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Despite the remoteness of the disaster area, about 130 miles northeast of Milan, more than 4,000 amateur and professional rescue workers had rushed to the scene by late afternoon. Soldiers, firemen and policemen were joined by Alpine rescue squads with sniffer dogs trained to search out avalanche victims. Although rescue efforts continued through Friday night and Saturday, only eight people were found alive, and most of the work involved recovering bodies...
Everything changed on 9/11. Pantano was on his way to a business meeting when he saw the burning towers. "It was the most horrendous thing I had ever seen," he says. "It broke my heart." Ten firemen from Rescue 1, three of them ex-Marines, died in the towers. That evening, his wife Jill says, Pantano came back home with his head shaved. "He was already in warrior mode," says his friend J.R. McKechnie. He applied to rejoin the Marines. He was 30, married, a child on the way. "It was really hard on the family," McKechnie says. "Look...
...strong,” says Travolta. “And I thought if I could take all of those and combine them, that would be a leader.” But the largest commitment to truth for most of the actors came from the firemen themselves once the cameras began to roll...
Responding to pressure from firemen wanting their craft portrayed accurately, Travolta voices the general sentiment of the actors, admitting that “it was nice to have that boundary, to have them check us and know when we had to do a scene again because it wasn’t the real...
Lightheartedness and weightiness exist side by side in the movie and are switched on and off with the sudden gong of the bell signaling fire. The reality of the harshness of the job was again evoked when the firemen and crew reunited in Baltimore for the opening screening. An awards ceremony was held at the event, where many of their mentors were honored...