
118 Witnesses: The Firefighters Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers. Daniel Rivera, South Tower: Then thats when I kept on walking close to the south tower and thats when that building collapsed. Q. How did you know that it was coming down? A. That noise. It was a noise. Q. What did you hear? What did you see? A. It was a frigging noise. At first I thought it was--do you ever see professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear pop, pop, pop, pop, pop? Thats exactly what--because I thought it was that. When I heard that frigging noise, thats when I saw the building coming down. The Body of Evidence According to Jim Dwyer of the New York Times, the FDNY oral histories were originally gathered on the order of Thomas Von Essen, the city fire commissioner on Sept. 11, who said he wanted to preserve those accounts before they became reshaped by a collective memory.The oral histories constitute about 12000 pages of testimony by 503 FDNY firefighters, emergency medical technicians and paramedics collected from early October, 2001 to late January, 2002. Mr. Von Essens prophetic act has given us a remarkably rich body of narrative material. Initially, the city of New York refused to release this material, but after a lawsuit by the New York Times and some of the 9/11 victims families the city was ordered to release them. The New York Times then posted them on its internet site, where they have been available (with some deletions) to the <b>...</b>
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