Slide #60 - "Foreknowledge of Collapse" Orientation

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Gage's Final Point for 7 World Trade

With these slides, Richard Gage presents the final point in his argument that 7 World Trade was a controlled demolition, and it is a whopper. Gage thinks that foreknowledge of 7's collapse is evidence that it was indeed a controlled demolition.

It is true that many people know that an actual controlled demolition is going to happen before it happens. But can suspicions that 7 World Trade be considered true foreknowledge of that event?

Daniel Nigro

Daniel Nigro was the fire official who decided to establish a collapse zone around 7 World Trade. Here's his letter describing this decision:

Regarding WTC 7: The long-awaited US Government NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) report on the collapse of WTC 7 is due to be published at the end of this year (although it has been delayed already a few times [ adding fuel to the conspiracy theorists fires!]). That report should explain the cause and mechanics of the collapse in great detail. Early on the afternoon of September 11th 2001, following the collapse of WTC 1 & 2, I feared a collapse of WTC 7 (as did many on my staff).

The reasons are as follows:

1. Although prior to that day high-rise structures had never collapsed, The collapse of WTC 1 & 2 showed that certain high-rise structures subjected to damage from impact and from fire will collapse.
2. The collapse of WTC 1 damaged portions of the lower floors of WTC 7.
3. WTC 7, we knew, was built on a small number of large columns providing an open Atrium on the lower levels.
4. numerous fires on many floors of WTC 7 burned without sufficient water supply to attack them.

For these reasons I made the decision (without consulting the owner, the mayor or anyone else - as ranking fire officer, that decision was my responsibility) to clear a collapse zone surrounding the building and to stop all activity within that zone. Approximately three hours after that order was given, WTC 7 collapsed.

Conspiracy theories abound and I believe firmly that all of them are without merit.

Regards, Dan Nigro
Chief of Department FDNY (retired)

I don't understand how there can be any questions of why people thought 7 World Trade might fall down after reading Chief Nigro's letter. He made the call, and the decision with the evidence Nigro based it on was circulated throughout the first responders. Others could see for themselves the threat that 7 World Trade posed. And in the confusion of the day, some reports of the imminent demise of 7 became reports that 7 had already fallen, to the embarrassment of at least one BBC reporter who didn't know the building by sight.

Gage's Final Point Denied

Therefore, Gage's final point plays out to nothing more than a sinister implication. There is nothing remotely unusual about accounts of "foreknowledge" of the impending collapse of 7 World Trade. Such accounts are of no use to someone trying to prove the collapse a controlled demolition.

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