Atlanta Overpass Fire Shuts Down Major Freeway For Months, Terror Cover Up?

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Was the Atlanta overpass fire or more correctly the fire under a terror attack cover up ? What amazed me was how one clean complete section of highway collapses from 'a' fire that homeless crack addict/s started. Flammable but not combustible construction debris & supplies apparently fueled a fire that caused a complete section of highway to fall or drop down almost perfectly. Debris and supplies included pvc pipe/conduit. Which melted/weakened steel and concrete in the perfect location. Just by coincidence.

http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/atlanta-i-85-fire-melts/2017/03/31/id/781734/

Note others not buying the homeless guy started it.

http://www.11alive.com/traffic/i-85...re-gets-new-high-powered-legal-team/430083985

Even if one accounts for built in expansion joints or connection points wouldn't they have had to be hit with flame at precise locations at the same time for such a clean break?

Information was/is slow moving on this 'fire' yet with in hours we seem to get a biography of a terror suspect and details about their attack.
 

It will be up to the authorities to determine how/why this fire started. I think the more important question is Why would anyone store PVC pipe in such a location??? I have burned some of that stuff in my outdoor burn pit, and once it catches on fire, the flames and heat are quite spectacular. If there were piles of this stuff stored under the Highway, I can easily understand how that would melt metal, and destroy concrete. IMO, some Dumbchit contractors or bueareaucrats should be held liable for piling PVC there.
 
nvtribefan said:
Uh oh. Tinfoil time again.
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Yep, no loss of life is the first clue. Homeless people have to live somewhere and they do pick out-of-the-way underpasses because they are basically protected somewhat from the weather. And they do burn stuff for cooking and heat... and then there are the ones on drugs around a lot of materials that burn hot, real hot, that aren't using good judgement.
 
before

A picture before the fire

http://www.bing.com/images/search?v...08040037655906377&selectedIndex=79&ajaxhist=0

Without lots of help I don't see the wood reels of pvc flex conduit becoming engulfed into a large super hot fire that quickly. Not saying it won't burn but a lot of plastics smolder or the flame is low(and toxic by the way, that black smoke was probably just as hazardous as the flame). Same for the wood, but will it burn that quickly in that layout?
 
I don't know about the burn characteristics of that cable but it seems that's what did it. I do know that I was working with what they called plenum cable back when I retired in the late 90s. Plenum cable was required in buildings because it was less of a fire hazard...
 

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