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10 or 15 minutes to get the tank oriented correctly above the legs. >> the crane operator nearly 130 feet in the air lowers the container closer and closer while his co-workers guide its placement with the attached cables. as one of the men begins his climb down to the ground, the crane suddenly starts to shift. within seconds, to the horror of those watching below, the crane carrying the container gives way, colliding with the legs of the water tower. with cables breaking, the container drops, steel stanchions snapping like twigs. the crane and tower sway toward the spectators, the crane oper...

Because of a vehicle breakdown. we would have been two hours ahead of the accident. i believe everything happens for a reason. we were just in the right place at the right time. >> it was just amazing that it was there. i started to wonder like, okay, maybe angels wear camouflage. i don't really know, because it was bigger than me. bigger than me. >> just looking back on it, we were lucky at times having the seabees show up. it was miraculous they showed up to help us out. >> coming up, a crane operator makes a critical decision 220 feet above a raging inferno. >> there was no way i could go d...

Very long time for the top of the tower and the crane to hit the ground. >> schultz and local residents scramble to safety. >> get out of the way! >> i turned around from running. there was a lot of dust from it hitting. there were sparks, there was a nearby power line that had been hit. and, you know, i heard a lot of people screaming. i really didn't think there would be any survivors based on what i had seen. >> the tower lands just feet from a home, a gaping hole on its top where the crane slammed down. the twisted wreckage is scattered across the neighborhood. >> you could recognize that ...

I said i've got to get down there. in the rubble we found the crushed fire truck and we told the crane operator. he came over and we told him put that on the corner, which was bessie and west, which he did. >> i had choppered into the scene, into new york city with rudy giuliani and george pataki in the chopper. we took a quick motorcade to the ground zero area. i remember driving down the west side avenue lined with people, hoping that the country could recover. they view the president as a symbol of that potential recovery. giuliani said it's great they're

When a crane takes a dive into a garage. >> damn it! >> for electrician peter krause there's nothing unusual about a job wiring up a suburban swimming pool. he's done dozens of them in the six years he's worked for a minnesota electrical company. but on june 10th, 2011, he works on a pool installation that's far from ordinary. >> it's not every day that you install a continuous motion pool. they're not very common. and it's not every day that a crane lifts it up over the house. >> peter pulls out his phone to catch the process on camera. >> the main reason was just to show my son the clip. i t...