The Official Video: ReThink911 September 2013

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37. Where else COULD it smoulder?

You know how they cook pigs in Hawaii right? Big pit, coals at the bottom, wrap a pig in leaves and then bury it on top of the coals. Cooks all day. The rubble pile resembles that scenario. The concrete rubble is pretty resistant to, and insulates in heat.

Atmosphere is a shitty conductor of heat. That's why you can walk barefoot across the same kind of coals in the pig roasting scenario. The coals won't transfer enough heat to you, fast enough to cook your feet. There were certainly some scorched cars at ground zero, a whole street full of them. But that doesn't account for all the hot, burning rubble. Only about 5 floors burned in the collapse, at the initiation. So you have about 95 ACRES worth of books, desks, papers, carpet, paint, tiles, yadda yadda, easily ignited in that collapse, ready to bake and burn in the rubble pile, and all that insulating concrete to hold it in.

There were also things in the rubble that burn better when water is put on them. Some metals burn under certain circumstances too, even iron. But what else could they do? How do you get in there to spray sodium chloride on metal fires? Or copper? All you have is water. So they used water. Break the fire pyramid by quenching it at close range, removing heat. It isn't the best, but it works. That has consequences too. And it only works as you peel back the rubble layer by layer, meanwhile the fire rages on below.

Fire will burn quite happily, slowly, in an environment like that. The Centralia Pennsylvania coal fire started in 1962. 51 years later, it's still an on-going fire, on-going ecological disaster.