Oakland Bridge on Fire April 29 2007

[WilliamAztech]

this is obviously fake, it's all cgi effects, there is no bridge, the government is behind it! hide your children hide your wives!

[superjump01]

@WilliamAztech hide your husbands too cause they rapin everybody out here.

[Uncle5cary]

Concrete is strong in compression. It does add strength to the span. The video of the bridge after the fire shows one span fell down. The span itself remained intact. Where is the cloud of dust and tiny pieces of concrete?

[punxsutawneybarney]

@Uncle5cary Note also there was no progressive collapse. The top deck fell, but the lower one did not.

[LOUDNESSrocks]

PART 2/ Tne Aon Tower (formerly the headquarters of First Interstate Bank) wiithstood the fire because only material such as paper, wood and furnishings, ect were involved. the 5 gutted floors have been rebuilt, and all you can tell about the fire by currently looking at the building, is that the window framing around the 12 thrugh 16 floors looks newer then the rest of the building.....YES FUEL FIRES ARE VERY SUPER-HOT (20,000 degrees farenheight, and sometimes more!!)

[LOUDNESSrocks]

Fuel and gasoline fires burn 10 times hotter then paper or wood fires......HOT ENOUGH TO MELT STEEL! Lets take a look here....a huge tanker truck crashes and catches fire under this Steel-plate-girder bridge, melting it ...the planes that hit The World Trade Center towers over 60,000 gallons of jet fuel heated the tower's support collumns, causing them to "snap" bringing down BOTH towers, but look at this case...In 1988 a fire in the 62-story Aon Tower in Los Angelas Gutted 5 floors 12 thru 16

[destydan]

Hey guys... ask yourself this... how safe wld you feel working in a building 110 storreys high made not of a reinforced steel STRUCTURE, but of steel reinforced concrete? .... mmm??? theres a difference, steel structures are structures made of steel, with concrete floors & facades built around more structure. Steel reinforced concrete, is concrete set around poles of steel, ofcourse joint to beams & pillars, but on a much smaller scale than that of a fucking 110 storey building.. Use some logic!

[drhotert]

Haha, you stupid morons! :D

That is STEEL REINFORCED CONCRETE! The steel is in there to pick up the TRACTION FORCES and does NOT in anyway carry the structure.

Once you remove the concrete (let's say buy running an exploding truck against it) there is nothing that would prevent the structure from collapsing!

Once again: the steel in reinforced concrete DOES NOT carry anything in the first place!

Go to school and learn something you dumbed down sheeps! :D

[ShredaSpud]

There is another video of a bridge fire on a series called "RealTV" that ran in the 1990s that featured a tanker truck running into a bridge support and catching fire. As in this case, the truck fire sufficiently heated the bridge support girders to cause them to weaken and fail, leading to ultimate collapse. This is not some radical engineering feat, but rather chemistry and physics at work.

9/11 conspiracy nuts bring the bile up to the back of my neck...

[HeadLessMunkees]

Was GWB Driving de rig?

Twoof Kooks are shutin down there accounts like never before.

[psyhobill5150]

911 conspiracy theory kooks should watch this

[COMMANDERPLOP]

the force of the explosion caused the collapse, not the fire

[k3nd00d]

So a tanker hits part of the under structure and there is an explosion causing concusive force damage. WHere is the melted or highly weakened steel here?

[onaplain999]

uh the freeway, made of concrete reinforced heavily with steel, fell. from fuel.

[k3nd00d]

Wrong. The Fuel fire did NOT cause the collapse. Get a freakin' clue!

[jizzmonger]

Yes it did.

The fuel heated the steel and caused it to yield flunky.

[realistate]

Where's the truck?

[isafilms]

it is a two story bridge, truck burst in flame on first level, fire from beneath melted the bridge above causing the collapse

[realistate]

hmm, melting freeways, interesting. So where's the truck?

[word360]

Probably crushed under the collapsed section of the bridge.

[Teaclinton13]

Wow! Unbelievable. I never ride pass and see anything. When I do, camera is somewhere else.

[RedNeckPossie]

Wow, I cannot believe that after 911 people still do not know that gasoline, diesel fuel, and kerosene cannot MELT steel. It can weaken, cause to sag, or buckle, but not MELT. Ever melted a steel or aluminum pan on your camping stove? See any melted car engines lately?

[jimbotheproducer001]

most of USA people are sleeping beauties. One kiss is not enough!!!!

[Coastergeekperson04]

Yeah, there has to be a fire to melt it, as i know, and a big one too.

I was there the next day it was sorta strange.

[Whammo1963]

The steel melted, but it did not liquify.

[Girlwatcher1983]

Sabotaged? Was this really a Gasoline Truck Accident?

Wheels fly off loaded gasoline near disaster avoid in San Francisco near Golden Gate Bridge. Is this incident related to this fire or what? Read articles in San Francisco Chronicle about the other fuel truck accident in the bay area in less than a week.

Read about it on Matier and Ross page at sfgate com

[onaplain999]

wow...so whats the government conspiracy here? make bad traffic?

[wartonchan]

Lmao "The whole fucking freeway just fell down!"

[CASTRER]

Well the truth is out now.Profesor Arnie with a phd in something said "MELTED""MELTED" ok now all together say hip hip hooray!!!!!!!

[amarrao95]

ghostridin..gone bad

[nodeniro]

George Bush caused this mess.

[dingding3109]

Next Youll Blame Clinton for your Problems

[Arninetyes]

No! No! NO! This CANNOT BE TRUE! Steel can't melt from a gasoline fire! All the Rosie experts proved that with the WTC. It MUST be yet another conspiracy by the evil Bush Administration. Obviously, they blew up the bridge to punish the Bay Area for being liberal, then covered it up by crashing a gasoline tanker. Rosie - where are you? Take up the call! It was another Bush conspiracy!

[dingding3109]

Next it will be a Clinton Conspiracy

[chrstsldr]

Arninetyes ...the following quotes come from the official gov documents re: wtc collapse, not Rosie

"...In no instance did NIST report that steel in the WTC towers melted due to the fires..."

wtc(dot)nist(dot)gov/pubs/fact­sheets/faqs_8_2006.htm

Finding 8: All four test assemblies supported their full design load under standard fire conditions for two hours without collapse." (NCSTAR 1-6 page lxxii, para5)

maybe you don't know all you ought to...?

[Zile77]

Get ready for scenes like this if Democrats bring the troops home from Iraq. A vote for democrats is a vote for terrorism! That's not a scare tactic either. Al Qaida is just waiting and praying to Allah that Democrats get back into the White House so they can take America over with Islam. Vote democrat and you deserve the disasters and deaths that follow.

[jam1productions]

pretty crazy stuff! Lucky it dont affect my commute in San Jose:)!

[kauaiancowboy]

This is what happens when tanker truck drivers decide to ghost ride it in oakland.

[ibleedbeats]

he got hella stupid for sure.

[lazboi15]

The crazy thing is that no one was killed!

[Coastergeekperson04]

There was no one there, lol, on the most busiest freeway, too.

[scooter21122112]

This bridge fell, from melted steel. Conspiracy 911 freaks can eat their words. ANd their "scientists" that said that fire cant melt steel. So Rosy eat that!!

[viewer2342]

Holy smoke...