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then I just remember there was just an
explosion. It seemed 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
-Firefighter Richard Banaciski
there was a Port Authority cop with us and he said that they were given reports that the second building was going to come down
-- Firefighter Eric Berntsen
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
-Firefighter Ed Cachia
We had to switch staircases. I believe the staircase we were in, there was no way down it anymore on the lower level. There was word that it had been taken out; we don't know what from.
-Battalion Chief Malkin of the Safety Battalion.
And while I was still in that immediate area, the south tower, 2 World Trade Center, there was what appeared to be at first an explosion. it appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all four sides, materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemed to be a momentary delay before you could see the beginning of the collapse
-Chief Cruthers, who is the Citywide Tour Commander
The top of the building kind of started
to rumble, and we all looked up. It looked --
appeared that that first tower, the south tower, had exploded, the top of it. Thatís what I saw, what a lot of us saw
- Father John Delendick
. I thought there had been an explosion or a bomb that they had blown up there
- Captain Michael Donovan
. I should say that people in the street and myself included thought that the roar was so loud that the explosive - bombs were going off inside the building
- Assistant Commissioner James Drury, of the Bureau of Investigations and Trials in the Fire Department
All we saw was a puff of smoke coming from about 2 thirds of the way up. Some people thought it was an explosion
- Tom Fitzpatrick, Deputy Commissioner for Administration
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