A couple of pics to go with Gravy's firemen quotes. CTers will probably whine that these show the northwest corner of Vesey&West, while the fireman was pretty sure it was southwest. If picture time stamps are relatively correct, the car park fire started within 10-15 minutes after the WTC1 collapse. I've got more pics from this series, but can't seem to find them online anymore.
First signs of black smoke from the car park after the dust cleared. (Time stamp 10:40:29, other pics show the start of collapse @ 10:27:31)
First sight of fire. (TS 10:43:46)
Fire up close. (TS 11:41:42)
Firemen on the job. (TS 11:42:03)
I don't have much more to add about the billiard balls-Keebler elfs-Death Star beam lady's "theory", but it doesn't sound too surprising to have car fires in 9/11 environment, even without burning debris falling on them. There were probably lots of cars with running engines around, there was lots of dust clogging up their filters and radiators, causing engines to overheat. There were also probably running cars with overheating catalsyt converters and there definitely was lots of paper around to start a fire.
Can't say much about the half burned police cars, except that the elevated highway looks like South Street, just a bit to the East of the Manhattan Bridge to me. 40deg 42' 36"N, 73deg 59' 28"W. The red building in the background is the powerplant in Brooklyn with large chimneys, while the blue building are some, I guess, hangars at the NY Harbour. But keep in mind that the closest I've ever been to NY is about 4000 miles
But OTOH, look, I found another half burned car.
http://www.nbc6.net/2006/0911/9824119_480X360.jpg
http://www.nbc6.net/news/9824136/detail.html?rss=ami&psp=news
It all makes sense now. How did we not see it before? 9/11 perps must be Jesse "The Body" Ventura, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Andre "The Giant" and "Ravishing" Rick Rude! The Real American hero Hogan must've been hot on their trail and they dusted off the old Death Star Beam Machine and decided to pay him a little visit. I mean, pfff, how could a wrestler become a governor without threatening every citizen with a DSBM. Without a DSBM, that's just as ludicrous as, say, a bodybuilder becoming a head of state, or, say, an actor a head of nation. That's impossible.