Comments on: The towering inferno: foreshadowed

By: Susanamantha

Susanamantha — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 22:29:12 +0000

Yet it is the dream of liberals to have us all coralled in such places, no doubt in walled cities, all the better to control you, my dears.

By: Big Maq

Big Maq — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 22:28:51 +0000

Is it only me that stuff like this is remindful of Flint and its water?

By: y81

y81 — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 22:09:44 +0000

Here is an example of what I mean. I remember this fire. (One of the dead was a secretary in my office.) It was in a low-income high-rise building, and several people died, but nothing like the London scene. The building itself still operates.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/23/nyregion/3-jump-to-death-and-4-others-die-in-harlem-apartment-tower-blaze.html?pagewanted=all

By: y81

y81 — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:16:44 +0000

There is something very wrong with that building. There are fires in New York City apartment buildings all the time, and they don’t envelop the whole building like that. It’s not just sprinklers, either: the insulation between floors is supposed to retard fire for hours.

Even with the World Trade Center, you will recall, the fire was mostly confined to the impact floors. If the building had not collapsed due to the steel girders melting, it would have taken hours and hours to spread upward through the building, in which time the firemen (who were already on the impact floors when the collapse happened) would hopefully have brought it under control.

I don’t know what kind of building codes they have in England, but not good ones.

By: Sgt. Mom

Sgt. Mom — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 19:18:43 +0000

That it spread so fast – that is the horrific part.
And that people were told to shelter in their apartments and wait for rescue.

Events like this are why I will never live in a high-rise, or stay in one, either. And if I am ever in one which catches fire, I will be out of there so fast I will make Flo-Jo look like a turtle in comparison.