we could feel it when it hit, but no one knew what it was. we thought like years ago when they had an earthquake and you felt the buildings here in manhattan shake, we thought that might have happened again, but when they said that a helicopter hit, we thought, a helicopter? >> you were on the 29th floor? did you smell smoke? did you see fire? >> only coming down the staircase you could smell it coming down the staircase because that staircase is like one big shaft, a vent. you could smell the smoke. not thick, but you knew that there was smoke. >> reporter: did it smell like fuel? >> it smelled like -- it smelled like construction material that was on fire or burning. that is the 134e8 you smelled. >> reporter: everybody you know make it out all right? >> that was what i was just checking to make sure everybody on -- everybody in my department, everybody on my floor did get out of the