Editor’s note: Francis L. Brannigan had submitted this column, and others, before his sudden death on January 10.
Nate de Marse of 68 Engine, Fire Department of New York (FDNY), asked, “Does cast iron elongate as steel does in a fire?”
I have never read of this as a problem. For years, I made pancakes on a cast-iron griddle. The old pot-bellied stove was made of cast iron. As I studied further, I recognized that the connection of the floors to the column was equally as, if not more, important than the column itself.
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