Will Jimeno, Port Authority Police officer, will be speaking about his experience of being one of the last individuals to be rescued from the WTC complex on Sept. 11th at my college on Oct. 2nd. I am interested in asking a question that relates to the ground level explosions prior to the collapse of Tower 2. Will Jimeno has made it perfectly clear that he witnessed these explosions. Here are a few sources:

"That's when we heard a humungous boom. I turned around from were we came and I could look out into the lobby of 2 and I just saw a humungous fireball I mean the size of my house."
http://www.bowhunter.com/feature_articles_bn_fromtherubble.html
"I looked out onto the street and saw a fireball the size of my house hit the pavement."

John McLoughlin who was also trapped with Jimeno mentioned witnessing explosions too.

"We heard a loud explosion coming from the area of Building 2 and at that point Building 2 was collapsing."

The two officers portrayed in Oliver Stone's film "World Trade Center" were describing an explosion they heard come from the south tower before the tower fell on them. This aired last night on Extreme Makeover while the rest of the world was watching The Grammy's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJdEyIQZcYI

Hope you're all doing well.

Rob