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>> some outsideline companies didn't know what tower one was and tower two. so we were just trying to help them out by writing it on the desk to make it obvious to people. >> it was just before 10:00, a little over an hour since the first plane hit. firefighters from all over the city were inside those towers, hundreds of them. >> i remember i'm filming chief peiffer and he's on the radi o.
>> i used to come over the bridge from staten island and come to work and look at the skyline. for a long time there was nothing there. now actually it's -- it fills a void. it just makes you proud. show you we're not going to stand for it. >> dennis retired in 2002. >> even if 9/11 never happened, it's a tough job to leave. there's no other job like i. the brotherhood, camaraderie. he says not a day goes by without remembering. >> when my hid hits the pellow at night, i can see that plane hitting that tower. >> it's hard to believe they're not there. they're not there. >> that's etched in my ...
As well as anybody. but nobody, nobody expected september 11 . >> on that day, guys from my firehouse, my best friends were some of the first firefighters in the tower one after the plane hit.
History. that day we were chosen to be the witness. >> the strange thing is, the tape, the whole story, it kind of happened by accident. i mean, we didn't mean to make a documentary about 9/11. we wanted to make a documentary about a firefighter. that's how the whole thing got started. >> one, two, three, four. >> more to the point, the plan was to follow a rookie on the job. we coal them probies. almost like a kid become a man in nine months. >> my name's paul. >> i'm john. >> antonio. >> tony. >> i was a police officer for a while i was a pizza man, actually, a pays man runs.
The demand post, sending guys upstairs. one of the men who went up was lieutenant kevin piefr who was in charge of engine 33 and was the chief's brother. >> i just remember we both looked at each other, said add few words and -- but it was more of a look of real concern that this was going to be something tough. it's going b to a tough job. it's going to be a long job. they'll put it out. that's what they do. the last time jewels had seen his brother was an hour ago at the firehouse. as far as jewels knee, he'd followed tony, the proby into the tower. so my brother is going up the stairs. >> i...