Lest you think that this FLIR camera is not calibrated right... on the video itself the FLIR camera reads a "Background Temperature" of 23 degrees Celsius which is about 73.4 degrees Fahrenheit. I looked up online the historical weather data from NYC on September 11th, 2001 and it shows that the mean temperature was a nice 72 degrees Fahrenheit (min 64 / max 81) which fits almost exactly with the reading on the FLIR camera.
Another piece of evidence also points to the fact that the fires weren't hot enough to cause the buildings global collapses. I've gotten the FDNY Port Authority Radio Recordings from 9:30-10am and at about 9:50 am this was recorded (7 mins into the video):
Battalion 7 Chief: "Battalion 7 .... Ladder 15, we've got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines. Radio that, 78th floor numerous 10-45 code ones."
Sounds to me like Battalion 7's Chief saw that the "two isolated pockets of fire" were maintainable if they only needed two lines to fight it.
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