examples of buildings which did not collapse from fire in february the story windsor building in madrid spain caught fire and burned for two days the building was completely engulfed in flames at one point several top floors collapsed onto lower ones yet the building remained standing in october in caracas venezuela a fire in a story office tower burned for more hours and spread over floors two floors collapsed but the underlying floors did not and the building remained standing in february a fire gutted eight floors of the story one meridian plaza building in philadelphia pennsylvania the fire burned for hours the building did not collapse in february there was another towering inferno in taiwan the fire burned for about an hour and a half but the building never came close to collapsing so we have a fire burn for minutes and collapse wtc simply amazing even when it was rated to withstand multiple boeing collisions at mph