Video Shows Wyckoff, N.J. Woman's Tearful Homecoming After Escaping Brussels Terror

A video showed a New Jersey native's tearful homecoming after escaping terror at the Brussels airport where two explosions happened Tuesday.

Ashley Bruggemann of Wyckoff was reunited with her family at Newark Liberty International Airport Wednesday, the WABC-TV video below shows.

When a gunman had first stormed the airport, Bruggemann told the stattion that her first immediately thought was, "Where can I hide?"

She and the others were transferred from the terminal to a hangar. From there, Bruggemann was able to reach out to her family in New Jersey and let them know she was OK, according to the station.

Bruggemann, who works for a think tank called the German Marshall Fund in Washington, D.C., told The Record that she was in Brussels for business, describing her reaction as “just disbelief.”

She passed through the security checkpoint just 30 minutes, she told the newspaper,and was looking for coffee when the scene at the terminal suddenly turned chaotic.

“I like to get to airports early,” she said in an interview. “They say that the one blast was right in front of the Starbucks kiosk and that’s where I walked into the airport, so it just kind of shakes you up a little bit.”

Here is the video:

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