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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 455
The New York Fire Department documented the accounts of firefighters and emergency
medical workers by recording over 500 oral histories of their experiences during 9/11. The
mayors administration of New York refused to release the tapes so the New York Times, filed a
lawsuit in conjunction with several families of 9/11 victims. After years of battle the New York
Times and the victims families prevailed in the New York Court of Appeals. The tapes were
released in August of 2005 and the New York Times made transcripts available at there website.
Following are several examples of what firefighters witnessed; additional accounts can be found
in Dr. Griffin's paper, at 9-11 Research and other Internet sites:
There were some units there, along with a Battalion Chief and I gave them
some instructions as to what to try to do. 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. (Frank Cruthers, Chief, City
Wide Tour Command, F.D.N.Y.)
We were there, I don't know, maybe 10, 15 minutes and 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. Everybody just said run and we all turned around and we ran
into the parking garage because that's basically where we were. (Richard
Banaciski, Firefighter, F.D.N.Y.)
I was watching the fire, watching the people jump and hearing a noise and
looking up and seeing -- it actually looked -- the lowest floor of fire in the south
tower actually looked like someone had planted explosives around it because the
whole bottom I could see óó I could see two sides of it and the other side óó it just
looked like that floor blew out. I looked up and you could actually see everything
blew out on the one floor. I thought, geez, this looks like an explosion up there, it
blew out. (Brian Dixon, Battalion Chief, F.D.N.Y.)
I remember seeing, it looked like sparkling around one specific layer of
the building.... Then the building started to come down. My initial reaction was
that this was exactly the way it looks when they show you those implosions on
TV. (Tom Fitzpatrick, Deputy Commissioner for Administration, Commissioners
Office, F.D.N.Y.)
I thought that when I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it
came down, before No. 2 came down, that I saw low-level flashes. In my
conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista, never mentioning this to him, he
questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building,
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