Tallest building in the world

[ccomt]

Any fire fighters as members here -- how do you deal with fires in buildings that tall?

That could be a long hike down the stairs for the occupants in the event of a fire and the elevators are shut down!

[Gunner]

Originally Posted by ccomt

Any fire fighters as members here -- how do you deal with fires in buildings that tall?

Wait until the building burns down to the height of their equipment, and then put it out.

That could be a long hike down the stairs for the occupants in the event of a fire and the elevators are shut down!

Yeah, it would be scary to be in a building that tall if, say, a huge fire broke out somewhere in the middle floors.

[Ronbo]

In the US buildings above 20 floors or so are required to have water storage on the top floor to run the sprinklers via gravity feed as well as potable water. Power generators (minimum 2) are also required to keep the lights and elevators running in case of a grid failure. The Phone co. buildings downtown are spec'ed for 2 weeks without power feed from the grid, there's about 200,000 gallons of desiel fuel stored under the one here in Jax.

Our Battleships and B-52s trump any phallic symbol someone may want to show off. Although poping this thing up in the terrorist's back yard takes some big ones. In case no one noticed they don't seem to mind blowing stuff up on their own soil as well.