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Reconstructing the Fires That Brought Down WTC 1, 2 and 7

August 4, 2021
Richard G. Gann
Everyone has a story about where they were when they heard about the disaster universally called “9/11.” Mine begins in Ottawa, Canada. As chance would have it, I was there for a meeting of the Fire Safety Engineering Subcommittee of the International Organization for Standardization. One of the