Moments later my nose is greeted with waves of lingering smoke as well as synthetic deodorant and laundry detergent.
"At about 4 30 p.m., I felt the house shake strongly, and the windows disconnected from the wall and the doors were destroyed, and then a wave of red smoke covered the house, and a piece of wood hit me in my back and my head, and I lost consciousness," Mr. Mushtaq said.
Waves of thick, oily smoke were billowing from a gash in the north tower, not far above his office.
"No plastic bags, no aluminum foil, no children," Nathan Rothschild, Monsey's fire commissioner, joked as people, about two-thirds of them Hasidim in traditional black garb, approached a giant trash bin, waves of heat and smoke pouring into the sky, with loaves of rye bread, crackers and cookies, boxes of cereal and other food to be burned before the Passover holiday began Wednesday evening.
In Nilin, though, the blue sky was clouded by waves of gas and plumes of smoke.
Jose Maldonado has all the basic tools: a ladder truck to lift him up and out toward the fire; a pumper to ensure nearly 800 gallons a minute is poured onto it; and his respirator, boots and other protective gear to guard against the roiling waves of heat and toxic smoke.
A new collection of serene video portraits called Deep Discovery involves images of beautiful women overlayed with footage of crashing waves, rising smoke, and running rivers.
Authorities believe the couple died of smoke inhalation after waves of fire, smoke and embers invaded their neighborhood on Thursday.
It's incredibly satisfying to examine the attention to detail they put into the waves of Loch Ness, the billowing smoke clouds of the Hindenburg zeppelin explosion, and the snow caps of Mount Everest made from common craft supplies like cotton, paper, and epoxy.
There is the prospect of being chased by runaway machinery, of raging infernos, rogue waves, toxic smoke and flying helicopter blades.
