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>> yeah, you stay with me. >> come in with me. never leave my side. i go. and i hear screams. and right to my right there was two people on fire burning. i just didnt want to film that. it was like no one, no one should see this. >> pfeifer was the first chief into the building. right away a guy from the port authority told him the damage was somewhere above the 78th floor. but all you had to do was look around. it was obvious something had happened right there in the lobby. >> you just saw that...

They got out. >> we lost so much in that two-hour period. and we felt like we got the hell kicked out of us. >> i dont know what to do. go back down there or what? >> at the same time, we knew hundreds of firefighters, thousands of people had to have died in those towers. and every hour that passed, we were more certain tony was one of them. >> hey, guys. deputy chief hill called. first division. he doesnt want anybody else down there right now. >> but the truth is, the guys had to go back, had ...

That 9/11 dust. in 2006, we talked to retired chief larry burns about the gathering storm of disease. >> theres something out there cooking in all of us, and i fear for what ten years are going to bring us. >> and last year our beloved chief larry burns died from a 9/11 related cancer. the third from the dewayne street fire house. there are now 127 names inscribed at the fdny headquarters, firefighters who died from 9/11 related diseases. among them, john sullivan who died of pancreatic cancer. ...

And as the days would pass, tony waiting for his first fire, wanted to prove to the other guys and even more to himself that he was going to be a real great fireman. >> youre going to laugh about it. thats how we do it. >> its all part of learning how to handle people and situations. >> say you got up there now. you got your helmet on, your bunker gear, you got to get your mask on. how will you do that without letting go? >> i dont know. >> start moving, guys. >> hurry up. >> not bad. >> payday ...

>> mayday. >> mayday, mayday. >> there were two planes. i saw the second one hit. it hit the other tower. >> all we knew a second plane hit. and we had a lot of people trapped. >> stay together. stay together. >> second plane. >> now the chiefs would have to set up a whole other operation over in tower two. >> when the second plane hit, thats when you could see fear. >> both of them are on fire. >> you could see it in everybodys eyes.

You know every time you hear that crashing sound, its a life which is extinguished. its not something you can get used to. and the sound was so loud. >> i just remember looking up. thinking how bad it is up there that the better option is to jump? >> the fbi is now investigating reports of a plane hijacking before these crashes were telling you about at the world trade center towers this morning. >> pieces of the building and the planes actually landed blocks away. gedeon was walking with his ca...

Them could even comprehend.

>> do i feel like its given me more of a sense of self-worth? yes. has it made me a man? whats a man? >> i dont think its so much the severity of an event that alters who you are. i think its how you interpret it that changes who you are. >> we keep forgetting how many people were saved on that day. >> stay together. stay together. >> on 9/11, firefighters saved 20,000 people. >> to have that much respect for human life, im honored. sometimes i still dont think im worthy. but i am honored to be ...

Next attack will come from. tonight we meet again some of the firefighters from the documentary who live the true meaning of heroism every day of their lives. >> 15 years have passed. the firefighters of engine 7 and ladder 1 have a new responsibility soaring over the 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 th...

The tower? the tower collapsed. >> the top or the whole thing? >> looks like the whole thing. >> well head down together. >> i wonder for the first time if jules is still alive. into a