For Towering Inferno fans, to celebrate the disaster movie of disaster movies we've added three new articles to our website blog this weekend providing a view of what might have happened in the weeks following the Glass Tower fire. Enjoy!
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Very cool.
I don't get where they got the idea of the fire happening in December though. In the film, I recall a scene where Harlee is looking at a letter in his apartment. It's dated "4/10/74", so the fire happens on either October 4th or April 10th.
Interesting stuff but why is the business called "Douglas Enterprises"? It should be "Duncan Enterprises."
I also got the clear impression the Mayor was killed in the climax.
We see the Mayor get washed over a railing onto a lower part of the dining room. Provided nothing else happened to him, that wouldn't necessarily have been fatal.
shareDecember date was purely based on the films release date.
Good spot on the letter though, I'll check that out when I have a watch next. Oh, and the Douglas error, I'll get that changed.
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Cool.
I'm not 100% certain on the exact date on the letter. But I did get the impression it was in April. Another reason why December is unlikely as you don't see any Christmas decorations anywhere in the building.
In the book The Glass Inferno, the fire takes places on the night before (American) Thanksgiving. It's a reason why a lot of people are out of the building when it happens -they've left early for the long weekend.
One character missing from the film is a co-worker of Jernigan as a security supervisor. He's a widower who earlier in the evening -before the fire is detected- politely declines an invitation to come dinner at Jernigan's house the next day. At the end of the book, he tells Jernigan that if the invitation still stands he'll be there.
The site is really interesting, btw.
This is a great article of the Towering Inferno. 5/5. It really brings the story even further to life and describes the whole story comprehensively. There are just a few minor corrections though. The fire on floor 81 was not discovered until at least after 8:00pm. It was already 7:30pm when Harlee Claiborne met Lisolette Mueller on floor 95 before they made their way to the party which had yet to start and the fire wasn't discovered until some time after the party started. Also, even though all the fires (apart from the rooftop fire which was caused by the chopper crash) were caused by faulty electrical systems, the explosions which destroyed the stairwells were both gas explosions and the vast majority of the explosions seen from outside the Glass Tower, (including the explosion which crippled the Scenic Elevator on floor 110), were back drafts, flashovers or simply the fire spreading explosively as it consumed highly flammable materials.
shareFrom part II: ‘The explosions shook the whole tower. My ears popped and I couldn’t hear much for a few moments. The ceiling in the Promenade started collapsing in sections. I looked across at my buddy Tom (piano player in the band) and he looked as petrified as I did. Then this mass of concrete just fell on him, huge beams. It came out of nowhere, and he was gone. He didn’t stand a chance.’
This is alluding to the death of Carlos the Bartender who died in a similar way when he was crushed by that statue that fell from above the bar, I imagine his family would be pretty angry and probably sue over the lack of safety considerations. I mean why the *beep* would you erect a massive statue over a bar on the 135th floor of a building in a seismic zone! Fire or no fire, water or no water that is one of the most retarded ideas ever considering tall buildings like that sway even under normal conditions.