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>> this is the type of job you see once in a 28-year career. >> reporter: manhattan apartment building ignited in flames more than 200 members of the fdny raced toward it, these five men among them. >> roof was on fire, fire out of the shaft, all around us. >> reporter: the firefighters never met before, but that day, an 81-year-old man trapped in his home brought them together. >> frank called me and told me that we had a guy at the window. >> my thought was possibly a fire escape to get to him. there was no rear fire escape in this old building. >> tied the rope to the roof. that's when andy...

Security? >> if his children are going to be his national security advisers, that's insane. this is what happens when -- he was elected partly because he didn't have any experience, right? this was a revolt against people who have experience, people who have been running things for a while. we shouldn't be shocked that all of a sudden he's relying on people without experience. but yeah, we should be concerned. i mean, the idea that his kids should be given -- i can't believe we're here discussing this, don. his children are going to get -- i should say that in the report, i did just see that a...

The world's tallest building still went on. like most of the world's major cities, dubai has been on high alert for possible terror attacks, but officials say so far, there's been no indications of terrorism involved. officials say 14 people were injured. joining me now on the phone, former new york city fire commissioner thomas von essen, in charge of the department at the time of the september 11th attacks. thank you for spending your new year's morning with us, sir, as we look into this. and you consider this and you consider the scale of this fire, how massive it was, how far up in floors ...

And i think probably most of it just burned itself out from the outside. but the inside, when they're worried about people being trapped, people being maybe overcome with smoke, the fire burning through, the heat breaking those windows and getting inside, whether or not the sprinkler system is working, whether it's keeping up with it, all the people that might be needing help inside. it's a very, very difficult fire operation. >> difficult fire helped also by the hotel, i understand, by some reports, was only 35% occupied, which certainly helped. i can imagine, besides the priority in getting ...

Feelings about whether the fireworks display should still take place with the backdrop of the address in flames? >> yeah, i will be very honest. when we can see the flames clearly from here. i have never seen the skyline in such glory as you have from here. i think what you're seeing at the moment is just repercussions of a planned fireworks display. and just had a domino effect on the building at the address. we have had confirmed reports that the government is sending a water taxi to the address building itself to try to help aid in getting that fire out. we have also been told that the