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I include some video that show it wasn't a 6-second free fall in the post I link to. This is one of the claims by truthers, that is fell in 6-seconds. This is a lie. Also, there were over 15,000 gallons (probably more like 25,000 gallons) of fuel in the building to keep it running in case there was a massive power failure in the New York area. This building was the emergency gathering point for NY. Steve Spak discusses this in his interview, and I respond to a questioner (posted in the link) thusly who asks a similar question (again, I recommend going through this post thoroughly): Actually, building seven was hit by a massive amount of debris from Tower 1 or 2 (I will look into which tower when I get the National Geographic DVD, since that has the best shots of falling debris I have seen yet). What you may not know is that building 7 housed the city's emergency command post. The building was designed to remain operational if power were to be lost. How was this building designed to keep running if power were to go out? This is the part we don't hear too much about:

...There were a number of fuel tanks throughout the building that may have supplied fuel to the fires for up to seven hours. In addition to smaller "day tanks" on each floor, two 6,000-gallon tanks in the basement fed most of the generators in the building..... Two generators, located on the fifth floor, were connected to the fuel tanks in the basement via a pressurized line. Says Sunder: "Our working hypothesis is that this pressurized line was supplying fuel [to the fire] for a long period of time”…. (p. 56) ….WTC 7 was built to straddle a Con Edison electrical substation. That required an unusual design in which a number of columns were engineered to carry exceptionally large loads, roughly 2,000 square feet of floor area for each floor. “What our preliminary analysis has shown is that if you take out just one column on one of the lower floors,” Sunder notes, “it could cause a vertical progression of collapse so that the entire section comes down.” (p. 55) (Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts)