S: buildings coming down.
Other buildings on fire, they weren't hit by planes.
It wasn't right.
"Tower 7 just doesn't come down like that. I'm sorry."
Got "blown up" in the north tower when the second plane hit. In the stairwell, close to the ground floor.
Q: How confusing to know a plane hit but you saw devastation below?
S: Couldn't believe it, elevators falling, people coming down missing limbs and burnt.
It's still confusing what went on.
5 minutes in the building and now the elevators are coming down. Distinct delay.
S: How did the lobby get destroyed when the plane hits the 80th floor?
I can't remember yesterday some days. all I can remember is 9/11. Thinking and breathing are two tough things.
Giuliani never did anything for the firemen.
(Part of his story is about the radios, which is a real beef the firemen have.)
People getting sicker every day. Something needs to be changed. Lots of people getting sick.
Outran 2 falling, watched 1. Saw people falling and exploding.
Stuff fell on them, trapping them at one point on the third floor. William Rodriguez got them out.
We thought explosions were fires from the impact.
First plane, mistake, second, we're under attack - three second warning for us about the second plane? Come on.
Dylan on the guy that announced in 2 for people to go back, when Schroeder says that that guy "probably hung himself": "I would hope so!" Schroeder just prays for his soul.
S: They wanted to get everything out as quick - they found the gold. If Giuliani's family was in the Pit, we'd dig to China.
Q: A closet with a burnt body - a worker?
S: didn't know. Burnt beyond recognition.
Lobby - every window exploded - inches of glass. It wasn't from the jet fuel, no way. Distance. It looked like a bomb went off - no fire. (Couldn't be clear when this was. I think it was when he first arrived. The questioners made no attempt on film to determine this.)
(Fish, fish, fishing. Leading the witness. Misinforming the witness.)
S: I was blown across a highway as 2 collapsed.
Q: Lot of energy (god, you can hear the wheels turning.)
S: Blew a firetruck off someone trapped underneath. Saved his life.
Plane and building collapsing, it makes you wonder. Too many things that went wrong. Just me being in there. Everyone in that lobby knew it. Chaos everywhere.
Fires burning for weeks. Pockets all over the site.
Q (Dylan): Molten metal and steel.
S: Not the molten. The heat was beyond. The heavy duty fire. Absolutely something else.
How other planes got to where they got to, after we were attacked. It's a crime.
Somebody dropped the ball in the Pentagon.
(Rick Siegal? There's a third questioner (and maybe four) besides Dylan and Luke. Doesn't sound like Korey or Jason)
S: You wonder, you wonder. (Very often, Schroeder says this. He hesitates to go too far in categorical statements. He wonders and then he offers his personal opinion, so described, below.)
S: Explosions all in the Financial district, and steel going all that way. It could have been explosives in the building.
I believe personally that it was something more than the planes.
9/11 Commission was a circle jerk. Going through the motions. They didn't do their job. They cleaned up everything. It's a big lie.
Living in a nightmare for six years.