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#TOWER OF INFERNO TORRENT TORRENT#

Situated on the corner of Market Street and Geary Street, the Glass Tower was meant to kick start a financial revival in the city’s Union Square district. Giddings was the first victim of the Glass Tower, succumbing to his injuries a short while after arriving at hospital.

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He was just too late Roberts reported that the guard was saved but Will Giddings took the full brunt of the fire that blew through the open doorway. Anticipating the backdraft that would follow if the door was opened, Giddings dove towards the security guard. As Roberts and Giddings examined the junction box just along from the storage room, Giddings spotted the smoke coursing under the storage room door. It was a security guard who spotted the fire that had begun in the storage room on floor 81. Roberts later confirmed that he and Giddings began working their way up the Tower inspecting key junction boxes as the dignitaries gathered on the Tower steps to begin the inauguration ceremony at 7.00pm. Pic 1 - The location of the Glass Tower in the heart of the Union Square district Upon inspection Roberts discovered that the wiring inside was well below the standard he had requested in his original specifications. A junction box in the Tower’s basement power room had blown. The Tower’s Chief Engineer John Callahan had confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle just days after the disaster that both he, Principal Architect Doug Roberts and the Clerk of Works Will Giddings had discovered the defective wiring at around lunchtime on the 14 th December. What he told the gathered press merely confirmed the rumours that were already circulating the fire was a result of faulty wiring throughout the Glass Tower. The press conference at San Francisco City Hall on Wednesday morning gave a platform for Lead Fire Investigator Matthew Abbott to share his first report following two weeks of thorough inspections of the building and initial interviews with those caught up in the events on 14 th December. On 14 th December the naysayers got their answer. Yet it was still a mystery how the building came in so far under budget and seemingly completed to standard. With the company eyeing up the lucrative national urban renewal contract, some in the industry questioned whether such frugality was aimed directly at the government body chosen to award the contract. With the estimated budget closer to $180million many were left stupefied when Duncan Enterprise released their final estimated construction total five days before the buildings inauguration.

The firefighter hanging precariously from the glass elevator as the helicopter airlifts them to street level from nearly a hundred stories above, with only O'Hallorhan to hold his hand the entire way down needless to say, it's an immense relief when he and the remaining passengers are finally lowered to safety.At a cost of $110million dollars and with a construction time of 3 years and 4 months, the Glass Tower broke more than just the world’s tallest structure record.

#TOWER OF INFERNO TORRENT TORRENT#

The violent torrent of water that floods the promenade room after the water tanks above are detonated in a last-ditch effort to snuff out the inferno many of those not crushed by falling debris or pummeled by the sheer force of the wave are instead washed clean through the windows to plummet to their deaths, just before the burst tanks finally put down the inferno.The loss of the breeches' buoy, during which a panicking Simmons commandeers the buoy to save his own hide when his turn on has not yet come The buoy begins its descent just as several men pile on trying to force Simmons off he sends each of them falling to their deaths, purely for his own sake, only to himself die when the buoy is finally detached by an explosion.Still Harsher in Hindsight (as with much of the rest of the movie) after 9/11. The triage ward toward the end - a seemingly endless stream of broken and dead firefighters.A number of YouTube commenters compared this scene to footage of people jumping off the World Trade Center on 9/11. Choking on smoke, she breaks the window with a chair, the fresh air causing a backdraft. Bigelow running straight into the blazing inferno with nothing more then a wet towel for protection.Look carefully, and you'll notice that this is the same elevator from the scene described above, as evidenced by what can be seen inside it: a massive pile of burning human bodies. A few moments later in the movie, an elevator opens to the party room and a burning man staggers out, who dies in mere seconds. This actually gets even more horrible.It doesn't end well, as the car moves too fast for the firefighters to spray it. The ghastly results of a bunch of people from the party panicking and trying to take the main elevator down past the fire floors.

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