Engineers Suspect Diesel Fuel in Collapse of 7 World Trade Center: “Amost lost in the chaos of the collapse of the
World Trade Center is a mystery that
under normal circumstances would probably have
captured the attention of the city and the world.
That mystery is the collapse of a nearby 47-story,
two-million-square-foot building seven hours after
flaming debris from the towers rained down on it,
igniting what became an out-of-control fire
…As engineers and scientists struggle to explain the
collapse of 7 World Trade Center, they have
begun considering whether a type of fuel that was inside the building all along
created intensely hot fires like those in the towers: diesel fuel, thousands of
gallons of it, intended to run electricity generators in a power failure.” NY Times
