebec.

Workers reported the fire earlier Wednesday at the 215,000 barrel-per-day Ultramar Inc. refinery. Ultramar's emergency response team and the City of Levis' fire prevention department quickly contained the fire. No injuries were reported and employees since have returned to work. The refinery employs 490 individuals.

http://chicagoredstreak.com/output/news/fire16.html

Two employees of a company that builds automation systems for the automotive industry were hospitalized after a propane tank leaked and then ignited Friday morning in Crystal Lake.

A propane tank started leaking on the back of a forklift truck about 10 a.m. at the Eisenmann Corp., according to Craig Benner, a spokesman for the company.

The tank ignited, according to preliminary reports, and two workers were hurt, with non-life-threatening injuries, according to Benner.

Now all of those are just from the first page and a half of Googling explosions reported in fires. I got close to ten million hits on those words. Seeing that explosions are a common experience to a building fire in general, it is not surprising to find that there were all kinds of explosions of flammable materials in the WTC towers (including the oft-mentioned, oft-discount tanks of diesel fuel in WTC 7).

The extraordinary claim is that the explosions were the result of bombs.

Molten metal found weeks later is not evidence of bombs. It is evidence of extreme temperatures under the rubble of two one-hundred-story buildings.

Molten metal dripping from WTC 2 before its collapse is not evidence of a bomb. It is evidence of extreme temperature, and the way these temperatures were achieved has been tested and documented by the NIST study.

The pulverization of the concrete is not evidence of bombs. It is evidence of the incredible forces unleashed by the upper third of these buildings plummeting to the ground through the rest of the building.

The squibs are not evidence of bombs. Stop looking at freezeframes, which are misleading you. Watch the actual collapse of the buildings in real-time - not slow motion. You will see the "squibs" are not energetically expanding, but are simply being propelled out of the building by nothing more that the rush of air in front of the collapsing section of the building. It is not an explosion. It is simple venting.

Yes, it is.

If all the explosions happened in the last five seconds, they would make too much noise
and be too obvious. Spreading them out over time hurts the credibility of the accounts.

Petgoat, you obviously recognize how the fact of haphazard explosions weakens the case for controlled demolition. However, you accept this weakness by saying that the designers of the plot must have built this weakness in, that even this element of the 9/11 attack was meticulously planned. This is the same kind of logic creationism uses to say that the Devil put all those fossils in the ground to make the Earth look that old.