"I woke up in the morning and the sky was orange ... And then we started hearing the explosions."

"It was like a movie at first, like you see people panicking on TV all over town."

"There's nothing left."

"A whole town wiped off clean. This is the worst of all the disasters we have seen."

"We didn't take anything — our computer or our meds. But it's just things. At least we got out alive."

"I didn't think I was gonna make it out. I was one of the last ones in my family to make it out and I feel like I've been through a war."

"It was the nightmare of all nightmares."

"The miracle out of this is that we have come together as one."