Windsor Tower in Madrid, Spain burned for 20+ hours and never collapsed. No steel frame structure has ever collapsed due to fire, before or after 9/11. On 9/11, 3 collapsed, due to "structural failure from fires".

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[–]package 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

... the windsor tower was ~4x shorter than the world trade center towers and hadn't suffered an impact from a 747 and hadn't been doused in burning jet fuel at that impact site and wasn't within 200 feet of an equally sized building that had just collapsed

[–]Zapped 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Some people don't understand the massive size of the WTC towers. They took up, not just city blocks, but New York City blocks.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I was in them several times, even on the roof (I have photos). I art directed a Nickelodeon commercial right across the street from them. I lived there for years and knew the area well enough. They were HUGE buildings, but those weren't normal Manhattan city blocks, like north of Houston. The southern island tip is a mess of streets.