[Zhang Fei]

[You mean to tell me that after the 40th. floor and no more fire proofing building inspectors in NYC allowed construction to continue?]

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The Port Authority of NY & NJ, which built and owned the World Trade Center, is like a state within a state - raw power without accountability. They get all kinds of special dispensations. All of these claims about whether it would have made a difference are debatable, of course, but you gotta wonder.

[jmacusa]

true. State governments and the Feds don’t hold themselves to the same standards they set for others.

I the late ‘70’s I worked for a ceiling contractor who was doing drop ceilings in a VA hospital in the Bronx. Some how or another the VA was not required to have sprinkler systems in it’s VA hospitals.

Can you imagine that?

My boss however was made to fireproof light fixtures in the patient rooms and what he had me do was cut ceiling tiles into strips about four long by six inches wide and I’d box them around each light fixture and push four penny steel nails to secure all the pieces around each light.

What a bitch that was but I was young, made good money at it.