Brazil Fire

[dik]

From the CBC,
"An abandoned highrise building occupied by squatters in downtown Sao Paulo caught fire and collapsed Tuesday, sending chunks of fiery debris crashing into neighbouring buildings and surrounding streets.

Firefighters said at least one person had been killed and there could be more."

Link:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sao-paulo-brazil-fire-1.4642762

Dik

 

[ACtrafficengr]

It took out part of the 19th(?) century church next door. I hope it can be rebuilt.

 

[IRstuff]

Is that really an "engineering" disaster or failure? Sufficient heat from the fire would certainly weaken the supporting structure, which would lead to collapse.

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[MJCronin]

All,

Is/was this a steel framed building or not ?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43960778

The pictures in the BBC article seem to show just rubble

At twenty six stories, we know that it was not wood framed.

If the steelwork was fireproofed, it should not have collapsed.

Its almost as if when you have the authorities collecting their paychecks but not doing their jobs, disaster results and people die

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Oakland_warehouse_fire

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[dik]

IRS... ya, it is...

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[IRstuff]

Based on this image, it looks like it was possibly a wood frame structure, and was therefore never designed to survive a fire of any magnitude.

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[MJCronin]

IRstuff ....

It was not a twenty six floor wood framed structure:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160930145847.htm

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[LionelHutz]

^^^ I'm really, really hoping that building does not become an engineering disaster....

 

[hokie66]

Being in Brasil, we may never get better information. We have had a few disasters reported there, and the promised reports never seem to materialize.