"The building was fully involved in fire." – Photographer Steve Spak
We walked over by number Seven World Trade Center as it was burning and saw this 40-plus story building with fire on nearly all floors. –FDNY Lieutenant Robert LaRocca
Almost every window has fire. It is an amazing site. –Captain Jay Jonas
7 was fully involved –Firefighter TJ Mundy
7 World Trade was burning from the ground to the ceiling fully involved. It was unbelievable. –Firefighter Steve Modica
Seven World Trade was going heavy, and they weren't letting anybody get too close. Everybody was expecting that to come down. –Firefighter Vincent Massa
...you're walking by this building and you're hearing this building creak and fully involved in flames. It's like, is it coming down next? Sure enough, about a half an hour later it came down. –FDNY Lieutenant James McGlynn
7 World Trade, which is above the ramp, was now fully engulfed. –PAPD K-9 Sergeant David Lim
fire was going virtually on every floor –FDNY Deputy Chief Nick Visconti
Seven was free burning. –Captain Robert Sohmer
there was fire on every floor. – Fire Captain Brenda Berkman
building 7 was really roaring. –FDNY Chief Medical Officer Kerry Kelly.
Building #7 was still actively burning and at that time we were advised by a NYFD Chief that building #7 was burning out of control and imminent collapse was probable. –PAPD P.O. Edward
7 WTC was ablaze and damaged –M. DeFilippis, PAPD P.O.
The flames were coming out of every window of that building from the explosion of the south tower. So then building Seven came down. When that started coming down you heard that pancaking sound again everyone jumped up and starts. ...Because it really got going, that building Seven, saw it late in the day and like the first Seven floors were on fire. It looked like heavy fire on seven floors. It was fully engulfed, that whole building. ...you could see the flames going straight through from one side of the building to the other, that’s an entire block. –Firefighter Tiernach Cassidy
I heard on the handy talky that we are now fighting a 40-story building fully involved.
7 World Trade was burning up at the time. We could see it. ... the fire at 7 World Trade was working its way from the front of the building northbound to the back of the building. –Firefighter Eugene Kelty Jr.
He informed us that the fires in building 7 were uncontrollable and that its collapse was imminent. There were no fires inside the loading dock (of 7) at this time but we could hear explosions deep inside. –PAPD P.O. William Connors
We looked over, and it's engulfed in flames and starting to collapse. –Paramedic Louis Cook
We couldn't even go that way, that's how bad the fire was, but by the time I was coming back it was rolling, more than a couple of floors, just fully involved, rolling. ...things were just crackling, falling and whatnot...he said that building was rolling on top of the building that we were passing. That building was on fire and likely to collapse more too. –Firefighter Gerard Suden
"7 has got fire on several floors." –Lieutenant William Ryan
They are worried that number 7 is burning and they are talking about not ceasing operations. –Deputy Commissioner Frank Gribbon
they were waiting for 7 World Trade Center to come down as it was on fire. It was too dangerous to go in and fight the fire. –Assistant Commissioner James Drury
Building 7 was on fire. That was ready to come down. –Charlie Vitchers, Ground Zero Superintendent
At that point, Seven World Trade had 12 stories of fire in it. –Firefighter Maureen McArdle-Schulman
The 7 World Trade Center was roaring. –Firefighter Kevin Howe
