Office Fires: How do they work?

Watch in slow motion as a 47-story steel framed building collapses from office fires. Newly released video (Jan 2011) by National Institute of Standards and Technology following Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

NIST: The building "collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishes. It did not collapse from explosives or from fuel-oil fires."

Catherine Fletcher - FOIA Officer, NIST: "NIST did not test for the presence of explosive residue"

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