North Tower employee Teresa Veliz: [47th floor] “[T]he whole building shook. . . . the building shook again, this time even more violently….There were explosions going off everywhere. I was convinced that there were bombs planted all over the place and someone was sitting at a control panel pushing detonator buttons. . . . There was another explosion. And another. I didn't know where to run."

NBC television (from tapes recorded on 9/11 involving firefighters in the south tower):
Official: “Battalion 3 to dispatch, we've just had another explosion.”
Official: “Battalion 3 to dispatch, we've had additional explosion.”
Dispatcher: “Received battalion command. Additional explosion.”

Firefighter Louie Cacchioli: “[H]ow could this be happening so quickly [elevator doors blown out in north tower lobby] if a plane hit way above?” On 24th floor, “[we] heard this huge explosion that sounded like a bomb [and] knocked off the lights and stalled the elevator." Then, “another huge explosion like the first one hits. This one hits about two minutes later . . . [and] I'm thinking, "Oh. My God, these bastards put bombs in here like they did in 1993!"

BBC Correspondent Steve Evans: "I was at the base of the second tower . . . that was hit. . . . There was an explosion. . . . The base of the building shook. . . . [T]hen there was a series of explosions."

NJ Fire Police Dept. Officer Sue Keane: [south tower] "[I]t sounded like bombs going off. That's when the explosions happened. . . . I knew something was going to happen. . . . It started to get dark, then all of a sudden there was this massive explosion." [north tower] "[There was] another explosion. That sent me and the two firefighters down the stairs. . . . I can't tell you how many times I got banged around. Each one of those explosions picked me up and threw me. . . . There was another explosion, and I got thrown with two firefighters out onto the street."

Paramedic Kevin Darnowski: "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."

Emergency Medical Technician Gregg Brady: "I heard 3 loud explosions. I look up and the north tower is coming down now."

Firefighter Thomas Turilli: [south tower] “[I]t almost sounded like bombs going off, like boom, boom, boom, like seven or eight."

Firefighter Craig Carlsen: “[We] 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."

(The 9/11 Oral Histories were recorded by the NYC Fire Dept. in December, 2001, but not published until 2005, after the NY Supreme Court ordered their release. The 9/11 Commission, although it published its Report in 2004, did have access to these records. Yet, none of these testimonies, nor prior testimonies, made it into the official report, nor did the official report hint at the existence of eye-witness accounts running counter to the official conspiracy theory.)