Webpolice were serving a search warrant at a home in long branch friday night when they say walker shot a detective in the leg. He then barricaded himself inside. Webthe following account, the fall of the trade center told moment by moment and person by person, is drawn from the more than 600 interviews collected in the. Webeyewitnesses recalled explosions, no alarms or sprinklers. The collapses of the twin towers were witnessed firsthand by scores of people, most of. Webbelow, find nine such firsthand accounts of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki, collected here to mark the 75th anniversary of the attacks. Long branch police responded to. Webthe key organizing principle is embedded in the word “eyewitness. ” the events described were witnessed — or claimed to have been witnessed — by human.