Beijing CCTV Annex Fire - Mandarin Oriental Hotel

Beijing CCTV Annex Fire - Mandarin Oriental Hotel Fire - 9 Feb 2009 approx. 9:06pm
Note: The fire is in the building immediately next to the new CCTV HQ which will be the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. It is NOT the CCTV HQ building.

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Travel & Events

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• Beijing
• CCTV
• Annex
• Fire
• Mandarin
• Oriental
• Hotel

[ismhmr]

All three towers of The World trade center was made with reinforced concrete too. Not only steel. Second, there is a difference between a bridge, many of which have had collapses for many different reasons, and the world trade center (being the first 3 in history to suffer a complete collapse.) 3rd, how about the few thousand Architects and Engineers who just had a conference in CA who think 9/11 was an inside job and want a new investigation. Are you still clinging to your denier nonsense?

[Snurdgerbly]

It looks to have burned completely, but did it fall down?

[enunna]

I live in Beijing. They building is being repaired and will reopen. There was very little damage to the steel girders despite the massive inferno.

[annuity100]

@towely That does not explain why the undamaged floors gave way. Ten floors below where the plane hit those floors were completely undamaged and structurally sound. The fires around the impact points could well have weakened the steel, even enough to the point of collapse, but not a complete uniform collapse of all undamaged floors. Plus if it did fail through fire it would have failed at one single point not the whole floor. Worst case the top would have tipped over and fallen off, that's it.

[annuity100]

@gravityjunkie47 It was bonfire night by the looks of it or some festival where they set off fire works anyway. When the cameraman turns you see one going off in the sky. Probably what explains how the fire started in the first place, stray rocket maybe.

[taylerbill115]

@ismhmr AMEN

[gravityjunkie47]

One thing that is interesting is the sounds of explosions from this fire. Anyone have any ideas about those?

[Mrasianpopmusic]

it never fall down, check other videos to find out

[malcomino]

bin laden was seen around the cctv building on that day with a lighter in his hands, that's the smoking gun we were looking for, china could have declared war to some arab country

[student135]

Even if 100foot of the world trade centre magically dissappeared.

The tower wouldn't have collapsed the way it is.

Take some physics , Dumb DUmb Dumb Dumb

and chemistry.

and math

and just school in general

[towely]

@TruRevolution

Listen genius, steel melts around 2800 degrees but steel cables start to fail at 800 and steel beams and columns will start to lose strength and fail around 1200. It doesn't have to completely melt to lose it's ability to support weight. That and it expands around 7-9 inches per 100ft per 100 degrees increase which can push and cause huge strains on anything the steel beam is connected to.

[ismhmr]

@towely The Empire state building was also a steel structure, and was hit by a bomber in the early part of the last century. But whatever, you don't seem to comprehend anything. According to the official 9/11 report the fire weakened the steel, not the impact. Second, building 7 just collapsed on itself, and according to the NIST report it was again due to fires weakening the steel. I think you should do a little bit more research before you open your mouth because you feel offended.