Lynn Tierney - Irish America
Tierney is one of four Deputy Commissioners at the Fire Department of New York. She is not a firefighter, yet she is widely loved within the mostly male FDNY...
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Tierney is one of four Deputy Commissioners at the Fire Department of New York. She is not a firefighter, yet she is widely loved within the mostly male FDNY...
They know what's going on. second plane -- >> now the chiefs would have to set up a whole other operation over in tower two. the second plane that's when we could see fear. you could see it in everybody's eyes. >> right there. >> what are you going to do? all the others are blocked out. the staircases must be -- right?
How bad is it up there that the better option is to jump. >> the fbi is now investigating reports of a plane hijacking before these crashes we're telling you about at the world trade center towers this morning. >> pieces of the building and the planes actually wound up blocks away. gideon was walking with his camera when he found a chunk of the plain engine that crashed completely through tower two. >> get out of here and just go. this is evidence. you're kicking stuff. what's the matter with you? >> that was as close as gideon would get to the trade center without a firefighter, anyway.
>> 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.
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.