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The importance of this Consensus Point is that a Fire Department of New York radio report unmistakably refutes the claim that there were widespread fires in World Trade Center 2 (the South Tower) the morning of 9/11.

The official story claiming the vast extent of fires in the South Tower (as cited below) has been told without taking into account radio reports from firefighters ascending the building, which had been struck at approximately 9:03 AM.

An examination of the transcript of a 78-minute radio recording, which was found in World Trade Center 5 and publicly reported in November 2002, shows that firefighters in the South Tower could be heard speaking over their radios while ascending to and arriving at the 78th floor using various stairways, until the building collapsed at 9:59 AM.

This transcript undermines the official claims that the floors in the vicinity of the airplane strike [1] were all “infernos,” and that the fires were of such a nature as to initiate the collapse of the building.