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60 Minutes

60 Minutes remembers 9.11: The FDNY

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week marks the 54th season premier of "60 Minutes, and 20 years since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2021. Firefighters who were at the World Trade Center that day share their stories with Scott Pelley.

Transcript

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Go to Trace Center.

0:41.4

20 years ago, they answered the call.

0:44.7

Send every available ambulance, everything you've got, the world tracer, now.

0:50.9

We knew that they could be up to 20, 25,000 people in each building.

0:54.9

I'm on the 85,000, and it's very, very, very hot.

0:58.8

Every firefighter saw the flames, and they looked into their own hearts.

1:05.3

Stay together. Stay together.

1:07.6

That's when I said to Pete, Pete, this will be the worst day of our lives.

1:11.6

And, you know, that was before I knew the half of it.

1:15.6

Hey, day, me to collapse, ways to collapse.

1:22.6

And in the darkness, everybody all right. I wondered if I was dead or alive.

1:29.7

Hey, Pete! Chief Hayden!

1:32.9

Tonight, the Fire Department of the City of New York

1:38.6

and the greatest act of gallantry ever bestowed on an American city.

1:44.0

I don't want this to be something that's in a history book that a page is turned and we're forgotten.

1:56.0

I'm Leslie Stahl.

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