That sounds like a good old day in the 90s lol I loved those sick days! Watching daytime tv and playing video games, pretending to be more sick than you are 😆

If you could play video games, you weren’t that sick! We never got away with staying home if we’ll enough to watch tv, play, etc. The only exceptions would have been when on the mend waiting for measles rash or chicken pox scars to fall off! And then we’d be working to catch up to resume with our classmates upon return to school! Mom would take us to or call the doctor to visit! If not that sick, we’d get light chores to keep us busy.

Pity many of these old films are not available on dvd or blu ray

from what i read the rooftop rescue did indeed happen

was this the incident that triggered that policy?

@@VSDalSheron This might be unrelated but you could try looking up the First Interstate Bank Tower fire to try and find out

What's really horrifying is that elevator might had stayed stopped at the 12th floor with the doors open because of a safety mechanism designed to shut down elevators during a fire. A lot of people in the Twin Towers were literally locked inside some of the elevators due to a mechanism designed to prevent people from forcing open the doors. Usually you are supposed to wait for rescue but 9/11 was not a normal situation. The people who escaped from an express elevator by digging a hole through the sheetrock shaft wall and into a bathroom were lucky their elevator didn't have these door locks.

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Lisa Hartman is still married to country music legend Clint Black.

they didn't know there was one.

I think it was because shooting out windows would: 1. Create a hazard of falling glass; 2. Endanger firefighters or trapped civilians from flying bullets or glass; 3. Potentially create a backdraft in an area where the fire or heat might be trapped. The in rush of air would cause flames to sweep in through the affected area and kill anyone in it. So there are sound reasons for Chief Sterling to deny that suggestion.

@@kingtigercrownestate9102 Sorry ,didn't mean to offend .Guess I better be careful what I say in my comments!!!However I stick to my guns about appreciating movies (whether based on real Events or not) that have terrific stuntwork and spectacular Special effects.As well as a great script.And Towering Inferno had all of that and a star-studded cast as a Bonus.I said this movie here was a very worthy effort indeed for a TV movie.We all have a right to express our tastes and preferences,so try to chill out a tad willya?

@@kingtigercrownestate9102 another Thing.....I am very grieved when People die horrid deaths in real life,so please don't get me wrong on that score.But many movies (like Towering) are about escapism.One can enjoy the way they're made but when something like it happens for real then it's a terrible Thing.

It is lee majors you clampet 😂😂

De nada.

Gracias por querer ser bombero. Espero que lo hayas logrado y te mantengas a salvo.

@@Itme gracias por sus deseos, no fue facil pero lo logre, auqnue me tuve que retirar prematuramente por razones de salud, pero incurdsionamos en otras areas relacionadas aplicando lo aprendido y la experiencia, en dias pasados le comparti esta pelicula a una amiga que ingreso al curos de formacion d ebomberos voluntarios

Also reminds me of the 1st episode of the "7th" season of Emergency!... "The Steel Inferno"...

​@@neonhomersame here, lol. Just re-watched that episode yesterday. 👍

Hi. I'm sorry to hear about your injuries. Thank you for your service. I hope you were able to recover from your injuries.

Knight Rider 55 Do you if the t.v.show code red will ever be put on d.v.d.joey.

@@joeyrousch2438 I checked around online and was unable to find this TV show for streaming or on DVD. I don't know if it will ever be released on DVD.

Knight Rider 55 oh well thanks any for trying.

@@KnightRider55 I'd love to find 240R . There used to be episodes but they have been removed . I remember this and the 77 Borgnine movie. Early 70s to late 80s there were some good made for TV movies. Remember the movie Sunshine from 74? It morphed into a short TV series . It was inspired by a true story.

This is a true story.

@@Esotelien oh sorry I know that 9/11 happened I watched it unfold like everybody else, I was just commenting about another's discussion pertaining to comparing the real events of 9/11 with that 1974? Disaster Flick The Towering Inferno. Sorry I didn't mean to confuse anyone.

@jaggg.3821 no problem.

Ja, it was a fire storm. Have to fear and love the science of fire. Shiver me timbers. So ist das Leben

The movie you’re talking about is 1974s’ The Towering Inferno

Or possibly backdraft

Meines Wissens nach nicht.

Ich glaube nights. Ich habe das internet gesucht.

Yes its called die hard .😂

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I apologize about that. That is all that I could recover from the video tape.

I found the following information online: "The fire's origin has been attributed to overloading of the building's electrical system by reactive distortion of lighting circuit currents." I found this information at the following website: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Interstate_Tower_fire.

Watched this when it came out .I'd just turned 16 .Was never released on dvd .

They weren't 100% sure precisely what started the fire, but it was believed to have been electrical. I guess they made it ambiguous for the movie.

I really hope they weren't running extention cords under the carpet. 😓

Towering Inferno was made in the 1970s and is fictional. This was made in the 1990s, and was actually based on a real incident, the First Interstate Tower fire in 1988.

Additionally, The Towering Inferno is based off of two separate books, one being "The Glass Inferno" and the other being "The Tower" (which I own both in hardcover :) ) which are essentially the same books; same disaster but different plots and characters. Warner Brothers owned the rights to "The Tower" and 20th Century Fox owned "The Glass Inferno". Both studios shared the costs, but was actually produced by Fox. The film cost $14.3 million. (Source: Wikipedia)

Unfortunately this is all I had recorded on the VHS tape. I must have pressed the record button too late.

@@KnightRider55 Ok Sorry

Did they use the actual building in the exterior shots?

@@nyyzoso800 Pretty sure they did.

If I'm not mistaken, the actual building can be seen in the exterior shots at the fire scene.

The fire was first alerted around 10:22pm on May 4, 1988 when a smoke detector on the 12th floor of the building activated. However, due to ongoing work on the sprinkler system being installed that evening, security personal immediately silenced the alarm, believing the activation to be a false alarm.[4] Six minutes later, almost every smoke detectors from floors 12 thru 30 activated.[5] The fire was not reported to emergency services until people outside the building called 911. (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Interstate_Tower_fire ) It's easy to look back at a 40 year old fire and say what should have happened differently. Hindsight is 20/20. However, in the moment, people don't think like you would looking back on something, because in the moment you are in the moment, not thinking something could be amiss. With the installation of the fire sprinklers, they were getting tons of false alarms, so the system was faulty. They didn't have the manpower to answer every single call there were that many, so they eventually ignored them while the sprinkler system was being installed.

From one way yeah it is locked. It's unlocked from the office side.

That's not uncommon especially today. Stairways are locked for security but they are only locked from the stairway going in. You can still open the door from the other side.

Good luck with that. Unbreakable windows.

World Trade Center: Towering Inferno 3.

But I guess they had to stand upright for the sake of filming when normally you'd be crawling to avoid too much smoke inhalation.

Well now, you're just asking characters in a TV movie to use common sense! That NEVER happens! 😊

@@Arya-su3jv ikr this is kinda dumb

@@stage7136 It was inspired by a real event.

@@alyzu4755 This movie was based on a real event