LOOSE CHANGE, 2ND EDITION RECUT -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY

However, the World Trade Center’s core and elevator shafts were hermetically sealed, aka airtight. The fire could not possibly have had enough oxygen to travel 1,300 feet down.

On 9/11, New York City lost 343 firefighters at the World Trade Center. Since they were the ones inside the Twin Towers before and as they collapsed, I’d say they have a pretty good idea of what happened. So what does the FDNY think?

Firefighter: What the fuck? What do we do? We made it outside, we made it about a block …

Firefighter: We made it at least two blocks. We started running. Floor by floor it started popping out.

Firefighter: It was as if they had detonated, as if they had planned to take down a building: BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.

Firefighter: Yeah, all the way down.

Numerous members of Engine 7 describe explosions preceding the collapses, not to mention the damage to the lobby of the North Tower.

Firefighter: I heard a loud BOOM. And I was right at the desk there, on the left hand side when you come into Tower 1, and I walked out – I didn’t go out – I walked to where all the doorway, the glass were broken, and I looked out, and I seen in the building across the street, I seen the shadow coming, I seen the shadow on the building across the street, coming down.

Firefighter: I wasn’t expecting to see the damage that I saw in the lobby.

Firefighter: The lobby is about six stories high. And the lobby looked as though a bomb had exploded there. All the glass was taken out there, there were 10 foot by 10 foot marble panels that were loose from the wall of the trade center.

Firefighter: I went around by the freight elevator, and I could see it was just blown. It was just a giant ... 30th floor, we hear another explosion. And at that time we heard a huge explosion.

Firefighter Louie Cacchioli told People Weekly, “I was taking firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there were bombs set in the building.”

NY FIREFIGHTERS REACHED SOUTH TOWER CRASH ZONE, by David Batty and Julian Borger

For more than a year, the Port Authority blocked the release of a tape of firefighters transmissions from the World Trade Center on 9/11. In November, 2002, the tape was finally released to the New York Times and other news outlets. Why did it take so long to get the tape released?

Firefighter: “I got, uh, an eyewitness who said there was an explosion on floors 7 and 8, 7, 8.”

Firefighter: “Battalion 3 to Dispatch, we’ve just had another explosion.”

Firefighter: “…Warren Street, because of the secondary explosion. We’ve got numerous people covered with dust from the secondary explosion.”

Firefighter: “We got another explosion on the Tower, 10-13, 10-13.”

Firefighter: “Tower 2 has had a major explosion and what appears to be a complete collapse surrounding the entire area.”

Firefighter: “I was involved in the secondary, uh, explosion at Tower 1, Kay …”

Chief Oriel Palmer had reached the fire on the 78th floor of the South Tower, and devised a plan to put it out.

9:52 a.m.

Battalion Seven Chief “Battalion Seven to Battalion Seven Alpha”

“Freddie, come on over Freddie, come on over by us.”

Battalion Seven Chief: “Battalion Seven … Ladder 15, we’ve got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines. Radio that, 78th floor numerous 10-45 Code Ones.”

Ladder 15: “What star are you in, Orio?”

Battalion Seven Aide: “Seven Alpha to lobby command post.”

Ladder Fifteen: “Fifteen to Battalion Seven.”

Battalion Seven Chief: “… Ladder 15.”

Go to Next Page