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. The Department will notify each respondent as to whether the certificate has been accepted, and, if it has not been accepted, advise the respondent of the deficiencies in the certification and the actions and/or proof required to correct the violations.Dan Nigro: Pete, I guess people would say he's my alter ego.

The Department will review all certificates of correction and determine whether to accept them as satisfactory certification of correction.However, respondent must appear for a hearing at OATH, as set forth on the FDNY summons, if certification of correction is not filed with and accepted by the Department for all of the violations cited on the FDNY summons. When more than one (1) violation of a law, rule or regulation is cited on the same FDNY summons, the respondent may certify correction as to one (1) or more of such violations.The filing of a certificate of correction in accordance with this section constitutes an admission to the offense charged and results in a finding of liability, but respondents cited for one (1) or more first offenses who, for each such condition, timely correct and file a certificate of correction that is accepted by the Department, are not required to appear for a hearing at OATH and avoid the imposition of a penalty on such violation.Both the date of offense and the date for certification of correction are indicated on the face of the violation. The certificate of correction must be received by the Administrative Enforcement Unit of the Bureau of Legal Affairs no later than the close of business on the 35th calendar day from the date of offense set forth on the FDNY summons.

Fdny department general order