Why Molten Steel?

Ken Holden, who is involved with the organizing of demolition, excavation and debris removal operations at Ground Zero, later will tell the 9/11 Commission, “Underground, it was still so hot that molten metal dripped down the sides of the wall from [WTC] Building 6.” [9/11 COMMISSION, 4/1/2003] 

William Langewiesche, the only journalist 

to have unrestricted

access to Ground Zero during the cleanup 

operation, describes,

“in the early days, the streams of molten

 metal that leaked 

from the hot cores and flowed down broken 

walls inside the 

foundation hole.” [LANGEWIESCHE, 2002, 

PP. 32]

 
Leslie Robertson, one of the structural 

engineers responsible

for the design of the WTC, describes fires

 still burning and 

molten steel still running 21 days after 

the attacks. 

[SEAU NEWS, 10/2001 ] 

Alison Geyh, who heads a team of 

scientists studying the 

potential health effects of 9/11, reports:

 “Fires are still 

actively burning and the smoke is very 

intense. In some 

pockets now being uncovered, they are 

finding molten steel.” 

[JOHNS HOPKINS PUBLIC HEALTH MAGAZINE, 

2001] 

Ron Burger, a public health advisor who 

arrives at Ground 

Zero on September 12, says that “feeling 

the heat” and 

“seeing the molten steel” there reminds 

him of a volcano. 

[NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION,

 9/2003, PP. 40 ]

 
Paramedic Lee Turner arrives at the World 

Trade Center site 

on September 12 as a member of a federal 

urban search and 

rescue squad. While at Ground Zero, he 

goes “down crumpled 

stairwells to the subway, five levels 

below ground.” 

There he reportedly sees, “in the 

darkness a distant, 

pinkish glow—molten metal dripping from a 

beam.” 

[US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, 9/12/2002] 

According to a member of New York Air 

National Guard’s 109th

 Air Wing, who is at Ground Zero from 

September 22 to October

 6: “One fireman told us that there was 

still molten steel at

 the heart of the towers’ remains. 

Firemen sprayed water to 

cool the debris down but the heat 

remained intense enough 

at the surface to melt their boots.” 

[NATIONAL GUARD MAGAZINE, 12/2001] 

New York firefighters recall “heat so 

intense they 

encountered rivers of molten steel.” 

[NEW YORK POST, 3/3/2004] 

As late as five months after the attacks, 

in February 2002, 

firefighter Joe O’Toole sees a steel beam 

being lifted from 

deep underground at Ground Zero, which, 

he says, “was 

dripping from the molten steel.” 

[KNIGHT RIDDER, 5/29/2002]

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