On Monday, Joshua Gomes went about business as usual. He woke up at 5 a.m. to have his retail store Brand Nubian open by 7 a.m., and when he heard the sound of sirens swell, he didn’t think anything of it. “I thought they were just doing a drill,” he said.
Then Gomes heard glass shatter and smelled smoke, and realized something was wrong.
“I heard the fire department breaking the glass and saw all the smoke coming out. Everybody was, of course, pulling out their phones, and I recorded some stuff. Never seen anything like that,” he said…