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Neighborhood, the freedom tower. world trade center one. the firehouse on duane street is busier than ever. only a handful from 9/11 are still there. one of them is john. >> the new guys coming on are just as good as the guys we had before. they're so eager to learn and work. now i'm one of the old guys in a firehouse. >> there's nothing like getting on a rig, hauling down broadway with lights and sirens. johnny mack, as he's called in the firehouse, had been there for eight years on september 11, 2001. >> it was just a terrible day and it's tough being the hero. that's why i don't like that w...

Tony. >> ladder one. >> but tony was still at the firehouse. >> no. i was off duty. >> now he'd been ordered to stay there. >> everybody's been recalled. all available units must come back with the firehouse. >> while tony tried to keep up with the phones, gideon took his camera and started walking down towards the trade center. he was sure his brother was inside and he wanted to get to him. >> what really stick in my mind is passing by people and filming them and filming their astonishment. we were fitting the camera back and forth between the people and the tower in front of me .

Opportunity. >> apparently the pilot who flew the plane into the pentagon, it was among us for a couple of years. how could he be in our company culture and walk amongst us and eat with us and not fall in love with any of us? i mean, it's beyond our mentality. >> the other building may come down. they've obviously evacuated the whole area as the result of the crash of one world trade center. now i'm told there's concern about the second one collapsing as well. plainly there has been an enormous amount of structural damage.

Way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. >> a very depressed dismal, miserable mood losing firemen, thousands are gone. as quickly as you blow a match out, it was gone, that's it. gone. >> it's hard to believe they're not there. they're not there. >> it did happen, right? it's not something that i'm going to close my eyes and open them again and i'm going to see the tower, right? it's not there.

Chief. >> i couldn't wait. i had to get down there. because you know what? they're my firefighters. it's my building. it's my city. got a flashlight? >> remember tony asking me to bring him some gloves, medical gloves. >> got a box of gloves, go get a box of gloves. >> i rush back. there were gon. >> the proby and the retired chief were lost in the crowd, headed down to the trade center. >> i think at that point, the lobby was pretty empty. there was just a few of us in the lobby and we were discussion tactics. >> tower one. tower one.