I'm at work, so I can't view most of that stuff. But did you actually read what they were sourcing? Or did you just take what they cut out?
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NYC firefighter stated "the south tower . . . exploded . . . At that point a debate began to rage because the perception was that the building looked like it had been taken out with charges . . . many people had felt that possibly explosives had taken out 2 World Trade" (pages 6 & 7)
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From their perspective, it looked like the tower exploded about midway down. If they were at the bottom on the other side, they wouldn't have seen the second plane coming in. He was just refering to his first impression.
And phrases like "sounded like" "as if" "reminded me of" tell you that the speaker is about to use a simile. Go back to fourth grade and learn what that is.