Reply #67: so the fire was consistant throughout?

[uncle ray]

probably not. one part of the building could be burning very differently thatn some other part of the building. how the smoked looked to you is not an accurate indicator of what was going on.

to use your campfire analogy, you can throw water on half the fire, theres gonna be a lot of smoke and steam, but the other half of the fire will burn on. not that it even applies in any way, nobody dumped water on this fire, at least not any appreciable amount. tire fires have thick black plumes of smoke, but you would be wrong to think it was a weak fire.

yes there are regulations governing fire safety, but offices are not fireproof, they are fire RESISTANT, once exposed to enough heat, just about anything will burn.

if things were so rosy up there, where are the videos of firemen waving out the holes in the building? according to you they practically had the fire out before the explosives went off, right?