First-hand Accounts of Underground Explosions In The North Tower (&S)

[philb]

First-hand Accounts of Underground Explosions In The North Tower (& South Tower) http://st12.startlogic.com/~xenonpup/underground/underground_explosions.htm
Stationary Engineer Mike Pecoraro http://www.chiefengineer.org/article.cfm?seqnum1=1029
Construction worker Phillip Morelli http://ny1.com/pages/RRR/911special_survivors.html

there are also others

there clearly were major explosions in the basements before the building collapsed.

[philb]

1. Firefighters describe Ground Level Explosions at WTC towers

FIREFIGHTER PATRICK MARTIN
WTC2
My lieutenant said he looked down at the first floor, and he could see the first floor of the south tower like exploding out. I looked up. I looked up, and the sky was filled with that debris cloud.


Stephen Gregory , Assistant Commissioner (F.D.N.Y.) flashes, explosions p 14
I know I was with an officer from Ladder 146, a Lieutenant Evangelista, who ultimately called me up a couple of days later just to find out how I was. We both for whatever reason -- again, I don't know how valid this is with everything that was going on at that particular point in time, but for some reason I thought that when I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down, before No. 2 came down, that I saw low-level flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista, never mentioning this to him, he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I thought -- at that time I didn't know what it was. I mean, it could have been as a result of the building collapsing, things exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down.

Q. Was that on the lower level of the building or up where the fire was?
A. No, the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's what I thought I saw. And I didn't broach the topic to him, but he asked me. He said I don't know if I'm crazy,

EMT JASON CHARLES FILE No. 9110486
WTC1 Ground level explosion before it fell
WE GET TO THE BACK WE DONT EVEN GET TO THE BACK OF THE BUILDING WE START WALKING BACK THERE AND THEN I HEARD GROUND LEVEL EXPLOSION AND IM LIKE HOLY SHIT AND THEN YOU HEARD THAT TWISTING METAL WRECKAGE AGAIN THEN SAID SHIT AND EVERYBODY STARTED RUNNING

Police Lieutenant Michael Murphy Handwritten report. Pages 3&4 (pa-police-reports01.pdf pages 10-11) http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=38371
“…We came upon the NYPD Chief of Detectives with a couple of his men. They appeared to be appraising the situation. We proceeded past them and were within a block of WTC when a couple of loud explosions occurred in front of us.”

FIREFIGHTER KEVIN MURRAY
WTC1
We got up to the fifth floor and there was severe damage. The ceilings had come down, some walls had caved in . Major sprinkler damage. Then we went to the sixth floor and did the same t h i n g . Same sort of damage up there .

[philb]

2. 3 Janitors at WTC witnessed massive basement explosions

A second WTC maintenance worker has now come forward with eye-witness testimony that a massive explosion erupted in the lower levels of the north tower at approximately the same time the jetliner struck the tower's top floors.
Jose Sanchez, 45, of New Jersey in a never-released tape recorded statement made in early 2002 to William Rodriguez, the first WTC maintenance man to claim a bomb exploded in the north tower basement, said he heard what sounded like a "huge bomb," causing lights to flicker on and off, while he worked in a small sub-level 4 workshop.
While arguments continue in the scientific community about the structural cause of the WTC collapse, Sanchez's eye-witness testimony adds more credibility that explosives were placed and detonated in the lower level of the north tower.
In the 2002 taped statement, Sanchez recalls, at the same time Rodriguez and the others heard the explosion, being in a small sub-level 4 workshop with another man who he only knew by the name of Chino when, out of nowhere, the blast sounded as the two men were cutting a piece of metal.
"It sounded like a bomb and the lights went on and off," said Sanchez in the tape recording. "We started to walk to the exit and a huge ball of fire went through the freight elevator. The hot air from the ball of fire dropped Chino to the floor and my hair got burned," said Sanchez in the tape recording. "The room then got full of smoke and I remember saying out loud 'I believe it was a bomb that blew up inside the building.'
"I said 'Chino, let's go we gotta get out of here.' But Chino was wounded and told me he needed help. I remember him saying that the hot air came with such force that it broke his leg. We finally went out through another exit and his leg and knee were both broken."
Sanchez, all the time helping Chino, then recalls exiting into a parking lot on sub-level 4 where he encountered a group of other people also trying to flee. In the parking lot, a person assisted the pair, wrapping Chino's leg with a bandage from a first aid kit.

[pox americana]

3. I'm glad they got out.

It seems like the only people not in on the scam were the office and building workers and first responders who got vaporized for doing their jobs.

It always struck me as odd that the head of Cantor Fitzgerald happened to be late to work on 9/11 because he was driving his kid to school.

[Nihil]

4. True (but they were just "ordinary people", not "the leaders")

> It always struck me as odd that the head of Cantor Fitzgerald happened
> to be late to work on 9/11 because he was driving his kid to school.

Not to mention the crowd of fat-cats over at the airbase ...