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Sixty minutes sugar story8/5/2023 Captain John Sudnik, Ganci and the chiefs dove into the entrance. Ganci's streetside command post had been set up next to an underground garage in case shelter was needed. John Sudnik: There was a rush of dust with high pressure coming in, you know, with force that I've never experienced before. Radio Transmission: Have them mobilize the Army! We need the Army in Manhattan. Radio Transmission: Tower Two has had a major explosion and what appears to be a complete collapse! And they laid him on the altar, and they called out the Franciscan priests to come down and get him. Peter Claver which is a Catholic church a little bit north of the Trade Center. The EMTs that had taken him, actually took him, not to the morgue, but they took him to St. Peter Hayden: Several of us picked him up and we carried him out. And I saw this was our fire department chaplain, Father Mychal Judge. And one of the firefighters were calling my name… He says, "We have somebody down." Peter Hayden: Joe Pfeifer was giving the order to evacuate. And I said, "Command to all units in Tower One… Joe Pfeifer: And then the lobby goes pitch black… And in the darkness, I wondered if I was dead or alive… And I got on my radio. Joe Pfeiffer, next door in the North Tower, was 200 feet from the cascading twin. Let me get as many people out as I can as quickly as I can." The only thing that was in his mind was, "Let me get up there. He must have known that with every step he ascended, his chance of survival dropped. Scott Pelley: Palmer's last radio transmission was Battalion 7 to Ladder 15, and there's nothing after that. Ok? You're gonna talk to your mother yourself, alright? Melissa? You're gonna talk to your mother yourself. ![]() Then, there was silence.ĩ11 operator: Oh my God. In the moment before, Melissa Doi had given the 911 operator her mother's phone number and the message that her daughter loved her. All we saw was this plume of dust and smoke and debris. Sal Cassano: Loud noise, had no idea what it was. Zarrillo hardly got the words out when Ganci's attention was drawn to a roar from the South Tower above him. He's delivering the warning to Pete Ganci. ![]() In a four-second video, at the far left of the screen, you see Rich Zarrillo's blue shirt. And I said, "Rich go to Pete Ganci, don't talk to anyone else, and deliver this message: the buildings are in danger of collapse." They're in danger of collapse." So I grabbed one of my staff guys, EMT Rich Zarrillo. 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. Dan Nigro: Pete, I guess people would say he's my alter ego.
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