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Nothing but challenges for ten months. shay got through the summer, pretty about summer, and they feel like they're over the hump, and then something like this happens, makes everybody feel their vulnerability. >> he thanked the 400 plus firefighters out here battling his blaze, and construction crews, trace, who had to chop through not one area but two parts of the boardwalk to create firelines to keep the fire from continuing to spread north, and it did work. the second pass they cut through the boardwalk worked ask they were able to contained. >> trace: as the firefighters look around do we...

By the towers, themself, still in one piece the survivors staircase, an escape route responsible for saving as many as 25,000 lives. >> something like 25,000 people got out. these shairs stairs help tell that story. >> still under wraps, a 36-foot-tall beam known as the last column. >> it's covered in graffiti and miamis from first responder agencies, construction crews. it chokes the amount of the breadth and depth of people that worked on this pile. >> reporter: there are symbols of heroism of the first responders, like that of engine 21 and captain billy burke. >> reporter: the south tower ...

Bad to worse. >> so this is probably one of the largest fires atlanta has seen in 25 years. it actually started generating its own wind which is close to firestorm conditions. >> construction crews on the ground have safely evacuated the building. but sims can only look down helplessly upon a sea of flames. his only means of escape is cut off. >> most of the crane is built with steps and how you get up and down every day. the crane was sitting close to the building and there was no way i could go down past the flames and get down those steps. >> and time is not on sims' side. the fire advances...

The stairs and go into the room where he was actually killed. >> but not for long. a few months after the raid, undercover of darkness, construction crews demolished the place. >> the pakistanis tried to destroy evidence and they decided to dig up the bricks from the foundation. >> they collected a small chunk what had been the main base of the compound. a building where navy seals gunned him down. >> there we go. it has taken quite a bit of hammering. >> he was in pakistan. this brick becomes a way for the rest of us to experience the historical significance. >> he donated the link to the 9/1...

>> okay. >> they were all shopping. there was actually like clothes that you could see against the wall and stuff. >> and how long before officials arrived in terms of how long you and some of the other construction crews were helping to pull some of these people out of the debris? >> the first fire company arrived three to five minutes after. and then afterwards no one showed up for another ten minutes or so. and then there was a lot of people, firefighters, and they came. and then they told all of the people from the street that were trying to help to leave. >> how many people were you succe...