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We were in one. they told us to get out. >> two fell first? >> yeah, two fell first. >> one didnt fall first? >> thats why they were getting us out. >> we got to call our loved ones and tell them we were okay. >> it was sick. we just got out. i got two blocks and im like, im still not far enough. >> you just needed to be with the guys, you know. >> i couldnt get back in. they wouldnt let me up. >> i was never so glad to see firemen in my life. it was a great thing to know that people were surviv...

>> and trying our best to love the job again. but things will never be the way they were. >> as for jules and gedeon, its strange how things work out. in the beginning, they came to me and said, lets make a documentary about a boy becoming a man. during this nine-month probationary period, turns out tony became a man in about nine hours trying to help out on 9/11. >> you know how you could tell that? hes not bragging about it. >> do i feel like its given me more of a sense of self-worth? yes. ha...

Neighborhood, the freedom tower, world trade center one. the fire house on dewayne street is busier than ever. only a handful from 9/11 are still there. one of them is john. >> the new guys that are coming on are just as good as the guys we had before. theyre so eager to learn and work. now im one of the old guys in the fire house. >> the fire house now responds to nearly 6,000 emergencies a year. >> theres nothing like getting on the rig, pulling down broadway with the lights and sirens. >> joh...

♪ ♪ >> i just realized something that i always wanted to deny, how evil, evil can be.

Like, im going to work with you. he never said no. he never said, no, i dont want you being a firefighter. no, you cant be a firefighter. like, girls cant be firefighters. he never told me that. he would just smile. i always remember he would just look down at me and smile. >> josephine is now 1 of 53 women on the job with more than 11,000 men. >> im small and petite, but i can still do the job. i want them to be able to trust me that i can have their back just as much as they can have my back. ...

Transportation hub with its startling sculpture oculus. its the most expensive train station ever built. cost -- $4 billion. safety for the rebuilt area, as well as all of new york city, rests on the shoulders of fdny commissioner daniel nigro. >> since 9/11, buildings have become stronger, and the record of high-rise buildings is that they are safe. as the city continues to grow vertically, and thats happening at such a rapid pace, we hope we have the ability to keep up with it, but it is certa...

Figure out what took place here, and then try to gain some control. it was just a sense that this wasnt a good place to stay. >> chief pfeiffers priority was to set up a new command post and find his men. right now, they were coming down the stairs. >> at some point, i started to run. i dont even know if i was touching stairs on my way down. when i got about to three or two is when i started to think about my family. i got to get out of here. >> when we reached the lobby, i joked about it. i sai...

>> i think at that point the lobby was pretty empty. there were just a few of us in the lobby, and we were discussing tactics. >> this is tower one. >> this is tower one. >> some of the outlying companies didnt know what tower one was and tower two. so we were just trying to help them out by writing it on the desk to make it obvious to people. >> it was just before 10:00. a little over an hour since the first plane hit. firefighters from all over the city were inside those towers. hundreds of th...

>> seen the pentagon. >> for us, we didnt have a clue. >> on top of everything else, just talking to the guys in the stairwells was tough. >> battalion 7. >> the towers internal communication setup had been knocked out by the crash. that left fire department radio. suddenly you have hundreds and hundreds of firefighters that have radios. seems to become more and more difficult. then one guy who was trying frantically to reach anyone on the elevators. >> is there anyone in this car?

Sort of a cliche, but really september 11th started out like every other day. i was off that day. 13 guys from my firehouse were on. >> around 8:30. >> engine, ladder. >> i believe the run came in. >> get the run for a gas leak or an odor of gas in the street actually, i think it was. odor of gas. you dont think anything of it. you get on the rig and go. okay. its an odor of gas. >> jules was riding with the battalion chief joseph fifer, videotaping. >> just another call. im riding with the batt...