John Peruggia: He said, "The buildings are severely compromised. EMS Division Chief John Peruggia was in the city emergency operations center, where he received a warning from an official he believes was an engineer. The burning floors were sagging, slowly pulling the exterior inward. There was no history of it anywhere in the world.īut this day, history was changing because the planes had blasted away the spray-on fireproof foam insulating the structural steel. But we never thought that an entire high-rise building would collapse. Joe Pfeifer: Orio Palmer knew how dangerous this was. Melissa Doi: Can you, can you… stay on the line with me please? But hearing no answer to her shout, Melissa Doi returned to the call. Melissa Doi: Can you find out if there is anyone here on the 83rd floor because we think we heard somebody! On 9/11, the man responsible for firefighter safety was Chief Al Turi, who was tormented by the passing minutes.Īl Turi: …Let it burn up. He once said his 11,000 firefighters were his children. He went in wearing shorts and boat shoes. Ganci, the chief of the department, responded from home to a call of firefighters trapped in a burning store. He put his firefighters before himself three months before 9/11. He would put people before himself without a doubt. Sal Cassano: That's the kind of person Pete was. 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. Scott Pelley: He won the department's medal of valor. Quite a story.Ī story of courage over his 33-year career. You know he was a paratrooper in the Army, worked his way up to be chief of department in the FDNY. ![]() And he was just a down-to-earth, honest, hard-working guy. The firefighters describe the bravery and the resignation of duty: no one refused orders to enter the buildings many trying to save victims refused the order to evacuate.Dan Nigro: Pete, I guess people would say he's my alter ego. ![]() The hour weaves together stories of heroism with archival footage to poignantly and accurately reconstruct the tragic and valiant moment in American history when two of the four hijacked airliners in the terrorist attack hit the World Trade Center towers. We have plenty of good days, plenty to be thankful for, those of us who survived, but it's a day that'll never leave, never leave you." "I think for everyone that was there that day, it just stays with them, the sadness. "A lot of bravery was displayed that day… followed by a lot of sadness," says Nigro. Nigro and other firefighters who were at Ground Zero, many of whom fill the top ranks of the FDNY, recall the men, their sacrifices and the tragedy of losing 343 of their colleagues in "FDNY: 9/11," to be broadcast on the 54th season premiere of 60 Minutes, Sunday, September 12 at 7:30 p.m. "It's a day that will never leave you," Fire Department of New York Commissioner Dan Nigro tells Scott Pelley. While the nation remembers the terrorist attacks that killed thousands of Americans 20 years ago, New York City firefighters sent to rescue victims at the World Trade Center who survived will relive a life-changing experience that's now a part of who they are. A day that will never leave you: 20 years later, 60 Minutes recounts FDNY stories of heroism on 9/11 00:50
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