Eyewitness Inside WTC 7 Reported Explosions Before Collapse
Prison Planet Monday, April 30, 2007
An eyewitness who evacuated WTC 7 before its collapse reported an explosion inside the building, before exiting via the lobby which had been almost completely destroyed - before either of the twin towers had collapsed nearly 400 yards away in the WTC complex.
This testimony severely undermines the flawed explanation that Building 7 collapsed as a result of the damage it sustained following the collapse of the towers, since the structure was seemingly being gutted by explosives prior to 9:59AM.
WTC 7 was not hit by a plane but collapsed in a perect implosion in its own footprint at 5:20PM.
From a September 11, 2001 Associated Press report.
After the initial blast, Housing Authority worker Barry Jennings, 46, reported to a command center on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center. He was with Michael Hess, the city's corporation counsel, when they felt and heard another explosion. First calling for help, they scrambled downstairs to the lobby, or what was left of it. "I looked around, the lobby was gone. It looked like hell," Jennings said.
Yesterday, we featured newly uncovered close-up footage that shows limited fires burning in WTC 7 immediately before its collapse.
After the initial blast, Housing Authority worker Barry Jennings, 46, reported to a command center on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center. He was with Michael Hess, the city's corporation counsel, when they felt and heard another explosion. First calling for help, they scrambled downstairs to the lobby, or what was left of it. "I looked around, the lobby was gone. It looked like hell," Jennings said.
More details:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a930oemevac "Most of Building 7 of the World Trade Center was evacuated around the time the South Tower was hit (see After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001). However, firefighters find three individuals who have become trapped inside it. Among them are Barry Jennings, a City Housing Authority worker, and Mike Hess, New Yorks chief lawyer who is also a longtime friend of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The two had gone up to the 23rd floor headquarters of the Mayors Office of Emergency Management some time before 10 a.m., but found it empty. (It was evacuated at 9:30 a.m.; see 9:30 a.m. September 11, 2001.) They headed downstairs but became trapped around the sixth floor by smoke and debris that filled the staircase as a result of the North Tower collapsing at 10:28 a.m. After breaking a window and calling for help, they were spotted by firefighters outside. When the firefighters go in, they also find a security officer for one of the businesses based in the building, who is trapped on the 7th floor by the smoke in the stairway. Why this guard did not evacuate earlier, along with the rest of WTC 7, is unknown. All three men are escorted out of the building. [New York Times, 11/21/1997; Associated Press, 9/11/2001; Giuliani, 2002, pp. 20-21 and 244; Penn State Public Broadcasting, 3/1/2002; National Institute of Standards and Technology)), 6/2004, pp. L-18 pdf file; National Institute of Standards and Technology, 9/2005, pp. 109-110"
Yesterday, we featured newly uncovered close-up footage that shows limited fires burning in WTC 7 immediately before its collapse.
That video only shows the side of the building away from where the WTC tower debris struck WTC7 and caused it to start burning. Here are videos showing large amounts of smoke coming from the other side of the building.
I certainly hope that before visitors to 4um believe the nonsense theory promoted by the 9/11 Truthers, they look at other sources of information ... like these:
The two had gone up to the 23rd floor headquarters of the Mayors Office of Emergency Management some time before 10 a.m., but found it empty. (It was evacuated at 9:30 a.m.; see 9:30 a.m. September 11, 2001.) They headed downstairs but became trapped around the sixth floor by smoke and debris that filled the staircase as a result of the North Tower collapsing at 10:28 a.m.
What were they doing in an empty EMO from "some time before 10 a.m." until, supposedly, after the "North Tower collapsing at 10:28 a.m."?
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