Originally posted by ImAPepper
What about this firefighter?
We were looking at two large bodies of fires that neither of us in our 33-year careers had ever seen anything that enormous. So it's pretty
much, you know, I thought we would lose a company or two possibly. I didn't think we would come out of this unscathed at all. It was just too
enormous.
–FDNY Chief of Safety Albert Turi
Maybe?.. you just ought to waste those 11 minutes?
And... do some further considerable detailed research... before putting foot in mouth?
The above quote was from ground level and was referring to WTC2
Following are 16 WTC first responder descriptions of explosive noises well before the towers collapsed:
"Sounded like bombs" –Keith Murphy
"A huge explosion" –Gerard Gorman
"Sound of popping and exploding" –Alwish Monchery
"Explosions" –William Burns
"Kept hearing these large boom, boom" –Rosario Terranova
"Sounded like explosions." –Anthony Fitzgerald
"Like a shotgun going off" –Mark Meier
"Sounded like explosions" –Wilfred Barriere
"Sounded like bombs, like blockbusters" –John Murray
"You could hear explosions" –Richard Smiouskas
"Sounded like an M-80, that's how loud they were" –Tim Pearson
"Sounds like a shotgun" –Eric Ronningen
"Sounded like an explosion" –John Morabito
"There were lots of explosions" –Jeff Birnbaum
"Under the assumption that the sounds were secondary bombs." –Andrew Rodriguez
"Sounded like bombs. Like a bomb going off. I mean, it was huge." –FDNY Deputy Chief Peter Hayden