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You always see the trade center towers and everything. for a long time, there was nothing there. now actually it fills a void. it just makes you proud. we're not going to stand for it. >> dennis tardio retired in 2002. >> even if 9/11 never happened, it's a tough job to leave. there's no other job like it. the brotherhood, camaraderie. >> he says not a day goes by without remembering. >> when my head hits the pillow at night, i can see that plane hitting the tower. >> it's hard to believe they're not there. they're not there. >> that's etched in my mind and will always be there. >> the memorie...

>> upstairs in tower one, the guys from my firehouse were now ten floors up and climbing. >> if we did talk, it was to the people coming down, trying to comfort them, telling them that it's all right. get out. stay calm. >> i wind up finding a woman in the c staircase. her arms were all burnt. she was just sitting there, basically in shock. so i picked her up under her arms and i put her within a group of guys and i asked the guys to, you know, take her down. i knew we had to get up to help people. we had to get up there. >> people said pretty much why are you going up there? get out. >> their...

>> did you hear what happened to the tower? the tower collapsed. the top or the whole thing? >> looks like the whole thing. >> we'll head down together. >> now i wonder for the first time if he is still alive. i never thought about it before. >> a terrible, terrible day. >> i realized that we could be dead that very moment. i had to find june. >> gideon hitched a ride with three off-duty firemen determined to get to the trade center the only way they could. in a pickup truck.

Came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. >> it's a very depressed, dismal, miserable mood. hundreds of firemen, thousands of civilians are gone. as much -- as quickly as you blow out a match, flip a switch, they're gone. that's it. those buildings came down. 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

But nobody, nobody expected september 11th . >> on that day, guys from our fire house, my best friends were some of the first firefighters in the tower one after the plane hits -- what they did that day.