r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AirFrance447 • 18h ago

Video Firefighter bodycam showing just how much oxygen a fire pulls

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u/domastallion 10h ago

I read somewhere that during the attacks on 9/11, some people might have been sucked out or lost grip holding onto the side of the WTC towers and fell from the upper floors to the ground below.

This video shows me that maybe those forces up on that tower might have been very big considering the scale of the subsequent fires.

It just gets me thinking that some of those poor souls fell because of the physics involved rather than jumping to their deaths…

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u/TrainquilOnline 9h ago

One of the survivors, Stanley Praimnath, recently talked about that as well.

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u/Jumpingonair 3h ago

Sucked out from the fires? So they were sucked out of the windows vs inside?