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Its considered a last resort by firemen standards but one they knew they had to do. within seconds, jim lee was being lowered down, scaling the burning building. >> go to your right, jimmy, go to your right. >> he was burning, you could with hear him yelling. i remember seeing him look up at me with that hood up and i said "lets go." >> reporter: with the hope holding them beginning to burn -- >> lower it down nice and easy, lower them down. >> reporter: the team of firefighters successfully low...

20-year career. >> as a manhattan apartment building ignited in flames, more than 200 members of the fdny raced toward it. these five men among them. >> the roof was on fire. there was fire coming out of the shaft. there was fire at all around it. >> reporter: the firefighters never met before but that day, an 81-year-old man trapped in his home brought them together. >> frank called me and told me that we had a guy at the window. >> my thought was possibly a fire escape to try to get to him. bu...