World Trade Center 9/11 Burn Victims – 4 weeks later

BUSANA MUTATANA, WTC BURN VICTIM: . . .so I fell down after 10 feet off of the building on the west side. Yeah, and just lie down there, just few seconds, I feel like a heat swept through my back and my skirt. I feel like very, very, hot, you know, heat swept through like that. I kind of turned my face to the side, and I see the kind of sand storm and the ball of fire coming out from the building, like huge.

KING: Came out from the main floor of the building?

MUTATANA: Yeah, came out from there, the west gate of the building, and with that I saw girls and many others who usually smoke in the morning before they go in to work, blew away with that fire on their back and their hair. Everybody was just go, like, screaming. ////

ARTURO GRIFFITH: Well, I was on my way from B-2 to 49th floor. And as I took off, it was amount it was a matter of seconds — five, six, seven seconds, I don’t know. And there was a loud explosion and the elevator dropped. And when the elevator dropped there was a lot of debris and cables falling on top of the elevator. And I just — I just put my hand over my said and I said, oh God I’m going to die. But I didn’t know what was happening.

When the elevator finally stopped, they had an explosion that bring the doors inside the elevator, and I think I’m sure that that was what broke my leg. And then they had another explosion and the panel that threw me, you know, against the wall, and I guess I was unconscious for a couple of minutes because somebody else was in the elevator with me, and they say that they was trying to get my attention and they didn’t get no response from me. ///

aired 6 Oct. 2001, Int’l Center for 9/11 Studies NIST FOIA, 911datasets.org Release 27 folder 42A0196 – G26D55