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That's when it got crazy. the ice broke. the kids, we all went right in. >> now six firefighters, two police officers, and the two children fight to stay afloat. >> it seemed like an eternity. >> there was no way that we were going to let these kids go. >> rescuers onshore scramble to pull everybody to safety, and miraculously everybody, including the kids, make it back to solid ice and eventually to shore, more than 20 minutes after they fell in. >> they had very little strength. even when we got them to the shore, they couldn't walk. we had to carry them. >> the children are rushed to the ho...

>> i remember we started taking off people's shirts and pouring some of the water that the drinking water on them or soaking their tee shirts in ice water, putting them back on there. >> give me that glass of water. my arm is burning. >> we had to triage and get the worst ones we to the needed to go to the hospital. okay, the ones that the skin was coming off. and couldn't walk or burned, you know, more than 25, 30% of their body. >> the oil tank catches fire hours earlier. lisa stewart is one of the first responders. >> the flames were shooting up hundreds of yards and the plaque smoke was ju...

The associated violence. >> i had to fight somebody. and the reason i had to fight them was because at first i said i wasn't going to fight. it being my second or third day in prison, i was informed that if you didn't fight, it would put me at risk. i just accepted where i was and what i was going to have to do and it wasn't going to kill me, and so i -- i fought. and that was pretty much the first fight i've ever been in in my life. i couldn't walk very well for about three or four weeks. i had bruised ribs, bruised kidneys. i had black eyes for about six weeks. what i do to get by here is i ...

I started to deteriorate as well. the cancer started to spread. i was like a skeleton with skin, that was it. because i weighed about 80, 85 pounds. and i had these big open skin lesions, one here on my neck, one under my arm. i had tumors, some of them the size much of lemons throughout my liymphatic system. >> do you remember one of your worse days, i mean physically, what that felt like? >> oh, towards the end, my worst days, i couldn't walk anymore. my muscles, like in my legs, had completely deteriorated. but one day it was actually february 1st, 2006. i was just so tired of fighting to s...

Think, one of the messages. and we heard this yesterday from him as well, talking about simplicity and focusing, i think, as we're watch being the processional i should say. he's focused more on simplicity and less on sort of i guess the material aspects of christmas. what do you think, father beck? how do you expect this to be different than past years? >> well, one difference maybe, is with remember with pope benedict, he was infirm toward the end and couldn't walk down that aisle. he was on a platform and was pulled down. and even though pope francis just turned 77 years old and only has on...