Witness Account of Building Collapse

Tomaste una foto ganadora de premio que pensaste sería tu última foto

Sí, eh, precisamente cuando to-tomé el,

eh, el edificio que explota, pues veo que el, el edificio

es-- eh, empieza a caerse y yo estoy abajo.

Dije: "Es que no hay forma de que yo sobreviva.

Sob-- No, no", decía. "No, eh, tengo que estar loco para

pensar que voy a sobrevivir", ¿no?

Y entonces-- pero gracias a Dios, este, sobreviví a eso.

Seguí tomando fotos

y me pongo al frente del otro edificio que estaba todavía

a-parado.

Y entonces otra vez

estoy a, mismo al pie del fren-- eh, en frente del edificio

y explota,

y yo estoy de espaldas cuando explota.

Eh, estoy de espaldas al edificio

y dije: "No, no, no, ahora yo no voy a tomar ninguna foto,

olvídate".

Y corrí para dentro de un edificio.

I saw Building 7 come down and it was a controlled

demolition. A classic controlled demolition.

That building had no reason to come down.

There's no history of a high-rise fire

and a fireproof resulting in failure of the building because the building

is in New York City parlance, a Class 1,

which is a single word,

fireproof.

I demand to know, as should everyone, especially the

media, why important testimony from-- made that day

from over 150 police,

firefighters, and first responders regarding

explosions wasn't included in the commission report,

nor investigated further.

There was a secondary explosion, probably a device either planted before

or on the aircraft that did not explode until an hour later.

Floor by floor it started popping out.

It was like-- it was if, if, if they had detonated.

Det--

Yeah, detonated.

It was if they were planned to take down a building. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Airline. There was an, uh, heavy duty explosion.

The whole building just collapsed on us inside the lobby.

Was that a secondary explosion?

Yes, it was.

That was the plan.

You want to call your, you want to call your mother or something?

We've got to get back.

Come on.

Five minutes and the elevators exploded on us.

Yeah, we, we, we, we said, "Something's wrong." Yeah.

I mean, the plane hit up on the eightieth floor.

I mean, fu-- in five minutes, all of a sudden now the elevator's

exploding on the

first level of the lobby?

And it's the first thing I think of when I get up in the morning,

and it's the last

thing at night before I go to bed. I lost Tommy

O'Hagan, Kenny Kompel, and Bruce Van Heins that day.

Three hundred and forty-three firefighters, including three of my good

friends, Thomas Hetzel,

Bobby Evans, and Mike Keefe,

perished that day,

and these were some of the best and the bravest people in the

world.

And they,

along with the rest of those who were murdered and died horrible

deaths, deserve justice.

I saw Building 7 come down and