Lets Roll! 911 Made Simple :: View topic - Is this the lobby/basement explosion?

Lets Roll! 911 Made Simple :: View topic - Is this the lobby/basement explosion?: "Fox 5 News, a New York television channel, was able to catch on videotape a LARGE WHITE CLOUD BILLWOING OUT NEAR THE BASE OF THE SOUTH TOWER. The newsman commented: �THERE IS AN EXPLOSION AT THE BASE OF THE BUILDING...WHITE SMOKE FROM THE BOTTOM....SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED AT THE BASE OF THE BUILDING� then, another explosion. Another building in the World Trade Center complex�.� (Marrs 35)
Tom Elliott was at work at his desk in the offices of Aon Corp. on the 103rd floor of the South Tower just before 9 AM. When the North Tower was hit, he decided to leave the building and began walking down the stairs with a small group of people. At the 70th floor, Elliott was encouraged by a woman to disregard the announcement on the public address system that there was no need to evacuate. When Elliott had reached the 67th floor, United 175 struck the South Tower, above where he was. Elliott later told a reporter what he was able to observe after that: �Although its spectacularly televised impact was above Elliott, at first he and those around him thought an explosion had come from below. An incredible sound � he calls it an �exploding sound� � shook the building and a tornado of hot air and smoke and ceiling tiles and bits of drywall came flying up the stairwell. �In front of me, the wall split from the bottom up,� Elliott recounted. Elliott was able to get out of the South Tower by 9:40. (Christian Science Monitor, September 17, 2001)

At 11:56 AM, NBC News broadcast a segment in which reporter Pat Dawson summarized a conversation he had just had with Albert Terry of the FDNY. Terry had told the reporter that he had about 200 firefighters in the WTC buildings at around 9 AM. Then, Terry said, he had heard a kind"