2/20/2005: Madrid building fire

Last Sunday one of Madrid's largest buildings suffered a huge and amazing fire and was destroyed. The images from it are remarkable.

Lurker mundofer, who was also the first to suggest some images from the terrorist attack there last year, suggested a set from this event. (Thank you!) Luckily, there were NO fatalities in this fire, and it was not a terrorist event, just a simple short circuit.





Several very striking photo albums here, here,
here and here.

Mundofer also notes: "Though the fire ran from top to bottom, the cement core didn't went down and they must destroy it in a step by step process. They cant do it with a controlled explosion because there are three metro lines and one train line in the underground and the falling of the building would destroy them."

Amazing fotos !!! I read some where that it is to dangerous to have workers go into the remaining burned out building , so they were talking about useing some kind of destructo-bot hung from cranes or helocopters . Every body look around and see if you can dig up any pics of these destructo-bots.

Madrid Fire

Great Pictures!! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks also to everyone for all of the pictures and also for the funny comments. I recently found this site & have been going thru the archives. Often I am laughing at all the great comments.

Sandra77

WOW! Now that's a fire........ Amazing how there was so much destruction to property and no lives lost.
I can't help but wonder if the outcome would have been different had the fire started on the lower part of the structure.
Smores, anyone?

Those are some great pics!
I heard marshmellow companies made a lot of profit that that day. Mmm, melted marshmellows...

Robots photographs

Quote:

Originally Posted by capnhowdy I can't help but wonder if the outcome would have been different had the fire started on the lower part of the structure. Smores, anyone?

Was it under construction or is that crane on a different building?

Oh...and welcome to the Cellar, Sandy.

[quote=xoxoxoBruce]Was it under construction or is that crane on a different building?

the crane is in top of the building. They were refurbishing it because it was old (from 1973) and they were washing it up.

One of the threats of the fire was that the crane could have fallen. Fortunatelly it didn't.

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Ưu điểm của kính dán an toàn là khả năng chống vỡ tốt hơn so với kính thủy, màu sắc đa dạng và rẻ tiền hơn so với kính màu phun sơn.
Nhược điểm của kính dán an toàn là lớp keo dán giữa hai lớp kính dễ bị ố màu nếu không cẩn thận để ngấm nước hoặc bị rạn nứt sau thời gian sử dụng lâu ngày. Hơn nữa, trừ phi kính dán an toàn được sản xuất bằng hai lớp kính cường lực ép vào nhau, thì khả năng chịu nhiệt mới tốt, với loại kính dán cường lực an toàn này giá thành sẽ đội lên cao nhất dẫn đến tốn kém không cần thiết.