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Know what tower one was and tower two. we were just trying to help them out by writing on the desk and making 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 filming chief pfeiffer and he's on the radio . . and water... full coverage.
>> did you hear what happened with the other tower? >> we saw. >> you saw the tower collapsed? >> looked like the whole thing. >> we'll head down >> i wonder for the first time if jules is still alive. i never thought about it before. >> it's a terrible, terrible day. >> i realized that jules could be dead at that very moment. i had to find jules. >> gedeon hitched a ride with three off-duty firemen determined to get to the trade center the only way they could. in a pickup truck.
First collapse. >> turns out tony had been with larry burns the whole time. the proby and the retired chief. they were right there when tower one came down. >> i checked all the rigs. there were rigs crushed, paramedics flipped. fires burning everywhere, huge fires. that whole day, i just searched through rubble, lifting things up, checking underneath. very hard. >> he proved himself that day to all the guys. >> yeah. ♪
Came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. >> very depressed, dismal, miserable mood. as much as you do a switch, it's 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. ♪ >> around midnight we sent tony
Of tower one, directing guys to the fastest way out of the building. >> i would say that chief pfeifer's brother saved my life. saved a lot of lives. and i remember walking down west street just remembering saying, you know, how much my brother and i used to love being downtown and doing this job. and -- and -- and how now i didn't love it anymore. >> eventually, we started going on runs again.