Analysis of New York City Fire Department Response

Um, the chief of safe- as the chief safety of the, uh,

fire department of New York

City told me that, uh, af- shortly after nine o'clock, he had roughly

ten alarms, roughly two hundred men in the building

trying to effect rescues

of some of those civilians who were in there.

Uh, and that basically, he received word of the possibility of a

secondary device, that is another bomb going off.

Uh, he tried to get his men out as quickly as

he could, but he said that there was

another explosion which took place, and then an hour after the

first hit here, or the first crash that took place, he

said, uh, there was another explosion that took

place, uh, in one of the towers here.

Uh, so obviously, he-- according to his theory, he thinks

that there

were actually devices that were planted in the building.

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

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