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The planes which crashed into the twin towers exploded on impact unleashing
a massive fireball which blazed through the building. Temperatures reached
thousands of degrees as the fuel from the full tanks in the planes burned.
Anybody above the point of impact was doomed. Most of those people working
below managed to escape down the stairs. As they were coming down hundreds
of rescuers were coming up. Nobody could have envisaged what was going
to happen next. The temperatures got so high that the steel supports crumpled causing
the building to fall down like a pack of cards. New York's fire department
suffered hundreds of losses at that moment. With over a million tonnes
of rubble collapsing, very few survived.
Furthermore, many bodies in the rubble will have vaporised into nothing.
Their bodies or body parts will never be discovered. Mayor Giuliani gave
a wooden urn with ashes from the rubble to the families of all the people
who were lost. Death certificates have been issued to the families even
though the bodies of their loved ones have not been discovered and are
likely never to be found. | ![]() Bush Bin Laden Powell |