TURILLI, THOMAS P.4-5: The door closed, they went up, and it just seemed a couple seconds and all of a sudden you just heard like it almost actually that day sounded like bombs going off, like boom, boom, boom, like seven or eight, and then just a huge wind gust just came and my officer just actually took all of us and just threw us down on the ground and kind of just jumped on top of us, laid on top of us. There were rocks falling and all that. The lights were still on at that point and all of a sudden the lights went out and you couldnt see anything. P.5: He said to the guy -- this is before the actual collapse happened. He said to him stay here with us, stay here with me, because if this elevator closes, I dont have any tools. As soon as he said that, the elevator closed and thats when the actual collapse of the building happened. P.6: In about another 25 feet to 30 feet, there was windows, I guess, lobby, ground-level windows that were blown out, and we just walked out of there. ... At that point we were kind of standing on the street and I looked to my left and actually I noticed the tower was down. I didnt even know what it was when we were in there. It just seemed like a huge explosion. P.7 la police est bien renseignée: Then we started walking actually back towards Tower 1 and a cop and a Battalion Chief came up to us and said just start running the other way. The other tower is coming down. Q. Who told you this; a cop? A. A cop and a Battalion Chief. We were kind of like standing next to them. I stayed with him -- I was with the Battalion Chief at one point and I started running up the street and I kind of lost track of all the guys I was with. P.7-8 We started running, myself, the Battalion Chief, the cop, my Lieutenant was with me at that point, up West Street, and you just heard a rumbling, a huge amount of rumbling, and I just dove under a car, and I was with a guy from I think 138 Truck. The tower came down, the second tower came down, and then just a lot of chaos, you know, the same thing it was like inside, it was dust and all that other stuff flying around. I think it was like five minutes before things cleared up, and I saw a light and it was just the light of a rig, the flashing lights, and then it seemed like more and more guys were coming out of the cars or wherever they were hiding. graphics8.nytimes/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html
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