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ask your provider if cologuard is right for you. in the neighborhoods of new york, there are 217 fire houses, each holds a memorial to firefighters who answered the call 21 years ago, and never returned. as we first told you last

september, 343 members of the fire department of the city of new york perished on 9/11 in the greatest act of gallantry ever bestowed on an american city. this is their story. >> this plane raced past us along the hudson river at such a low altitude, i could read "american" on the fuselage. >> at 8:46 that morning, the battalion chief was blocks away searching for a routine gas leak. >> i saw the plane aim and crash into the north tower of the world trade center. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> from that moment, the firefighters of the fdny would

have about an hour and a half to save 17,000 lives. >> they knew that they might not come home, but they knew there were people trapped. that's our job. >> there's no way we were going to stand back and say we're not going in. that wouldn't be the fdny. >> our aim was to get those poor people out that were calling us. >> we're on the floor and we can't breathe and it's very, very, very hot. >> and all the dispatcher could say is, we're coming for you. so, we like to keep our promises. we told them we're coming, we're coming. >> joe pfeiffer was coming with a camera. film makers juls and gideon were making a documentary about the fdny. >> we have a number of floors on

fire that look like the plane was aiming towards the building. >> the world trade center tower number one is on fire. >> world trade center 1060, send every available ambulance, everything you got to world trade center now. >> dispatch launched an armada. >> engine 211, lateral 11. engine 44. engine 22, engine 53. >> reporter: 121 engines, 62 ladder companies, 100 ambulances, 750 members of the fdny. >> attention, 64 engine, 50 engine, 94 engine, 83 engine. >> reporter: at the headquarters in brooklyn, the 54-year-old chief of department raced to his car. he was the boss leading the second largest fire department in the world after tokyo.

dan nigro was his number two. >> so we went downstairs quickly, got in the car and headed over to the brooklyn bridge where we could see the damage, see the smoke, see the fire. that's when i said to pete, pete, this will be the worst day of our lives. and that was before i knew the half of it. >> reporter: pete's voice was recorded en route. >> transmit a fifth alarm. get us a staging area somewhere on west street. >> reporter: a box is a location. k signals the end of a message, a throwback to the 19th century telegraph, which, on this day, was punctuating the greatest crisis in the department's 136 years. >> right away, i got a deep sense that we were going to lose a lot of firefighters this day. >> reporter: division i commander peter hayden met

battalion chief joe pfeiffer in the lobby of the burning tower. >> while i knew we weren't going to be able to put out the fire. so the order of the day was to search and evacuate as many people as we could, and that we were going to back away. >> reporter: the fire was 93 floors above. elevators were out. so firefighters climbed tight stairwells, shouldering 75 pounds and more. >> i thought we would have enough time to get the people out. and everybody that was above the impact of the plane, we were pretty much -- were either dead already or going to die. there were a lot of people jumping out already. >> reporter: 1,355 people were trapped above the fire. the boeing 767 had severed all three stairwells, leaving one way out. >> jumpers.

>> division i be advised we have jumpers from the world trade center. >> we heard a loud thud. and i knew that was somebody that either fell or jumped from the building. >> reporter: the first firefighter killed was hit by a fellow human being. >> it was happening so rapidly that i grabbed the pa system at the fire command post, and i said, the firefighters are coming, if you can hold on. it's something that's going to haunt us probably for the rest of our lives. >> reporter: tour commander sal had arrived precisely 17 minutes after the north tower was hit. >> just as i got out of my car, i heard another explosion. and i can tell you exactly what time it was, it was 9:03 because that was the plane that hit the south tower. >> you have a second plane into the other tower. major fire.

mayday, mayday. a plane hit the second tower. k. >> reporter: the second 767 exploded into floors 77 through 85. now, 2,000 people were trapped a quarter mile high. he ran into the department chaplain michael judge. >> and i just told him, father, we're in for a bad day. we're going to need a lot more chaplains here. >> more and more firefighters kept coming in and they took their assignments in with no question. pretty tough to do. >> but it's also hard to give them those assignments. >> it was. it was. but i could tell when i gave the assignments out, i could see the look in their eyes. i remember seeing firefighters hugging each other and heading up. >> reporter: how many firefighters did you see that

day refuse to go up the stairs? >> nobody refused to go in. i could remember one lieutenant from engine 33 coming up to me and not saying a word. and we stood there wondering if we were both going to be okay. and that lieutenant was my brother kevin. and then i told him what i told many of the other fire officers. i said, go up to the 70th floor. >> reporter: 70, they hoped could be a staging area in the north tower. in less than half an hour, the fdny had rescue operations in the north tower, the south tower, and the nearly sold-out 800-room hotel between them. >> from the time the first plane hit the north tower until the second tower collapsed was 102 minutes.

the things that were going through pete's mind in just 102 minutes is just mind-boggling. >> reporter: sal was with chief of department pete ganci at his command post on the street below the towers. this is the only known picture of ganci that day. was ganci the kind of boss that you did things for because you feared him or because you desperately did not want to let him down? >> you did it because you love him. >> reporter: he joined the fdyn in 1968. what kind of man was peter ganci? >> uh, pete -- i guess people would say he's my alter ego. chest full of medals. and he was just a down to earth honest, hardworking guy.

he's a paratrooper in the army, worked his way up to be chief of the department in the fdny. quite a story. >> reporter: a story of courage over his 33-year career. he won the department's medal of valor crawling into a burning apartment on his hands and knees, grabbing a child who was certainly going to die, and dragging that child out and saving her life. >> that's the kind of person pete was. he would put people before himself without a doubt. >> reporter: he put his firefighters before himself three months before 9/11. ganci, the chief of department, responded from home to a call of firefighters trapped in a burning store. he went in wearing shorts and boat shoes. he once said his 11,000 firefighters were his children. on that day in queens, he lost three.

on 9/11, the man responsible for firefighters' safety was chief al touri, who was tormented by the passing minutes. >> let it burn up. >> reporter: he asked pete hayden if he had considered the threat of a partial, localized collapse on the burning floors? >> i said, yes. but we needed to get the people out. there were hundreds upon hundreds of people coming down the interior stairs. >> reporter: how much time did you think you had? >> i thought we had a couple of hours. >> reporter: the chiefs knew no steel high-rise in history had ever completely collapsed due to fire. >> none of us expected the building to come down. we expected the fire to keep burning and conditions to get worse, but if we could just get one route above in each building, perhaps we could bring some folks down at least. >> reporter: you just needed a

little more time? >> we just needed time. >> reporter: no one would do more with time than oreo palmer, that's him on the right with the mustache. he's receiving orders to go to the south tower to try to clear a path to the trapped souls calling 9-1-1. >> how many people are where you're at right now? >> there's like five people here with me. >> all up on the 83rd floor? >> 83rd floor. >> 32-year-old melissa was saying the hail mary prayer when 9-1-1 answered. the once aspiring ballerina was a manager for the financial firm on 83, one of the burning floors in the south tower. >> are they able to get some people up here? >> of course, we'll come up to you. >> there's no one here and the floor is completely engulfed. it's very, very, very hot. >> reporter: the operator was right. someone was rising toward

melissa doy. oreo palmer ran marathons as a hobby. >> 7-1-5. >> reporter: battalion palmer is chief palmer. ladder 1-5 is a team of firefighters a few floors below. >> what do you got up there, steve? >> 74th floor, no smoke. walls are breached, so be careful. >> reporter: this is ladder 15's lieutenant joe levy. >> we're on 71. we're coming up behind you. >> we're on 75. >> reporter: palmer found fire marshal ron bucca on the 75th floor evacuating civilians. >> 7-1-5. >> 1-5. >> got lock down two fires. house lights. get some water and knock it down, okay? >> reporter: palmer had discovered the only in tact stairway to the top of the south tower, unlike the north tower,

the second plane had missed stairway a. >> 77 now. right to you. >> reporter: if palmer could clear this stairwell, 619 souls would have a way out. he was five floors below melissa doy and rising. >> i'm going to die, aren't i? >> no, no, no. >> i'm going to die. >> ma'am, say your prayers. >> i'm going to die. >> think positive because you have to help each other get off the floor. >> stairs going up to 79. k. >> i'm on my way up, orio. >> i'm going to die. >> stay calm. stay calm. stay calm. >> please god. >> you're doing a good job, ma'am. >> it's so hot. i'm burning up. >> reporter: the assent of orio palmer and peter ganci's sacrifice, when we come back.

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an hour had passed since the attack on the world trade center began. in the south tower, battalion 7 chief orio palmer took the only working elevator as high as it would go. then he led the men of ladder 15 on a climb from the 40th floor. palmer was trying to clear a

path to 619 people trapped by fire. >> ladder 7-1-5. >> reporter: this is palmer's radio transmission from the 78th floor of the south tower. he's calling the firefighters of ladder 15, who are coming up with rescue gear from a few floors below. should be able to knock it down. radio, radio that 78th floor. numerous 10-45 code 1's. >> reporter: 1045 code 1s were fatalities, more than he could count. palmer pressed toward 79, climbing at about one floor a minute. as he rose, melissa, speaking to 9-1-1 from the 83rd floor, thought she heard someone. >> wait, wait, wait. we hear voices. help! help! >> hello, ma'am?

>> help! >> oh my god. >> they coming toward you. >> find if there's anybody here on the 83rd floor. >> you stay on the phone with me. >> find out if there's anyone on the 83rd floor. i heard somebody. >> reporter: we don't know what she heard. but hearing no answer to her shout, melissa doy returned to the call. >> can you -- >> i'm going to -- >> stay on the line with me, please. i feel like i'm dying. >> orio palmer knew how dangerous this was, and he didn't stop. ladder 15 knew how dangerous it was, but we never thought that an entire high-rise building would collapse. there was no history of it anywhere in the world. >> but this day, history was changing because the planes had blasted away the spray-on fireproof foam insulating the structural steel. the burning floors were sagging, slowly pulling the exterior inward.

ems division chief john was in the city emergency operation center where he received a warning from an official he believes was an engineer. >> he said, the building's severely compromised, you can see a slight lean. they're in danger of collapse. so i grabbed one of my staff guys, emt rich zarillo. go to pete ganci. don't talk to anyone else and deliver this message, the buildings are in danger of collapse. >> reporter: in this four-second video, at far left you see rich zarillo's blue shirt, he's delivering the warning to pete ganci. zarillo hardly got the words out when ganci's attention was drawn to a roar from the south tower above him. >> loud noise. had no idea what it was. all we saw was a plume of dust

and smoke and debris. >> reporter: in the moment before, melissa doy had given the 9-1-1 operator her mother's phone number and the message that her daughter loved her. then there was silence. >> oh, my god. melissa, please. you'll be all right, you're going to be fine. you'll get to talk to your mother yourself. but you got to think positive, you got to stay calm. you're going to talk to your mother yourself, all right? melissa? >> reporter: palmer's last radio transmission was battalion 7 to ladder 15, and there's nothing after that. that's when the tower collapses. he must have known that with every step he ascended, his

chance of survival dropped. >> it didn't deter him one bit. the only thing that was in his mind was let me get up there, let me get as many people out as i can as quickly as i can. >> reporter: joe pfeiffer next door in the north tower was 200 feet from the cascading twin. >> and then the lobby goes pitch black. >> everybody all right? >> yeah, i'm okay. >> and in the darkness, i wondered if i was dead or alive. >> we got to get everybody out. let's go! >> and i got on my radio, and i said command to all units in tower one. >> evacuate the building. >> joe pfeiffer was given the order to evacuate.

and one of the firefighters were calling my name. pete! pete hans! >> he says we have somebody down. >> i felt somebody at my feet, and i saw this was our fire department chaplain. father michael judge. i removed the judge's white collar, i checked for his pulse and breathing and he had none. and i knew he was gone. >> several of us picked him up, and we carried him out. the emts that had taken him actually took him not to the morgue, but they took him to st. peter, which is a catholic church a little bit north of the trade center. and they laid him on the altar, and they called out the franciscan priests to come down and get him. >> hour two had a major explosion and appears to be a

complete collapse. >> mobilize the army. we need the army in manhattan. >> there was a rush of dust with high pressure coming with force that i've never experienced before. >> reporter: ganci's street side command post had been set up next to an underground garage in case shelter was needed. captain john sudnik, ganci and the chiefs dove into the entrance. >> i remember the dust searing your lungs. it felt like you were swallowing glass. >> pitch black. pitch black. but we heard voices. are you okay, are you okay? and that's when we made our way back up. and then when we got up to where the command post was, pete's mind went into rescue mode. >> reporter: pete ganci heard on the radio the cries of trapped and wounded firefighters. >> and i remember him giving

orders, i need truck companies, i need rescue company. tell them to come with me. >> reporter: as he had before, ganci went into the debris to save his men himself. in the still-standing north tower, many firefighters refused the order to evacuate while they were still carrying the wounded and disabled. ganci sent sal to set up a new command post. 28 minutes later, cassano was on his way back. >> and then i look up, and all i could see was the antenna from the north tower imploding. >> the other tower just collapsed. major collapse, major collapse. >> i, in my mind, had to be

resolved with death. >> reporter: regina wilson was on the street below the tower. she was with engine 219, in her second year as a firefighter. >> and i prayed, and then i just asked god to just protect me, and if he couldn't, i knew that i would die doing what i love. >> reporter: inside the collapsing north tower, the men of engine 39 were caught in a stairwell. >> and it started out slow, boom, boom, boom. then it got quicker. and pretty soon it was just like bam, bam, bam, bam, coming down. >> reporter: jeff and jamie were on the stairs near the ground floor with 110 floors above them. >> it took ten seconds for it to come down, but it felt like ten minutes. i saw -- i was in the background of a funeral, i saw my casket, i saw my parents, my wife sitting

in the front. and as i'm watching this, i'm, like, all right, it's going to be quick. i'm just waiting for something to tap my shoulder and figure i'll feel a tap and that'll be it, we'll be gone, we're not going to suffer. >> james mcglenn and bob bacon were in the same stairwell. >> the wind actually came up the stairwell, blew me into the air, and the landing that i was on just disintegrated beneath me. and i kind of bounced back and forth hanging from like a pipe. >> i think i said a couple of prayers and said, god, please get us out of here. >> reporter: their fragment of an intact stairwell lay upon a mountain of misery. 16 acres of wreckage, 91 crushed fdny vehicles and quiet, like the first heavy snow of winter. >> every once in a while you'd hear the radio, the dispatcher on the radio trying to contact somebody.

>> civilian or staff chief in the world trade center, okay. >> silence spoke of unimaginable loss. >> any division chief or any staff chief at the scene of any of the world trade center? k. >> that day, 23 battalion chiefs responded. only four of us survived. >> reporter: joe pfeiffer thought of the lieutenant of engine 33, his brother kevin, who pfeiffer sent up the north tower. >> i got on my radio, and i said, battalion 1 to engine 33. and i repeated it several times. and i didn't get an answer. >> reporter: kevin pfeiffer was gone, and so was the crew of ladder 105, which rolled from

regina wilson's fire house. >> we found the truck, we didn't find the members. >> reporter: whand what happened to them? >> they all died. >> reporter: among them was john, her mentor and her savior. regina wilson was assigned to the doomed ladder 105, but early that morning before the attack, john asked to switch jobs, which put her among the survivors of engine 219. >> i tried to honor him by talking his name, and that's how it is in the african american culture. when you speak the name of an ancestor or you speak the name of a loved one, then they live. and, so, every time i say john's name, he lives and that gives me comfort. >> it was very hot. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: the member of

engine 39 were trapped in the wreckage near the north tower lobby. they could hear only a few feet away battalion chief richard who was pinned and calling for help. >> we couldn't get to him and he was passing out at times. >> he was coming in and out. >> reporter: did you hear his radio transmissions? >> the last thing he said was of course about his wife and saying that, tell my wife and children i love them. >> yeah, that they were the most -- my wife that she was the most important thing in the world to me. >> reporter: those words were among richard's last. the men of engine 39 were rescued, but 343 members of the fdny were gone. in a tradition where the job is handed down in families, many lost fathers, sons and brothers. >> guys i had worked with both retired and active saying to me, petey, have you seen my son?

and a young firefighter coming up, chief, have you seen my i knew them. and i just said no. i didn't have the courage to tell them what i knew to be true. >> reporter: among the fallen were peter ganci and 71-year-old deputy fire commissioner william rescue ted.d gone with ganci to pete hayden climbed atop an engine to address the living. >> i yelled out, you know, we just lost a lot of guys here today, let's have a moment of silence. and -- well, i took my helmet off, and i held it. i held it. and after i put my helmet back on, they put their helmets back on. i said, okay, we have a job to do, let's do it. >> reporter: do you look back

and wonder how did i survive? and 343 members did not. >> um, i didn't think about it as much. we're crazy busy. i was working 18 hours a day. and then it hit me. i says, i'm here. and i get home and i'm tired, and there was always food on the table waiting for me no matter what time i came home. and -- i'm lying in bed, and i asked my wife, why me? and she said, did you ever think there was a job for you to do?

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firefighters. their commander is quoted, i want new york firemen for there are no more effective men in the country. as those veterans returned home in 1865, the modern fdny was created. the department's traditions are handed down in families, and so it remains. especially for the children of 9/11's fallen. the late chief of department peter ganci had three children. his daughter married a firefighter. these are his sons. captain peter ganci iii was 27 on 9/11. battalion chief chris ganci was 25. how did you learn your father died? >> i ran home, and i got in the door right when steve, my dad's driver, al, who was chief of safety. i just remember them telling my mom that he's gone. and she said gone where?

like that, like innocently. and they're like, he's dead. and i remember the scream that she let out. i can still hear it in my ears, and it pains me to hear it, the pain of the realization that he's never walking back in the door. >> reporter: pete, what kind of man was he? >> he loved being around family. but his family was also the fire department. we knew it, my mom knew it. sometimes, to his dismay, but we understood the type of person that he was and why he chose our chosen career. >> reporter: chris, you were in business and on your way to an mba. did 9/11 make you a fireman? >> absolutely. had 9/11 not happened, i would not have been a new york city firefighter. >> reporter: you've quoted your dad as telling new graduates from the fire academy, you will never, ever be rich, but you will always be happy. >> you will always be happy.

that's hard to explain to people how, like, you can get injured or you can get killed but yet somehow you come home with a smile on your face. i enjoy being part of the organization. it gives me a sense of pride that i never felt anywhere else. and maybe that's what had driven my father for so many years. >> i'm john, i work in the 92 engine in the south bronx. >> tommy polumbo. 62 engine in harlem. >> reporter: john, how old were you on 9/11 >> i was a week away from being 8 years old. >> and i was 9. >> reporter: how many kids in the family? >> there's ten of us. eight boys and two girls. >> reporter: their dad was 46 when he died. ladder 105. in a sense, it wasn't 9/11 that made the palombo boys firefighters, it was september the 12th, and all the days that followed. >> my dad's brothers and sisters in the fire house, they cooked

for us, they drove us places, they took us to six flags. i remember going on their shoulders, they'd take us by the arms and spin us in circles. >> reporter: the fire house turned out for birthdays and games. >> the stands were filled at the hockey games. . >> it wasn't the same because you're missing the one person that you want there, but they do everything they can to fill it. they never will, but -- >> they did everything they could to fill it. as hard as it was for them taking time away from their own families. >> reporter: the fire house cooked dinner for the ten palombos and their mother every monday for five years until the family moved away. >> attention. >> fdny. >> reporter: more than 60 children of 9/11's fallen have been through the training academy on randall's island in the east river and are now on the job.

to join, they took a written exam that's given only once every four years about 60,000 applicants take it, and only those in the top 10% earn a place in the rank and file. >> i'm very proud of them. i feel that their fathers would've been very proud of them. >> reporter: dan nigro, chief ganci's number two on 9/11, was promoted to chief of department and became the city fire commissioner. among the others in our story, john sudnik, a captain on 9/11, rose to chief of department, and so did peter hayden. sal cassano became fire commissioner. battalion chief joe pfeiffer became chief of counterterrorism, and now teaches crisis leadership. regina wilson was studying for the lieutenant's exam. and orio palmer's name lives on

the fdny's award for the most physically fit firefighters. >> a lot of bravery was displayed that day. and followed by a lot of sadness. >> reporter: commissioner, it seems to be a sad day for you 20 years later. >> i think for everybody that was there that day, it just stayed with them, the sadness. we have plenty of good days, plenty to be thankful for, those of us who survived. but it's a day that will never leave you. >> reporter: sadness becomes part of your life? >> absolutely. >> reporter: your father survived the collapse of the first tower. and instead of moving to safety, he went to answer the mayday calls from his trapped firefighters. >> receive report firefighter trapped and down. >> reporter: he knew that the

other building was in imminent danger of he had decided in that moment that he was not going home. >> yeah. he chose his guys. we could get angry about it. and i know my sister and my mother, sometimes we hit our head against the wall. but when the smoke clears and you think about it, it was the only decision. i knew the way he felt about his men and his job in the fdny, and he was going to stay and see the job through. he wouldn't have been able to live with himself if he left and one guy was killed. it's just the way he was. it was, i have to be there till the last guy is out. >> reporter: today's recruits were children then. >> secure your gear. >> reporter: and so they muster before memories, three columns of the world trade center and

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we cannot do justice in this hour or any number of hours. to the sacrifices of the fdny, the new york city police department, the port authority police, and those who fought to save lives at the pentagon and on flight 93 in pennsylvania. at the trade center, 2,753 people perished, but there were more than 17,000 in the towers, and 99% of those below the fires survived. that morning a witness watched firefighters rush to the stairwells and wondered how they found the courage. after 21 years of reflection, it's clear, they climbed to rise, to rise to the cries 1,000 feet above them, to rise to the defense of the

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