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Neighborhood, the freedom tower. world trade center one. the firehouse on duane street is busier than ever. only a handful from 9/11 are still there. one of them is john. >> the new guys 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 a firehouse. >> theres nothing like getting on a rig, hauling down broadway with lights and sirens. johnny mack, as hes called in the firehouse, had been there for eight years on september 11, 2...

Tony. >> ladder one. >> but tony was still at the firehouse. >> no. i was off duty. >> now hed been ordered to stay there. >> everybodys been recalled. all available units must come back with the firehouse. >> while tony tried to keep up with the phones, gideon took his camera and started walking down towards the trade center. he was sure his brother was inside and he wanted to get to him. >> what really stick in my mind is passing by people and filming them and filming their astonishment. we we...

Opportunity. >> apparently the pilot who flew the plane into the pentagon, it was among us for a couple of years. how could he be in our company culture and walk amongst us and eat with us and not fall in love with any of us? i mean, its beyond our mentality. >> the other building may come down. theyve obviously evacuated the whole area as the result of the crash of one world trade center. now im told theres concern about the second one collapsing as well. plainly there has been an enormous amou...

Way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. >> a very depressed dismal, miserable mood losing firemen, thousands are gone. as quickly as you blow a match out, it was gone, thats it. gone. >> its hard to believe theyre not there. theyre not there. >> it did happen, right? its not something that im going to close my eyes and open them again and im going to see the tower, right? its not there.

Chief. >> i couldnt wait. i had to get down there. because you know what? theyre my firefighters. its my building. its my city. got a flashlight? >> remember tony asking me to bring him some gloves, medical gloves. >> got a box of gloves, go get a box of gloves. >> i rush back. there were gon. >> the proby and the retired chief were lost in the crowd, headed down to the trade center. >> i think at that point, the lobby was pretty empty. there was just a few of us in the lobby and we were discuss...

That felt pretty good. i left here right after the first collapse. >> turns out tony had been with larry burns the whole time. the probie and the retired chief. . they were right there when tower one came down. >> i checked on the rigs, there were rigs crushed, paramedics covered with rubble, fires burning everywhere. huge fires. that whole day i just searched through, lifting chings up, checking underneath. its hard. very hard. >> hes only been a firefighter for a couple of months, but he prove...

Blurted out as loud as i could, if you hear my voice, youre still alive, every man get your face under your shirt right now, come on do it, do it. >> true spirits rising from the earth, what i feel though i wish can now be reversed. the terrorists know can never defeat of the peace that we share and the people we love. thank you. share and the people we love thank you. >> well try and talk to some of these guys. >> this is the scene in lower manhattan where the upper floors of the world trade ce...

Point. we were out of the building. felt we were safe. >> there were people jumps out of windows. you could see them hitting the ground around you, debris hitting the ground. >> lets move, come on, officers! >> basically, everyone was stack in the shadow of tower one. it was 10:28 in the morning. >> this huge roar. >> and i dont even have time to think at that point. i just run. then i feel someone jumping on

>> inside the world trade center as the first tower fell. on a day well never forget. >> in tower one, evacuate the building. >> 9/11. >> for some, september 11, 2001 seems a lyft ago. for others, it was just yesterday. but for everyone in this country, the ruthless attack that happened on that clear sunny day is seared in our minds. good evening. im denis leary. the entire nation gasped when the twin towers, reaching high into the sky, single bottoms of success were brought crashing down when t...

Could. if you guys can hear my voice, that means youre still alive. what that means is every man get your face in your shirt right now. come on, do it, do it! >> true spirits, rising from the earth, may the terrorists know they never can defeat itself, the peace that we share and the people who le we love. thank you. >> im going to try to talk to some of these guys. >> this is the scene in lower manhattan where the upper floors world trade center tower one apparently have completely collapsed. >...