It also does not make clear how the parking lot, which is quite a ways away from the site, managed to catch so many cars on fire and turn them into warped hunks of metal. There are plenty of first responder and fire fighter testimony of spontaneous combustion of vehicles at the ground level. From Manhattan bridge, to FDR, to the parking lot. Some testimony even claimed people were being spontaneously ignited. What could cause this?
Link us to any articles you have about this, though I do remember seeing and reading about the cars and other vehicles catching fire and only parts of many of them burning..strange indeed. Perhaps there was more then one method of destruction used, which is why the need for a real evaluation of events has to take place.
Oral testimony of EMT Alan Cooke:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110040.PDF
....We got to the beginning of the FDR Drive, by the ferry, and i guess because of the way the streets channeled everything, one of the fire balls or whatever, had to have made it as far as south street seaport, because what happened at the time, it seemed like an explosion was coming from there...........
........Now we had everybody running [to] us from the seaport and running to us from the west side, so we couldnt go either way. That's when all the ash and everything started coming. We had a couple of people stop us because they were complaining of chest pains......
....Nobody could breathe and everybody was trying to climb up on to the wall of the FDR Drive.....
Testimony from Firefighter Todd Heaney:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110255.PDF
....When I got to the front of the building, it tossed rigs down the street like it was--like they were toys. They were upside down on fire.
Firefighter Patrick Connolly:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110453.PDF
The only thing I knew, that I wanted to do was
I wanted to go back out the door that we came in and
make a left turn and walk straight up West Broadway
out to safety. They were a little bit more
controlled. They decided to stay put about five
minutes. And think things through and they were
gonna go down. There were some interior stairs and
they were gonna go down to probably more like a bomb
shelter area an d I think when Joe looked, it looked
like it was destroyed. So we decided that we would
tie the search rope off to the doorway and the three
of us hand in hand decided that we would walk out.
And as we came out we started to walk north and
slowly but surely and up and over and under steel
and cars were --
cars with tires and cars were
popping and they were just starting to light up
spontaneously and there was near zero visibility at
this stage.
I'll PM you a list of the testimonies that are particularly noteworthy....the list goes on and on and on......