ZEITGEIST: THE MOVIE

“[I]t was [like a] professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear ‘Pop, pop, pop,
pop, pop’.”
--Paramedic Daniel Rivera
“First I thought it was an explosion. I thought maybe there was a bomb on the plane, but delayed type of thing, you know
secondary device. . . . I just heard like an explosion and then a cracking type of noise, and then it sounded like a freight
train, rumbling and picking up speed, and I remember I looked up, and I saw it coming down.” --Firefighter Timothy Julian
“[W]e heard a rumble, some twisting metal, we looked up in the air, and . . . it looked to me just like an explosion. It didn’t
look like the building was coming down, it looked like just one floor had blown completely outside of it. . . . I didn’t think
they were coming down. I just froze and stood there looking at it.” -Michael Ober
“There was what appeared to be at first an explosion. It appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all four sides,
materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemed to be a momentary delay before you could see the beginning of the
collapse.”
--Chief Frank Cruthers
“I felt the ground shake, I turned around and ran for my life. I made it as far as the Financial Center when the collapse
happened.”
--Lonnie Penn
“Shortly before the first tower came down,” he said, “I remember feeling the ground shaking. I heard a terrible noise, and
then debris just started flying everywhere. People started running.” Then, after they had returned to the area, he said, “we
basically had the same thing: The ground shook again, and we heard another terrible noise and the next thing we knew
the second tower was coming down.” --Lieutenant Bradley Mann
“I started walking back up towards Vesey Street. I heard three explosions, and then we heard like groaning and grinding,
and tower two started to come down.” --Paramedic Kevin Darnowski
“I heard 3 loud explosions. I look up and the north tower is coming down now.”
Gregg Brady
“it almost sounded like bombs going off, like boom, boom, boom, like seven or eight.” – Thomas Turilli
“heard explosions coming from building two, the south tower. It seemed like it took forever, but there were about ten explosions.
. . . We then realized the building started to come down.” --Craig Carlsen
“As my officer and I were looking at the south tower, it just gave. It actually gave at a lower floor, not the floor where the
plane hit. . . . [W]e originally had thought there was like an internal detonation, explosives, because it went in succession,
boom, boom, boom, boom, and then the tower came down.” --Edward Cachia
“Somewhere around the middle of the World Trade Center, there was this orange and red flash coming out. Initially it was
just one flash.”
--Captain Karin Deshore
“Then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode. The popping
sound, and with each popping sound it was initially an orange and then a red flash came out of the building and then it
would just go all around the building on both sides as far as I could see. These popping sounds and the explosions were
getting bigger, going both up and down and then all around the building.”
--Captain Karin Deshore
“I was . . . hearing a noise and looking up. . . . [T]he lowest floor of fire in the south tower actually looked like someone had
planted explosives around it because . . . everything blew out on the one floor. I thought, geez, this looks like an explosion
up there, it blew out.”
--Battalion Chief Brian Dixon
“It was weird how it started to come down. It looked like it was a timed explosion.”
--Battalion Chief Dominick DeRubbio,