the sight of the firemen was a very calming experience. when i into the lobby, to see the damage there the full impact is beginning to dawn. now you hear silence. it is a dead calm of dust and smoke and all of a sudden, you hear people slowly, somebody starts screaming. someone starts yelling. someone stars saying, you hearing help. you are hearing plays. one at a time. you are hearing pleas one at a time. everybody coming out what happened, what happened? one of the volunteer fire marshals, grabbed my flashlight put a whistle around my neck and ran out of my private office into the larger office and said come on everybody let s go there s been an explosion upstairs we have to move. elevator came, we went downstairs. we are on the ground floor about to get through the turnstile. the security guard asked us
with six inches of debris. first few seconds i thought i was dead. saw nothing, heard nothing. i was covered, started calling for calling for help. it is my understanding all bridges and nells are closed . t and thems are closed. boats out that have been injured. you don t lt people hurt. that s the operational rule. if anybody cried out, calling
it was instantaneous, just a very loud noise. lights went out. everything is black. very heavy smoke debris piled on top of me. i m pinned in my chair at my desk. as i came into focus closer pile of debris looked like a face. sure it couldn t be alive person. i thought i saw it wink or blink. i yelled for help. from outside came lt. commander taranitno. it feels like a furnace. i saw captain thomas trying to pull some debris. i looked off to my side and i saw mr. hinson 10 feet away. inside this cave of debris. already my uniform is starting to melt. my shoes are starting to melt. i m really eager for him to get out of there.
they weren t going to be able to put the fire out they wanted to get rescuers up there as quickly as possible, as high as possible. not concerned about the fire at that point. i heard a banging d a voice screaming for help, help, help i m buried, anybody there? i can t breathe, help! this is tan from the loans department please don t leave know die, somebody help me. a stranger s voice kept directing us come over here. even though he was responding, i couldn t hear. so i tried get up from under the desk and i realized i he was covered up to my shodeulr in debris. and i could peek through t rubble and i saw the bottom wing starts to burn. my greatest fear was this plane was going to ignite, the fuel tank is going to explode i was gonna die. so i crawled the entire len of the loans entire enter of the loans damage through the lounge into the computer room
saw nothing, heard nothing. i was covered, started calling for calling for help. it is my understanding all bridges and nells are closed . and thems are closed. boats out that have been injured. you don t let people hurt. that s the operational rule. if anybody cried out, calling out. the people were almost like a