The bulding was undergoing a renovation.
Old building + hot work = frequent fires.
This is how Notre Dam burned. It's how the old Capitol building in Iowa burned. It's how the Yonkers building burned. If you don't like it, the answer isn't to blame a secret cabal that wants to destroy history. THE ANSWER IS TO STOP IMPORTING FUCKING INCOMPETENT IMMIGRANT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS.
I don't know, I mean things traded at a stock market can be shipped on barges. What do barges do? They crash into bridges. What else crashes into bridges? Ships who lose power after the Islamic Jew Illuminati uses EMP on them. Sounds like a conspiracy to me.