Talk:First Interstate Tower fire

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Removed origin claim from Mix Magazine/Glasband

I removed this passage regarding the origin, as both government reports into the fire from the US Fire Admin (TR-022) and NIST report (NISTIR 89-4061) both conclude that the fire is likely electrical, but neither could trace the origin anymore specifically than the general area of the building on the twelfth floor. (NIST report suspects the computer workstations, more based on the fire damage.) Reading the passage at the actual source, it's unclear where Mix Magazine and Martin Glasband came to the conclusion the fire's source was in the lighting system. It just states it with no further explanation as to how they reached this conclusion, nor where they got it from.

The fire's origin has been attributed^{[clarification needed]} to overloading of electrical wiring by reactive distortion of lighting circuit currents.

Glasband, Eric (November 1994). ""Lifting" the Grounding Enigma". MIX Magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2012-12-13.

If someone can dig up more on this, they're more than welcome to work it back in, as the NIST report does have a bit of investigating into trying to reconstruct the start of the fire based on smoke detectors and burn rates.-- The Navigators (talk) 06:44, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]