OT: World Trade crash...

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Tue Sep 11 14:04:42 2001

>Wow, I haven't seen that movie forever. I don't recall any water
>tanks. was that movie based, even loosely, on anything real?

        I don't know how much basis in reality the problems in that
movie had, but I do know this:

        1) I've seen many more referrals to large water tanks built
into skyscrapers
        2) it must be a nightmare to try and fight any kind of large
fire in those types of buildings

        As for the water tanks in the movie, if I remember correctly
they really didn't come into the story until towards the end and I
believe that Steve McQueen does end up rupturing them so that the
water spills down the building into the fire.

        Jeff
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