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And i do remember it seemed to take forever to fall. it just seemed to take a very, 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...

We needed to get hown and close to us. >> jasen's sister yells in desperation. >> i remember people yelling go faster, bring him down. but he couldn't. he was literally going as fast as he could. >> the crane operator lowers jasen into the river as firefighters battle the flames. >> i saw him lifeless hanging back. i was really, really scared. i didn't know what the situation was at that point. i knew it wasn't good. >> but then slowly joe chasny sees signs of life in his friend. ung urns out t b ly centimete from his body.

Front of thousands of people including his own family. [ screaming ] >> i didn't hesitate a nanosecond and i told that crane operator bring him down. we needed to get him down and close to us. >> jasen's sister yells in desperation. >> i remember people yelling go faster, bring him down. but he couldn't. he was literally going as fast as he could. >> the crane operator lowers jasen into the river as firefighters battle the flames. >> i saw him lifeless hanging back. i was really, really scared. i didn't know what the situation was at that point. i knew it wasn't good. >> but then slowly joe ch...

>> in a terrible turn of events, the flaming platform falls directly on to jasen and it seems he is burning alive in front of thousands of people including his own family. [ screaming ] >> i didn't hesitate a nanosecond and i told that crane operator bring him down. we needed to get him down and close to us. >> jasen's sister yells in desperation. >> i remember people yelling go faster, bring him down. but he couldn't. he was literally going as fast as he could. >> the crane operator lowers jasen into the river as firefighters battle the flames. >> i saw him lifeless hanging back. i was really...

Earth. when a crane takes a dive into a garage. 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 thought t...