Re firefighters who reported bombs in the WTC:
-NEW YORK TIMES ‘ORAL HISTORIES’ - WTC TASK FORCE INTERVIEWS
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER STEPHEN GREGORY Interview Date: October 3, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110008.PDF
pgs 14-16: I know I was with an officer from Ladder 146, a Lieutenant Evangelista, who ultimately called me up a couple of days later just to find out how I was. We both for whatever reason -- again, I don't know how valid this is with everything that was going on at that particular point in time, but for some reason I thought that when I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down, before No. 2 came down, that I saw low-level flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista, never mentioning this to him, he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I thought... I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down.
Q. Was that on the lower level of the building or up where the fire was?
A. No, the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's what I thought I saw. And I didn't broach the topic to him, but he asked me. He said I don't know if I'm crazy, but I just wanted to ask you because you were standing right next to me. He said did you see anything by the building? And I said what do you mean by see anything? He said did you see any flashes? I said, yes, well, I thought it was just me. He said no, I saw them, too... it's just strange that two people sort of say the same thing and neither one of us talked to each other about it. …
Q. On the television pictures it appeared as well, before the first collapse, that there was an explosion up on the upper floors.
A. I know about the explosion on the upper floors. This was like eye level. I didn't have to go like this. Because I was looking this way. I'm not going to say it was on the first floor or the second floor, but somewhere in that area I saw to me what appeared to be flashes. I don't know how far down this was already. I mean, we had heard the noise but, you know, I don't know.
-CAPTAIN KARIN DESHORE Interview Date: November 7, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110192.PDF
pg 10: I had no clue what was going on. Never turned around because a sound came from somewhere that I never heard before. Some people compared it with an airplane. It was the worst sound of a rolling sound, not a thunder. I can’t explain it, what it was. All I know is -- and a force started to come hit me in my back. I can’t explain it. You had to be there. All I know is I had to run because I thought there was an explosion.
pg 11: Whatever this explosion was simply sucked all the oxygen out of the air.
pg 15: Somewhere around the middle of the world trade center, there was this orange and red flash coming out. Initially it was just one flash. Then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode. The popping sound, and with each popping sound it was initially an orange and then a red flash came out of the building and then it would just go all around the building on both sides as far as I could see. These popping sounds and the explosions were getting bigger, going both up and down and then all around the building. I went inside and I told everybody that the other building or there was an explosion occurring up there and I said I think we have another major explosion…
-DEPUTY COMMISSIONER THOMAS FlTZPATRlCK Interview Date: October 1, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110001.PDF
pgs 13-14: I remember seeing, it looked like sparkling around one specific layer of the building... My initial reaction was that this was exactly the way it looks when they show you those implosions on TV.
FIREFIGHTER EDWARD CACHIA Interview Date: December 6, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110251.PDF
pg 5: As my officer and I were looking at the south tower, it just gave. It actually gave at a lower floor, not the floor where the plane hit, because we originally had thought there was like an internal detonation explosives because it went in succession, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then the tower came down.
-PARAMEDIC DANIEL RIVERA Interview Date: OCTOBER 10 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110035.PDF
pg 9: It was a frigging noise. At first I thought it was -- do you ever see professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear “pop, pop, pop, pop, pop”? That’s exactly what -- because I thought it was that. When I heard that frigging noise, that’s when I saw the building coming down.
-FIREFIGHTER KENNETH ROGERS Interview Date: December 10, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110290.PDF
pgs 3-4: … then there was an explosion in the south tower... I figured it was a bomb, because it looked like a synchronized deliberate kind of thing. I was there in '93.
-LIEUTENANT GEORGE J. DeSIMONE Interview Date: October 22, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110129.PDF
pg 6: The next thing I know, we heard a little bit of a rumbling, and then white powder came from the first collapsed building. I thought it was an explosion initially.
pgs 7-8: After that, I still thought it was an explosion. I thought it was some kind of thermal explosion where I'm either going to get burnt -- and I had kind of ideas that it was going to be something like Hiroshima where all this heat was coming at me and we were going to get burnt...
pg 10: I was fearful that there were bombs in the building. That was my first thought, being the military kind of guy that I am.
-FATHER JOHN DELENDICK Interview Date: December 6, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110230.PDF
pgs 5-6: I remember asking Ray Downey was it the jet fuel that blew up. He said at that point he thought there were bombs up there because it was too even.
-NBC Reporter, Pat Dawson: “[Albert Turi] the Chief of Safety of the Fire Department of New York City told me he received word of the possibility of a secondary device, that is another bomb going off. He tried to get his men out as quickly as he could, but he said there was another explosion which took place. …That his theory he thinks that there were actually devices that were planted in the building.” Video:
http://terrorize.dk/911/witnesses/911.wtc.reporter.1.wmv
FIREFIGHTER TIMOTHY JULIAN Interview Date: December 26, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110386.PDF
pg 10: … right when we got to the corner of Washington and Albany, that’s when I heard the building collapse. First I thought it was an explosion. I thought maybe there was a bomb on the plane, but delayed type of thing, you know, secondary device. I was convinced for a week it was secondary devices. … You know, and I just heard like an explosion and a then a cracking type of noise, and then it sounded like a freight train, rumbling and picking up speed, and I remember I looked up, and I saw it coming down…
-MSNBC Reporter, Rick Sanchez: "… Police have found what they describe as a suspicious device, and they fear that it might be something that could lead to another explosion...I spoke with some police officials moments ago, Chris, and they told me that they have reason to believe that one of the explosions at the WTC aside from the ones that may have been caused by the impact of the plane with the building, may have been caused by a van that was parked in the building that may have had some type of explosive device in it. So, their fear here is that there may have been explosive devices planted either in the building or in the adjacent area ..."
Video:
http://www.terrorize.dk/911/comments/911.w....explosives.wmv
BATTALION CHIEF DOMINICK DeRUBBIO Interview Date: October 12, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110064.PDF
pg 5: It was weird how it started to come down. It looked like it was a timed explosion
-Reporter: “… there was an explosion. It was way up where the fire was.. and the whole building, at that point, bellied out in flames…”Video:
http://terrorize.dk/911/witnesses/911.wtc.reporter.2.wmv
-FIREFIGHTER WILLIAM REYNOLDS Interview Date: December 11, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110288.PDF
pgs 3-4: After a while, and I don't know how long it was, I was distracted by a large explosion from the south tower and it seemed like fire was shooting out a couple of hundred feet in each direction, then all of a sudden the top of the tower started coming down
-FIREFIGHTER THOMAS TURILLI Interview Date: January 17, 2002
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110501.PDF
pgs 4-5: … sounded like bombs going off, like boom, boom, boom, like seven or eight
-FIREFIGHTER KEITH MURPHY Interview Date: December 5, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110238.PDF
pgs 19-20: I had heard right before the lights went out, I had heard distant boom boom boom, sounded like three explosions. I don’t know what it was. At the time, I would have said they sounded like bombs
-War Corespondent, Jack Kelley: "…Apparently what appears to happen was that at the same time two planes hit the building that there... that the FBI most likely thinks that there was a car or truck packed with explosives underneath the buildings which also exploded at the same time, and brought both of them down..."
Video:
http://www.terrorize.dk/911/comments/911.w....jack.kelley.rm
-Terrorism Security Expert (used by many news organizations): “We’ve heard reports of secondary explosions after the aircraft impacted, whether in fact there wasn't something else at the base of the towers that in fact were the coup de grace to bring them to the ground.”
Video:
http://terrorize.dk/911/comments/911.wtc.s...frey.beatty.wmv
-FIREFIGHTER RICHARD BANACISKI Interview Date: December 6, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110253.PDF
pgs 3-4: We were there I don't know, maybe 10, 15 minutes and then I just remember there was just an explosion. It seemed like on television they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions.
-FIREFIGHTER CRAIG CARLSEN Interview Date: January 25, 2002
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110505.PDF
pg 6: I guess about three minutes later you just heard explosions coming from building two, the south tower. It seemed like it took forever, but there were about ten explosions.
-ABC Reporter: “…the entire building has just collapsed as if a demolition team set off....”
Video:
http://terrorize.dk/911/comments/911.abc.demolition.team.wmv
-Witness: "I was about five blocks away when I heard explosions... three thuds and turned around to see the building that we just got out of... tip over and fall in on itself."Video:
http://terrorize.dk/911/witnesses/911.wtc.witness.1.wmv
-Witness: "...and then all of a sudden it started like... it sounded like gunfire... you know, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang and then all of a sudden three big explosions. "
Video:
http://terrorize.dk/911/witnesses/911.wtc.witness.2.wmv
-FDNY: "As we were getting our gear on and making our way to the stairway, there was a heavy duty explosion."
Video:
http://terrorize.dk/911/witnesses/heavy.duty.explosion.wmv
-FIREFIGHTER CHRISTOPHER FENYO Interview Date: December 11, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110295.PDF
pg 3: There was an explosion at the top of the Trade Center and a piece of Trade Center flew across the West Side Highway and hit the Financial Center.
pg 5: About a couple minutes after George came back to me is when the south tower from our perspective exploded from about midway up the building.
pgs 6-7: At that point a debate began to rage because the perception was that the building looked like it had been taken out with charges. We had really no concept of the damage on the east side of 2 World Trade Center at that point, and at that point many people had felt that possibly explosives had taken out 2 World Trade…
-FDNY: "We were trying to get some of the people out, but then there was secondary explosions and then subsequent collapses..." Video:
http://www.911blimp.net/videos/FDNY-explosions.mov
-FIREFIGHTER FRANK SWEENEY Interview Date: October 18, 2001
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110113.PDF
pg 9: I hear what sounded like firecrackers and a low rumble. I look up, and the south tower – I could see the top part of the siding overlapping the bottom side of the siding..
Clip of firemen talking about bombs found in one of the towers:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4574366633014832928
* Fireman: "There's a bomb in the building!"
Fireman: "Here we go again"
Fireman: "There's a bomb in the building, start clearing out."
Bystander: "Sorry? Did you say there was a bomb? What did you say?"
Fireman: "Bomb in the building! Start clearing out!"
Fireman: "We gotta get the **** outta here!"
Fireman "There's a secondary device in the building!"
Fireman: "We got a secondary device!"
Fireman: "Got a secondary device in the building!"
Fireman: "Secondary device!"
-FDNY recall "detonations" in South Tower:
fireman: It was as if as if they had detonated, det..
fireman: yea detonated yea
fireman: as if they had planned to take down a building,
boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom ...
Video:
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/discussion_in_firehouse.mpg
