What can we make from the following?

Records indicate that on September 3rd at 5:16 am and on September 5th at 13:52 pm the alarms were set off in B7 apparently by construction.

The West Broadway Subway was only 5 feet from the East wall of B7. This is the area where we find damage to the Subway.

B7 was moved in a Westward direction away from the subway.

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The fire alarm history tape record is read from the bottom to the top. Some entries occur as the result of normal operations, and others are the result of actions taken by operators. The bottom line of the record shows that at 6:05:01 a.m. on September 11, 2001, the fire alarm system completed a normal communications check with the central monitoring station. This check was made every day.
At 6:47:02 a.m., AFA placed WTC 7 in a “TEST: ALL” condition. This was normally done in response to a request from the building manager. Ordinarily, it was requested when maintenance or other testing was being performed on the system, so that any alarms received from the system were considered the result of the maintenance or testing and were ignored. NIST was told by AFA that for systems placed in the TEST condition, alarm signals were not shown on the operator’s display, but records of the alarm were recorded into the history file.
At 6:47:03 a.m., the record includes an explanation of the request to put the system in the TEST condition. Continuing to read from bottom to top, the date and time the system was placed in TEST was recorded. In this case it was 091101 647 (6:47 a.m., September 11, 2001), and the system would have automatically gone back to normal monitoring after eight hours, a system default value, at 091101 1447 (September 11, 2001, 2:47 p.m.). On the next line above, “RIC” identifies the AFA operator; 4210 is a code number for the “PLACE ON TEST” message. CAT:11 indicates the authority of the person requesting the action, identified in the next line as Williams. Records indicated that the building alarm system was often placed on test.
At 10:00:52 a.m., a fire condition [1510 CO TO CLASS E] was indicated in WTC 7. The *T at the right end of that record indicates that the system was in TEST at the time. The alarm record also shows that the fire condition was in AREA 1. NIST has been told by AFA that AREA 1 was not a specific area within the building, but referred to the entire building. In other words, a fire detected in any fire alarm zone in the building would have resulted in the same AREA 1 identification at the monitoring station. The time, 10:00:52 a.m., is shortly after the collapse of WTC 2. NIST could not determine whether this fire alarm was triggered by smoke from a fire or by dust entering smoke detectors. None of the interviews conducted by the Investigation Team contained any mention of an alarm received at the Fire Command Station.

At 2:47:21 p.m. and 2:47:22 p.m. (14:47:21 hr and 14:47:22 hr), at the time the eight hour “TEST: ALL” condition was set to expire, additional actions were recorded that ended in an operator (DYJ) entry to “FULL CLEAR.” Since there were several large fires in the building at this time (Section 5.6), it appears that either the building alarm system was not functioning after about 2:47 p.m. (and probably after
10:01 a.m.), or that the offsite monitoring system or its link to WTC 7 was incapacitated in some way.
A much greater amount of information would have been collected and recorded by the fire alarm equipment within WTC 7. None of that information was recovered from the building systems, which were destroyed in the collapse. Typically, and in the case of WTC 7, specific fire information beyond the fact that a fire condition has been detected is rarely sent to the monitoring site.

The caissons were socketed (seated) in the bedrock, approximately 60 ft below the surface. There were vertical caissons as well as battered (or sloped) caissons to carry the lateral load. Above the caissons were heavy grillages composed of built up steel girders. Grillages transferred loads between the building columns and the caissons.

Here's an interesting snippet from the NIST Report



This is a different timeframe (before 2pm) but are these the same "law enforcement officers"?

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And has anybody ever heard about dogs being killed or kept in the WTC7 basement?

And has anybody ever heard about dogs being killed or kept in the WTC7 basement?

Photos show civilians. I cannot see any officers there. Cannot tell what time this was either.

I think they meant WTC6 basement where Customs was. WTC7 has no known basement. There was no collapse at WTC7 until after 5:20. They probably did enter the WTC6 basement through the WTC7 truck ramp.

I think they meant WTC6 basement where Customs was.

There was a ramp which went below Vesey street under WTC 7. It might have had some basement spaces adjacent to the ramp... but not under the sub station for sure.

It might have had some basement spaces adjacent to the ramp...

Photo images do not show any basement under Vesey Street.

This is pure hog wash!

OSS,

Dog story and magic basement under Vesey Street…

I’m sure that “SanderO” has drawings, photos and reports to support his hunch.

He appears to be the “fish tail”!

Who needs explosives when you have 40 "Al Qaeda" living under Vesey Street with axes

Since you are having a hard time locating all the drawings of the structure and NIST and dogs and so forth... I am not going to look for evidence of anything...

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But there was definitely something dramatic happening in the last hour on the lower floors or to the northwest area of the building before WTC7 fell. 

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks to me that the ConEd Substation is a masonry / block building?

Shouldn't this building or at least the masonry walls have survived, even if the steel above it failed? Any pics of the core of WTC 7 after the collapse? It would be interesting to see how much of this building was left.

Nice one elreb!

Just to clear up an earlier post of mine on this thread:



Edit: Correction for the source of black smoke pointed out at the north face in the three images above. It's apparently from a burning vehicle

Author: Roberto Rabanne

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Does anybody know anything about "Roberto Rabanne's" video/images?

There are many images of the north face of WTC7, a few for the west and south and hardly any of the east.

This cannot be a coincidence.

NIST obtained floor plans for the nine focus floors. However, despite the quality of the drawings and verbal descriptions obtained by NIST, there was some uncertainty regarding the nature of some spaces. Notably, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and American Express occupied all but the east side of the 13th floor, and NIST was unable to find people who recalled the nature of the unoccupied space.

A vault in the middle of the south side contained, among other equipment, three generators to provide emergency power for the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM), located on the 23rd floor. The vault also contained a 1.25 m3 (275 gal) fuel tank for the generators. Approximately 650 m2 (7,000 ft2) of space on the west side of the floor had been vacated (in exchange for space on the 13th floor) in 1997. Employees of the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management said that they were using the vacated space for storage. The people who had occupied the area between the west face and the building core had been moved to the 13th floor, and the 7th floor space had been turned over to Silverstein Properties, which intended to use it for storage. There might have been little combustible material in this space.

The U.S. Secret Service moved into WTC 7 in 1995 and, as of September 11, 2001, occupied all of the 9th floor and all but the east side of the 10th floor. Secret Service staff recollected that there had been no prior tenants, although an undated Citigroup floor plan showed some landscaping.

American Express occupied the southwest sector of the 13th floor. The space was mainly filled with cubicles. There was also a small bank somewhere on the east part of the south face. NIST was unable to obtain any other information regarding the occupancy of the east side of Floor 13.

The northern door.....(beside ramp) provided access to an exterior store room behind the wall, while the southern door accessed a stairwell that connected to the first four floors.

Stairwell B (also referred to as the east stairwell), located slightly east of the geometric center of the building, was vertically continuous from the 47th floor down to the 23rd floor, where there was a horizontal transfer corridor. The transfer allowed use of the floor space above the easternmost elevator lobby and the elevator machinery on the 22nd floor for the elevators below. From there, the stairwell continued down to the 5th floor, where a second transfer corridor led south and east to the third leg of the stairwell (Figure 7–1), which ran from the 5th floor to the 1st floor, where the stair exited the building through the east wall to West Broadway (Figure 7–2). There were also two secondary exits located off the 3rd floor lobby, leading south over Vesey Street to the Promenade and pedestrian bridge shown in Figure 7–3 and exits from the 1st floor lobby onto Vesey Street. 

And the elevators

This would give you a delivery system for fuel/gas to blow up the buildings. Wouldn't of a leave much trace either.

Twin towers has perimeter radiation

You need to link the observed motion to a cause...

What on gods earth are you talking about?

Please be specific.

After seeing the plans you just posted that show the steam and make up air systems that surrounded the entire perimeter of the building, couldn't these system also deliver something more volatile like natural gas or propane (that could be stored in those fuel storage tanks that were all over the 5th floor), that could then be deliberately ignited at just the right moment?

Not likely... propane is very explosive and would have easily ignited uncontrollable... it's also heavier than air and would have to be pressurized to fill... ducts which have lots of openings and electric dampers SPARKS.

couldn't these system also deliver something more volatile like natural gas

Ah, here comes Johnny on the Spot with the debunk.

I'm sure Hauer ran those pressurized gas lines all over the 5th Floor because he had nothing better to do.

The 5th Floor was the bomb.

The *blanks space* on each floor adjacent to the core was likely mechanical equipment bathrooms and riser shafts.

And didn't they want to run a line through the elevators?

I've been watching this video lately.

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East Penthouse:

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The East Penthouse just fell through the building. Literally fell. Fell through those "anonymous" multiple floors on the east face. The coup de grace when the rest of the building went looked like the legs were kicked out from underneath it. More than likely those atriums on the lower floors. And the northwest face looks like it was pushed out and away (as well as the northeast face?).

My 2cents.

Here's Floor 7 (office space) which show the same area

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WTF? What doe the grid represent? The ceiling for the open space below? Looks like only one door in.

Any idea what happens there on 8?

What is that "blank" section just to the right of the core where the stairway is?

The plan is a FURNITURE plan, not an architectural, structural or mechanical plan.

The small grid is probably a cafeteria and it presents tiles...

I told you it's likely mech equipment etc.

The 7th floor, 8th floor and the 9th floors had a generator room.

These are indeed mechanical rooms.

And the 10th, 11th(?),12th and 13th have the same layout. Maybe it's nothing but Im just wondering if it was open plan or walled in. Some of the most crucial columns are in those areas.

At the stairs is smoke exhaust

The rooms on the north side is telephone and electrical

Mid room is A/C 1 and A/C 2

If we are talking about the same room…it should have been fire rated.

Maybe this is where the confusion is.

I'm talking about this entire section:

So am I...