building failures

Take a look at the world's weirdest, most epic fails. These stories are too strange to be made up.

In this noisy poem, a wrecking ball demolishes old houses and stores to make way for a skyscraper.

Richard Picciotto, the highest-ranking firefighter to survive the collapse of the World Trade Center, provides an account of his activities and those of his fellow firefighters on September 11, 2001, when he and his team put their own lives on the line to help evacuate the North Tower, working until the building collapsed around them.

Profiles thirty-three women who showed themselves to be heroes at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, including police officers, firefighters, doctors, and emergency medical technicians.

Trapped inside a collapsing building after a tornado rips through Detroit, Yellowjacket Gordon McKittrick uses his medical training to help the survivors and save them from disaster as the building's basement begins to flood.

In this noisy poem, a wrecking ball demolishes old houses and stores to make way for a skyscraper.

Examines the causes of building collapses around the world including structural defects and man-made tragedies and discusses rescue efforts and investigations, as well as the efforts made to prevent further disasters.

In this account of the 2001 rescue efforts at the World Trade Center, retired New York City firefighter Dennis Smith gives a remarkable eyewitness account of perhaps the most heroic and desperate collaborative disaster effort in recent history.

Chronicles the demolition of an old school.

Chronicles the how and why of the most important and interesting structural failures in history, especially in the twentieth century.