# 9/11 Witness Recalls Tower Collapse on Broadway

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2098849578296443326
- Source account: [@Magorza69024048](https://x.com/Magorza69024048)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:59
- Published: 2026-09-13
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8xnNDf9fPOft/en/9-11-witness-recalls-tower-collapse-on-broadway

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8xnNDf9fPOft/en/9-11-witness-recalls-tower-collapse-on-broadway) And I was walking on Broadway at Fulton, and suddenly we heard an explosion. It was the first tower coming down.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8xnNDf9fPOft/en/9-11-witness-recalls-tower-collapse-on-broadway?t=8) And down Broadway, you could just see this wall of debris come flying at us. And we took-- I was by myself.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8xnNDf9fPOft/en/9-11-witness-recalls-tower-collapse-on-broadway?t=15) I took cover in between a column and the building at 195 Broadway. And we stood there probably-- We, I crouched there probably for about a good five minutes.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8xnNDf9fPOft/en/9-11-witness-recalls-tower-collapse-on-broadway?t=26) It took that long for all the debris to come by, for the air to clear. When I got up, I was covered head to toe with debris.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8xnNDf9fPOft/en/9-11-witness-recalls-tower-collapse-on-broadway?t=34) They opened the building. The gates in that building had been locked.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8xnNDf9fPOft/en/9-11-witness-recalls-tower-collapse-on-broadway?t=37) They opened the doors. We went inside. They had evacuated this building, which is some twenty-eight floors of commercial space, right after the first plane went into the World Trade Center. We stood in there. You could see. You could see outside.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8xnNDf9fPOft/en/9-11-witness-recalls-tower-collapse-on-broadway?t=50) It looked like a war zone. Debris, dust ankle deep, cars on fire, cars turned to spew in the explosion