Professor of Fire Safety Engineering Never Expected WTC to Collapse

BBC:

Jose Torero, professor of fire safety engineering at the University of Edinburgh, conducted the experiment on a 24-storey tower block in Dalmarnock.

He also hopes it will shed light on why the Twin Towers collapsed on 9/11.

Prof Torero said he believed the World Trade Centre in New York should have "withstood burnout" after it was hit.

The collapse of the towers in September 2001, after they were hit by hijacked aircraft, resulted in the deaths of almost 2,800 workers and 350 firefighters and emergency workers.

Prof Torero said: "It didn't even cross my mind the buildings would collapse.

"From my perspective, those buildings were designed to last structurally for between three to four hours, enough time to get everyone out who had survived.

via "9/11 truthlings watch", who has more background on Professor Torero.

As far as the damage from the "airplane" attacks-- it is hard to see how something that completely disintegrates inside the building (according to NIST even) could have done that much structural damage to the tower. Thus, the key question is how the FIRE could have brought down the towers the way they came down.

Of course, mere fires couldn't have done it.