CCTV/TVCC fire in Beijing (HD version) 北京央视大楼着火 - close-up of fire explosion

The TVCC building, housing the new Mandarin Oriental hotel, was set ablaze by fireworks from CCTV staff during the Yuanxiao holiday 2009. This was shot from the opposite angle of most shots online, and shows the most powerful explosion during the 6 hour fire.

52-minute footage of TVCC fire in full HD (1920x1080) available for license.

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[LifeLibertyNow]

Yeah, those annoying conspiracy theorists who actually think there's something strange about WTC 7 collapsing into its own footprint at free-fall speed, even though the fires in that building were no where near as bad as the fires in the Hotel Mandarin. I mean, seriously, who do they think they are to ask questions based on logic and reason?

[Moreofthesamez]

NIST: "WTC 7 collapsed due to office furniture fires" - idiot!

[jakeyalmighty]

you could fly a plane into my house and it would be taller than the remains of world trade center.

[jakeyalmighty]

We're talking about "building 7" which collapsed vertically in on itself despite not getting hit by plane.

[Andrew Barker]

You do realize your little 9/11 conspiracy tin hat has been debunked by the fact that the trade centers were built poorly and were not structurally to code for the era in which they were built?

[kcazaa]

What the hell does a 747 have to do with anything? A 747 didn't crash into the towers...

[CrownAtGold]

Yeah no thanks! I'll believe a scientifically proven analysis of the incident over your speculative guesstimate.

[ndewingful]

You idiots realize that a Boeing 747 weighs 24.4 tons and carries 48,732 gallons of fuel right? That alone smashing into the side of a building will bring it down.

[MiaRyanne]

Structural steel is structural steel, and welding is welding. Tell me what qualifies this steel *specifically* to be of higher quality than the WTC? You can't, and you won't...so please stop spreading info that you clearly know nothing about. I live in a family with a person who designs steel high-rise buildings...so please enlighten us to your new technology. What a joke. If anything, builders demand cheaper and lighter materials...not better and stronger.

[MiaRyanne]

Just curious why sidewalks built 40 years ago last longer than side-walks built today. Sorry, but they built better and higher quality buildings back then...by far. Not even arguable. The WTC tower were brought down, they didn't collapse...it had nothing to do with how they were built. Any building would collapse when men decide to implode it.

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