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Louie Cacchioli, 51, is a firefighter assigned to Engine 47 in Harlem.
September 12, 2001
We were the first ones in the second tower after the plane struck. 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 WAS BOMBS SET IN THE BUILDING. I had just asked another firefighter to stay with me, which was a good thing because we were trapped inside the elevator and he had the tools to get out.
There were probably 500 people trapped in the stairwell. It was mass chaos. The power went out. It was dark. Everybody was screaming. We had oxygen masks and we were giving people oxygen. Some of us made it out and some of us didn't. I know of at least 30 firefighters who are still missing. This is my 20th year. I am seriously considering retiring. This might have done it.
When the first broadcast were being made of interviews with people who were standing watching the buildings burn, one commentator said while watching the building: "What's that you heard? 'Pop, pop, pop,' and you saw glass being blown AWAY from the building and THEN the building begin to crash?"
The glass being blown outward was shown going from the bottom UP, NOT from the top DOWN.
I saw it, I heard it, and I said to myself those were detonations. Later I saw the same clip shown, but with no sound.
Debris was blown by the force of the compressed air over several blocks. You saw the clouds of debris rolling down the street.
There were no bombs no matter how much the paranoid wackos want to believe.
See this link to read an INFORMED AND PROFESSIONAL opinion on how the buildings came down. Architectural Record on WTC
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