China TV admits it burned down new HQ with illegal fireworks display

[Coventina]

Source: The Telegraph

China Central Television, the official broadcasting mouthpiece of the Communist Party, was forced to admit it burned down part of its hallmark new headquarters building with an illegal fireworks display.

One fireman died and six others were injured in the blaze which engulfed part of the complex on Monday night, sending dramatic flames shooting into the sky over Beijing.

The 30-storey building, which was to have housed a theatre, studios and a five-star Mandarin Oriental Hotel when it opened later this year, was almost completely destroyed by the blaze, which took six hours to extinguish.

Bystanders reported immediately that it seemed to have been set off by fireworks, and the fire brigade confirmed that CCTV itself had hosted a fireworks display for staff on site.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4579647/China-TV-admits-it-burned-down-new-HQ-with-illegal-fireworks-display.html

[GodlessBiker]

1. Holy crap! Someone will get the death penalty for this.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. So they have moranic tv stations too....

[prolesunited]

3. Way worse that dropping turkeys from a plane

[JohnyCanuck]

4. It could have been worse.

It could have completely collapsed straight down, at freefall speed and into its own footprint.

[pjt7]

5. I just hope intelligent folks who might be afraid to believe 9/11

was a fraud, can take a honest look at how intense & long those fires burned & see the China building never collapsed. Let alone pancaked.

Compare that to WTC7 fires & I hope some light bulbs turn "ON".

[Theobald]

7. No light bulb going off here.

The China TV building structural integrity was not comprimised by either airplanes or the collapsing of the towers so comparing the two events is inappropriate. Also, the building was not occupied yet and so did not have as much combustible material with which to increase the intensity of the fire.

[pjt7]

8. Check out the footage

Fires were 10X the force of WTC7.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avBkDtVCNng&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/09/cctv-building-on-fire-ico_n_165186.html

& the building is still standing~

.. maybe having the largest CIA field office outside of Langley & the SEC in WTC7, made it more likely to pancake:loveya:

[Theobald]

10. I saw the video, it's pretty amazing and looks

much worse than the 9/11 fires, but you can't determine all the variables including intensity of heat, duration of heat, type of insulation, type of construction, etc. without doing some forensic engineering. For instance the fire can burn up all the combustibles on one floor and move to the next floor without getting hot enough, long enough, to do enough damage to the structural integrity of the building needed to bring it down. Looking at flames of the China fire and determining that it was 10x the force of the 9/11 fire is impossible. It looks worse, but looks can be deceiving.

[tanyev]

6. Oops.

[nc4bo]

9. How does a huge building like this go totally up in flames like it did?

CNN showed video and I swear it appeared that every window from ground to sky was filled with bright yellow/orange flames. It was like the entire hotel was constructed of paper and cardboard.

:wtf:

I have questions and doubt I'll ever get a truthful answer to any of them.

What kind of construction materials were used in this building? Where was the sprinkler system? Why did it burn so completely?

[GodlessBiker]

11. It was made of paper? Like those dragons at New Year's celebrations?