From eyewitness accounts of the firefighters involved before they died (as reported on the CBC television series Witness), one described his experience of the radiation as "tasting like metal", and feeling a sensation similar to that of pins and needles all over his face.
Das testemuñas dos bombeiros implicados antes de morrer (como aparece na serie de televisión da CBC Witness), un describe a súa experiencia sobre a radiación dicindo que "sabía como metal", e tiña unha sensación semellante á de ter agullas por toda a cara.