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we heard ... what sounded like a loud explosion and then ... tower two
start coming down."
I heard three explosions, and then ... tower two started to come down."
heard explosion coming from ... the south tower ... There were about ten
explosions ... We then realized the building started to come down."
it almost sounded like bombs going off, like boom, boom, boom, like serven or eight."
it looked like the building was blowing out on all four sides. We actually
heard the pops."
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'? ... I thought it was that."
the building popped, lower than the fire. ... I was going oh, my god, there
is a secondary device because the way the building popped. I thought it was an explosion."
I actually gave at a lower floor, not the floor where the plane hit. ...
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 donw."
I thought ... before ... No. 2 came down, that I saw low-level flashes. ...
I ... saw a flash flash ... [at] the lower lvel of the building. You know like when they demolish a building ?"
Somewhere around the middle ... 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. ... With each popping sound it was initially an orange and the 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."
There was just an explosion. It semed like on television [when] they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions."
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
those implosions on TV."
There was what appeared to be ... an explosion. It appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all four sides, materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemd to be a momentary delay before you could see the begginning of the collapse."
I looked back and .. I heard like every floor went chu-chu-chu. I looked back and from the pressure everything was getting blown out of the floors before it actually collapsed."
the lowest floor of the fire in the south tower actually looked like someone had planted explosives around it because ... everything blew out on the one floor."
.there was an explosion in the south tower. ... I kept watching. Floor after
after floor floor. One floor unde another after another ... It looked like a
synchronized deliberate kind of thing."
there where definitely bombs in those buildings ... many other firemen know
that there were bombs in the buildings, but they're afraid for their jobs to admit it because the 'higher-ups' forbid discussion of this fact."