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philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 12:24 pm Supposedly a big spy place. Spying on Med Center, Nasa and Oil Industry. Interesting the burning, I guess shredding is out after Iran put together all the shredded strips after they invaded our Embassy.

Surprised there was not some sort of big fireplace, rather than having barrels on fire. BTW why did they have barrels? Did they have them on site already or was someone sent out to buy barrels. Not even sure where you would buy a barrel. Haven't seen them at Home Depot. If they had them on site, why? In case they needed to ship someone home?

Rafe wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 11:28 am

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:19 am

Rafe wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:34 am To be clear, the chronology was fire reported and Houston FD denied entrance to the consulate on Tuesday night. It wasn't until Wednesday at around noon that the news broke the U.S. had ordered the consulate closed. And late Wednesday before we learned that that Trump had issued the order Tuesday, before the fire and first-responder incident Tuesday night.

Again, that matters not. They knew about it days before we were told by the media.

It matters if you live in Houston, saw massive video coverage of the Tuesday night "fire" on every local newscast, and mentioned it here. My point is that, yep, SOP if you're pulling a consulate or embassy. But my bet is everyone chiming in who is not in Houston learned about the fire and large first-responder reaction sometime Wednesday afternoon either simultaneous with or after they learned of the order to close. If you live in Houston, all you knew Tuesday night/Wednesday morning was the fire. In fact, when first reported and televised Tuesday night, it wasn't clear that it was only bin-burning; there was significant smoke and the first videos were ground-level and helicopter; the clearer visuals of bin-burning were taken with a cell phone by someone in an adjacent building, sent into news stations after the 10:00 p.m. reports aired, and included in later reports.

The armchair-quarterbacking posts telling us that we should all know about embassy-closure records destruction didn't start here until 31 hours after the fire and local news coverage of it, and over 12 hours after the announcement from Washington of the closure.

Rafe wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:34 am To be clear, the chronology was fire reported and Houston FD denied entrance to the consulate on Tuesday night. It wasn't until Wednesday at around noon that the news broke the U.S. had ordered the consulate closed. And late Wednesday before we learned that that Trump had issued the order Tuesday, before the fire and first-responder incident Tuesday night.