On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:28:06 +0000, Larry wrote:

Before 9/11/2001, not a single steel reinforce building every collapsed
from a fire, even fires that went on for days consuming the whole building!

That is not true. Steel frames collapse in building fires all the
time. Additionally, any number of highway overpass bridges have been
structurally damaged by tanker truck fires weakening the steel.

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:50:28 -0500, wrote:

Had one just a couple of years ago on I-95 in Connecticut. Brand new bridge,
too. The tanker truck fire melted the structure and the whole mess had to be
torn out and built from scratch again.

Yes, and there was another one in Westchester County near Yonkers.