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by fjsolwmv 2815 days ago
Steel and concrete buildings need a huge amount of time to get fires spread enough and hot enough to collapse, except in freak catastrophes like jet plane crashes.
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It's a well known and not uncommon failure mode:

https://youtu.be/8XMTALBYRNA?t=40

https://youtu.be/LB9wwTmrMYA?t=15

Fireproofing steel beams has been practiced since the 1950s. (https://www.asbestos.com/products/fireproofing-fire-preventi...)