On September 11, 2001, FDNY Battalion Chief Richard "Pitch" Picciotto answered the call heard around the world.
It was in its smoky stairwells where he.
And it was there that he concentrated his rescue efforts.
A veteran of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Picciotto was eerily familiar with the inside of the North Tower.
In minutes he was at Ground Zero of the worst terrorist attack on American soil, as the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center began to burn -- and then to buckle.
On September 11, 2001, FDNY Battalion Chief Richard "Pitch" Picciotto answered the call heard around the world