by maggrwaggr » Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:47 pm
I just found this posted on DU. It's very interesting.<br><br>Cars and trucks were exploding for no apparent reason 10 blocks away from the towers about the time the towers fell.<br><br><br><br>FIRE PATROLMAN PAUL CURRAN <br><br>At that time I went back to the north tower again, and they were stretching a line. A lot of car fires erupted. All of a sudden cars were blowing up everywhere. <br><br>I went back and I helped a guy stretch a line. The guy was all by himself. I helped him stretch a line and started putting water on the car fires. I remember distinctly walking past 118 Truck. 118 Truck was parked right on West Street north of Vesey<br>*********************************************<br><br>EMT FREDDY BURGOS<br><br>When the first building came down, after the dust lifted from that one, in front of me, the other ambulances, most of them not Fire Department, private or some other ambulances, burning.<br><br>FIREFIGHTER RICHARD CARLETTI<br>Basically they wanted engines was booster tanks to come down and extinguish the car fires then going.<br><br>FIREFIGHTER RONALD CIFU<br>Even after the collapse when we were starting to relay water to the car fires. <br><br>many of the firemen reported this. Lots of the cars and fire engines and ambulances parked along West HW and Vesey and Liberty exploded.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/nyregion/nyregionspecial3">www.nytimes.com/pages/nyr...onspecial3</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> /<br><br>WORLD TRADE CENTER TASK FORCE INTERVIEW<br><br>EMT PATRICIA ONDROVIC File No. 9 1 10048<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110048.PDF">graphics8.nytimes.com/pac...110048.PDF</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>En route to the alarm, I saw the two towers burning. We parked in the middle of Vesey Street between West and the West Side Highway. My partner and I grabbed our stretcher, went to put it in the back of our vehicle, and at that time, I think it was the lobby of the building behind us blew out.<br><br>Everybody started running, I didn't see him again that day. He got thrown one way, I got thrown the other way. Stuffs blowing up. So I ran back out and I started running west again on Vesey. At that point, there was a car on the corner of the West Side Highway.<br><br>As I was running up Vesey, the first car blew up on me on the corner of Vessey and the West Side Highway. That set my turnout coat on fire, that set my hair on fire. I kept running. I ended up running through this park, and I couldn't even see where I was running anymore. I kept running North through North Park. As I was running up here, two or three more cars exploded on me. They weren't near any buildings at that point, they were just parked on the street. Stuff is still blowing up behind me, as I'm running. I can hear stuff exploding. I could hear rumbling, the street under me was moving like I was in an earthquake. (this was obviously when WTC2 fell). I've been in those, so I know what they feel like. It felt like an earthquake. There was no where safe to go. As I was running north in this park, and then I could start seeing again a little bit, and I just kept looking in the sky.<br>And firemen's fireproof coats-like this ladies and socks caught fire.<br> <br>RONALD COYNE EMT WTC2 <br>MY SAFETY COAT WAS ALREADY ON FIRE. MY SOCKS WERE ON FIRE<br>I was just covered with burns and bruises and I could hardly breathe.<br><br>********<br><br>What could have caused such things? Any ideas?<br><br>HEre are some photos:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/covalentbd/Terrorist41.jpg">img.photobucket.com/album...rist41.jpg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/covalentbd/Terrorist19.jpg">img.photobucket.com/album...rist19.jpg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/covalentbd/image012.jpg">img.photobucket.com/album...age012.jpg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/covalentbd/Terrorist17.jpg">img.photobucket.com/album...rist17.jpg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>