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kt-accodion-icon-side-right\" style=\"max-width:none\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-inner-wrap\" data-allow-multiple-open=\"false\" data-start-open=\"none\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-1 kt-pane4395_c40b23-ff\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">Video Transcript<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p>1<br>00:00:02,580 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:07,770<br>We responded to a, a gas explosion<br>about a year ago, uh, here at<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2<br>00:00:07,770 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:09,300<br>the San Man Hotel in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3<br>00:00:09,630 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:13,920<br>It happened on the, the lowest<br>basement level of the structure, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4<br>00:00:13,920 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:18,005<br>it collapsed the first floor of the<br>structure down into the basement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5<br>00:00:20,640 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:21,660<br>A little bit of the history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6<br>00:00:21,660 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:24,900<br>It&#8217;s, it&#8217;s an old bank building<br>that started to be built in 1919<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7<br>00:00:24,900 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:27,360<br>based on the old plans that we<br>have, and it was completed in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8<br>00:00:27,360 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:29,790<br>1921, so over a hundred years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9<br>00:00:29,910 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:34,739<br>Finally sold to be retrofitted into<br>a 22 story hotel with a restaurant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10<br>00:00:34,739 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:36,090<br>space in the, in the lower basement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11<br>00:00:36,330 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:38,700<br>You definitely have a lot of the<br>unique attributes of how they<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12<br>00:00:38,700 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:39,965<br>build things back in the 1920s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13<br>00:00:40,695 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:45,945<br>A lot of Italian marble and Turkish<br>marble and very, very unique art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14<br>00:00:45,945 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:49,395<br>deco type type structure that that<br>was built back in the twenties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15<br>00:00:53,775 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:55,605<br>As we walk in here, we&#8217;re<br>walking into the first floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16<br>00:00:55,605 &#8211;&gt; 00:00:58,035<br>This is, this is what I would<br>call partial ground zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17<br>00:00:58,065 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:01,815<br>And the reason I say that is because<br>first floor collapsed into the basement,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18<br>00:01:01,815 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:03,195<br>which is where the explosion happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19<br>00:01:03,840 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:05,040<br>Right now, right in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20<br>00:01:05,040 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:07,530<br>As you can walk in, you can<br>see this elevator landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21<br>00:01:07,530 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:10,800<br>These are, these are elevators that were<br>initially installed back in the twenties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22<br>00:01:11,160 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:13,965<br>They were rehabbed a couple years<br>ago, but they kept all the beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23<br>00:01:15,015 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:19,455<br>Marble and, and gold inlays and<br>other things that are unique to this<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24<br>00:01:19,455 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:24,375<br>building, including the arch ceilings<br>and all of all the different detail<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25<br>00:01:24,375 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:26,865<br>you can see in the ceilings and<br>the areas is what we&#8217;re trying to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>26<br>00:01:26,865 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:28,515<br>recreate as we rebuild this thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27<br>00:01:35,390 &#8211;&gt; 00:01:36,585<br>This is the main lobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28<br>00:01:36,615 &#8211;&gt; 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