It began as a beautiful day, the Manhattan skyline stretching clearly before New York City firefighter Peter Fallucca as he drove across the Verrazzano Bridge to work.
Fallucca, then a relatively new member of Engine 16, had no way of knowing that the stunning view he admired that morning was about to be forever changed.
After hearing the first plane roar directly over his firehouse, he and his unit were immediately dispatched to the World Trade Center, arriving just as the second plane exploded into the South Tower.
He entered the North Tower carrying hoses and air tanks, joining firefighters climbing upward as office
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