On September 15, 2008 the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) realeased the long awaited report on the collapse of WTC 7. Pat Dollard says, "Today’s report confirms that a fire was, indeed, the cause." I do not agree. “Our take-home message today is that the reason for the collapse of World Trade Center 7 is no longer a mystery,” NIST lead investigator Shyam Sunder told journalists at this morning’s press conference in Gaithersburg, Md. “WTC 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. It did not collapse from explosives or from diesel fuel fires.” I can't personally beleive this. I think that there were no other alternative conclusions for the cause of the collapse and the NIST left this resource as a last resort. Assumingly, every other office building that had caught fire in the history had to have had some sort of office furnishings in it. But these buildings did not collapse nearly within the same time frame as WTC 7. I'm not deeming this an impossibility, but it just seems very far fetched. In the case of WTC 7, there just seem to be too many first case scenarios that had happened. In any case, there could be thousands of possible scenarios that could cause anything. The unknown is infinite. But these were all researched after the fact that the building was fallen. Noone can prove a pinpoint reason why or how the building fell, but to conclude that burning office furnishings caused the building to fall is absoloutly rediculous to me.
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