Vulnerability Of Buildings to Bombs: Additional Thoughts After Oklahoma City
BY RONALD J. MASSA
In February 1993, a large terrorist bomb was detonated two stories belowground in a parking garage at the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City. This detonation caused six deaths and more than 1,000 injuries. It also exposed many people inside and outside of the fire protection community to high-energy physical phenomena and their potential to cause property damage, injury, and death uncharacteristic of the vast majority of building fires.
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