Witness Account of 9/11 Explosion

And I was walking on Broadway at Fullerton, and

suddenly we heard an explosion. It was the first tower coming down.

And down Broadway, you could just see this wall of debris

come

flying at us. And we took-- I was by myself.

I took cover in between a column and the building at One

ninety-five Broadway. And we stood there probably-- We--

I crouched there probably for about a good five minutes.

It took that long for all the debris to come by, for the air to

clear. When I got up, I was covered from head to toe with debris.

They opened the building. The gates in that building had been

locked.

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.

It looked like a war zone. Debris, dust ankle-deep,

cars on fire, cars turned to stew in the explosion.