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The Rise of Freedom: Firehouse

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    Firefighters of Engine 10/Ladder 10 welcome 10-year remembrance of 9/11

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The -- of freedom now.

For more they gear our cameras have followed the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and we will bring you new reports all this week.

As we lead up to next Sunday's opening of the 9/11 memorial on the -- remembrance of the attacks.

First we want to revisit one of our previous reports about the fire house that sits just across the street from the place for the towers fell.

And some of the firefighters who've been at engine ten ladder ten this entire time saying they actually look forward to observing the ten year mark.

Shepard Smith reports.

To date this fire house sits on the edge of a construction site.

Ten years ago it was in the middle of a national tragedy.

By the time we got here we'll we'll -- what was your.

Sponges free.

This could imagine pause live it looked like.

War war zone like George world back to call for all topics covered in the -- still here.

We -- -- out the next day get 65 guys on the Internet -- -- -- -- with your hand literally.

Literally those files out.

-- Angelos so in cell are gone -- or among a small group of guys -- -- -- engine ten ladder ten since before the attacks people who have never been here might not realize.

The firehouse.

And that's the -- -- I mean they've they've the only reason this -- -- they've built that building there.

It's just so happened neither -- -- so in Oregon -- was scheduled to work the day shift on 9/11 2001.

-- -- That's what okay.

It was a -- The collapse destroyed their rigs the response effort guided their building of all supplies.

It was two years before they could move back in.

A few years after the attacks this city installed -- memorial on the side of the building.

With a 343.

Firefighters who died that day.

343.

Including the six men who came from engine ten ladder ten this.

Now -- that bill.

They went right.

It have you ever thought about.

What it would have been like that users.

The guys here have their own ways to remember the fallen.

A memorial on the wall and the book which they don't want to show on television containing information about each man.

That's something we'll get to the new guys not being given to -- -- it's an.

No.

You see in the picture.

Read about his wife -- Kennedy -- -- children.

Mom and dad where you live -- summit is history.

They also hold on to some of the history of their house -- -- -- things related to retrieve.

I mean it won't be engine.

To assign.

One kind of.

You know that's.

-- -- life in this firehouse goes on as normally as possible given the endless stream of construction crews -- tourists outside.

To customize.

-- your -- and we want to be anywhere else.

I was gonna ask -- Takes a special kind of -- say.

I'm staying in the middle of this this is my house these are my people that was my disaster and I leave it -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- For those guys too -- so and are gonna say this building is home.

It's still a great job to go -- And have a good deal with the jobs will be it would things -- -- -- -- it -- habitable because in the drilling at a bank in and the blasting and and the doorbell -- although Reagan didn't you're doing -- -- tourists come up.

I wanna see a firefighter I think I've been -- -- and -- on the floor and but they say they're happy to finally see the towers going up across the street ten years after the attacks so you can have to deal with all visible from the road.

Through this 9/11.

I would be the board.

Well there's nobody you welcome.

And -- there.

Go home it's.

Welcome -- open arms.

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