Some people were already trying to leave and others were just sitting there going 'Yeah that's great!' and I remember that statement because I was like, 'This is not great, this is time to leave.'

Now there's another layer of management that has to approve things. We'll just have to hope Home Depot will be the good corporate citizen that Hughes has been.

It was that fast. As soon as the pyrotechnics stopped, the flame had started on the egg-crate [foam] backing behind the stage and it just went up the ceiling and people stood and watched it,

I went back around the front again and that's when you saw people stacked on top of each other trying to get out of the front door. And by then the black smoke was pouring out over their heads, out the side windows on the other side.

We leaned forward and let organizations know what we have to send out. We are ready to take it (the mission) on and do the job.

We worked real hard in practice all week, and that's where it starts.