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Bravery of 9/11 Hero Dogs

[Music] September 11th 2001 terrorists flight to passenger jets into the World Trade Center within hours both buildings collapse 10,000 emergency workers heed the call for help over 300 of these heroes are dogs they searched for survivors they comforted those in need they led their owners to safety and one special dog gave His life the line of duty this is the story of man's best friend standing side by side with us through America's greatest time of need [Music] on the morning of September 11th 2001 David Lim police officer with the Port Authority of New York is making the rounds at the World Trade Center with his partner a bomb sniffing yellow Labrador named serious David and serious have worked together for years keeping the Twin Towers safe this beautiful Tuesday morning seems like another routine day our assignment was to check trucks coming in and out of the building for possible explosives also part of our duties was clearing areas for VIPs that would come to the World Trade Center so on that particular day I came in about 6 o'clock in the morning to check a bunch of trucks right and then we'd go to take our break and all of a sudden I feel the building shakes on the 78th floor the first Tower Michael hangsen is working in his office and a fortune 500 computer company his best friend is on the floor beside him Michael has been blind since birth his friend a guide dog named Roselle I grew up in Southern California were used to earthquakes and we thought we were going to take a 78th floor plunge and we said goodbye and then the building stopped moving and it started coming back toward its normal vertical position I had a dog right next to me who was sitting and wagging her tail and yawning so I knew because we worked so well as a team that if she weren't feeling any anxiety that in that moment at that point in time we could work to evacuate in an orderly way in the 64th floor of the neighboring tower across the way from Michael and Roselle single mom Janelle Guzman is sitting in her office she has no idea that a dog will soon become the most important living creature in her life hearing the commotion after the first tower has hit Janelle goes to the window to see what's going on I remember going was a window and like saw bits of paper in the sky and when I press my head flower she was the glass I saw the ball of fire and I like you know I looked at my friend I like what happened if that's when somebody said I think of a small plane hit the building and but I didn't think anything huge of it at that point back in the other Tower David Lemmons serious have just finished their bomb surveillance when the police radio cracks to life then heard a radio transmission from the police desk I said that there was an explosion on the upper levels of One World Trade Center my first thought was that something had gotten by us so I said the seriously we could be in a lot of trouble right now Sirius is trained to sniff explosives David thought a human search mission was about to begin you're not a search-and-rescue dog so David makes a fateful decision that haunts him to this day I took serious put him back in his kennel so we just sit here and I'll come back when it's done I left them in the kennel I went to go help with the rescue operation serious is kennel is in the basement level of tower 178 floors up Michael hangsen is trying to get out Michael is not the kind of guy to let blindness stop him from anything but he's going to need help from his partner Roselle to tackle the urgent scene he faces in a stairwell filled with people go forward for me I had to focus on Roselle so it was important for me to encourage her tell her she was a good girl forward make sure that she was feeling okay because if I began to sound nervous then she's gonna be looking around at me and become very nervous because I'm afraid here is spreading through both towers back in Tower one Port Authority lieutenant David Lim heads upstairs to calm and redirect the thousands of nervous people now trying to get out of the damaged building people look at me and they're wondering why I'm going off and they're going down I have to tell them soon no no down is good keep going down that promise you'll be fine I heard that there was more trouble upstairs but people falling Gerald blob or the Chief of Detectives for the Suffolk County SPCA is already on his way to Manhattan for a meeting he witnesses what's happening at the World Trade Center and I didn't have the radio on so I put it on and listened to the news and was able to pull off the expressway and so there was just a tremendous amount of smoke and did not think it was a small plane and as I was watching I saw the second plane hit I'm in Tower one I'm not the 37th floor the second plane hits tower - at this point we realize that it's not a accident but it's a terrorist attack and transmission now is to get everybody out as fast as possible on the 64th floor the other Tower Janelle is watching the TV news with her coworkers when the second plane hits they know they have to get out now while going down we run into fire fighters coming up with that kind of reassure me that it's not that bad Janelle would soon find out how bad things would get when we got to the 30th floor to the met firemen coming up the stairs as they came up to me the first guy stopping gassed if I was okay and I said I am he said lots good we're gonna send somebody down the stairs with you please and I said you don't need to do that I didn't want to spend time giving him a lecture about blindness I didn't want to give him a lecture about the fact that you don't get a guide dog of harness and so he was petting Roselle and Roselle was giving him kisses anyway which was probably the last unconditional love he ever got as Michael hangsen continues to find his way downstairs with Roselle the courageous fireman climb upwards into the inferno they never come down the two partners still have a lot of floors to manage to get to the ground Roselle needs to stay calm and Michael needs to keep up his stamina it is a daunting challenge lieutenant David Lim is so busy getting people out that he has no time to think of his partner serious left in the basement Kenneth and I got to the 44th floor this point I was just still concerned with getting the people out of the building my thing was that well he should be fine you know he's still in his kennel in the basement of the other building all of a sudden the other building collapses no more waiting we all have to go everybody go go go go look at this building is done of collapse also so I want to get a rebound as soon as possible I couldn't leave anybody behind now we'd seen their faces forever meanwhile amidst all the chaos Michael Henson manages to make it down all 78 floors to ground level with his amazing guide dog Roselle we got to the bottom of the stairs the water was was filling up the building from the stairwells there were people shouting go this way don't go over there don't go outside come this way they wouldn't let anyone go outside an FBI guy came up and told us where they wanted us to go which was to run through the mall and outside the center as far away from the Twin Towers as we could be I don't know that she could hear me when I was saying good girl good job you're doing a great job as we were running with all that noise but she did her job perfectly Roselle has done her job and helped teammate Michael Hanson to safety they are the lucky ones Janel Guzman is in the other Tower and officer David Lim is still trying to direct people to safety while his partner Sirius is waiting in his basement kennel [Music] on September 11th 2001 there were thousands of heroes over 300 of them were dogs one tower has collapsed lieutenant David Lim has left his partner a yellow lab named serious in the basement of the remaining tower he's assisting with crowd control on the 44th floor once things are under control lieutenant Lim joins the workers going downstairs we start going down and I remember that the building has already started to shake and it lights were flickering we keep getting further down and we get down to the fifth floor I think I thought maybe one more floor that's when the building collapsed in the burning 2nd tower Port Authority worker Janelle Guzman and her work colleagues have made it to the stairwell but they are in grave danger while I was in the 13 staircase and I just bent over to take my shoes off and when I was going to get back up I just felt the walls cave then it went completely dark dusty and everything was just rumbling it's sort of like an onrushing locomotive coming right at you one was the sound of the floors pancaking on top of each other they were coming down the feeling of the wind as the air is compressed through the building pushing down like a hurricane please went completely dark the dust everything just started to crumble all the debris Diaz keep falling and falling and was really really loud after the huge commotion of the collapse chaos turns to quiet deadly quiet there was total silence and when I opened my eyes I realized that I'm stuck muscle acid obviously what ten seconds whatever and I thought for sure at that point that I was dead lieutenant David Lim realizes he has survived the collapse for now next thing I know was forming stops I got some debris on me but I'm like Hoff just for something just the thought came in my head mom dead men don't cough and I think I'm still alive at first you're very happy you're like oh my gosh I'm alive I survived and then the next very next thought is how the heck am I gonna get out of it is 110 stories above me limb is trapped here we were there for good I guess five hours well I was able to get our radio transmissions out to my police desk and they were telling me that rescue was in route we spent our time like I said trying to dig our way out as we were digging up it saw a light I thought was a light from next floor and turned out to be the Sun but now I know I'm going to get up a fireman passes lieutenant Lim a rope to help pull himself to safety I grabbed the rope I started walking up the build I just kept on pulling whoa I knit one hand over the other and I finally got to the top and now I started to feel like I'm out is done after burning for almost an hour in seconds both towers each over a hundred stories high totally collapse thousands of people are frantic about their loved ones guide dog Roselle did an outstanding job leaving Michael hangsen down 78 flights of stairs to safety Janel Guzman is buried alive under tons of rubble and as for lieutenant limbs canine partners serious locked in his kennel his fate is unknown when the news spreads about the disaster that has struck lower Manhattan Dog Rescue handlers across the continent are quick to respond specifically trained search-and-rescue dogs are needed they are the best hope to find survivors every hour counts but what becomes known as the pile that rubble that used to be the magnificent Twin Towers has become a place of great danger still on fire it's filled with broken glass and metal shards in the desperate hours and days ahead the dogs will get hurt and they will get tired they will need medical care to keep them going Jerald whopper of the Suffolk County SPCA is ready I'd received the call from NYPD k-9 asking if we could respond to ground zero and by noon we had a plan in place two months early we've gotten this brand-new bus hospital which we call the mash unit so we were fully packed with modern operating theater in the first few days we were treating well over a hundred dogs we did an aggregate number and I think 300 and something dogs were working file there were different kinds of dogs there there were accelerant dogs and general patrol dogs and all kinds of other rescue dogs some cadaver dogs each one trained in an in the different aspect of what they could do as day turns to night more emergency response teams arrived veterinarian dr. Cynthia Otto takes charge of the medical care for the FEMA search dogs the biggest thing that we were dealing with was preventive medicine so our job was to prevent injuries and make sure that the dogs were resting that they were drinking that they were actually eating because the environment that they're in was so overwhelmingly stimulating the noise the activity and the demand for the dogs I mean every time we would ask a dog to take a break and rest someone will be calling we need a dog over here we need a dog over here and so it was really hard to say no the dogs came dehydrated every dog that came pretty much had to get an intravenous line put into them their eyes would cleaned out the other thing that we really pushed and this was something we had learned after Oklahoma City that the great thing is if you flush the dog's eyes with a saline solution it actually runs out their nose as well so it enhanced their ability to detect things because they could smell because one would clean some of the dust out of their nose but it also kept their nose hydrated some with some cuts some of the minor burns the dogs couldn't actually go to certain areas because they were burning their paws and we had to put out a call for these dog booties firefighter and k-9 handler mark Dawson is on the job with his dog Elvis when we got down there it was still a lot of smoke a lot of fire a lot of people around a lot of devastation we basically came up with a plan and we started sectoring off those areas that we were gonna be responsible to search elvis fell right in early on you could see had the tools to do the job it's that type of dog that we look for that dog that's an independent dog that will go out once it's trained correctly to locate live human scent they will actually go out and look for it and cover that environment it has shifting rubble has other things that we as humans if we went to walk on could collapse these dogs being a lightweight dog they're able to go into small areas they're able to go over areas that are very dangerous for humans to welcome the asset is they cover large areas in a very short time given all those things they are the the strongest tool for detection for live human scent as well as HR which is human remains but Janelle Guzman is very much alive and pinned under the rubble she's still conscious but confused and only has mobility in one hand being trapped like that in that position for 27 hours I've I can feel my body no more my face everything was completely stuck between two concrete pillars I was just praying maxing God for a second chance time is of the essence if any victims are to be found alive while trapped Janelle is unaware that throughout ground zero all around her is abuzz of intense activity by dogs and their handlers have your dog locate someone and bring closure to that family that's the best thing they could ever expect our hope for the single mom who is buried deep in the rubble he's beginning to lose hope the worst moments while I was waiting to be rescued it's just knowing that I wasn't going to see my family again I knew somehow that I was going to die and I know that they wasn't going to find my buddy and I was just like saying I'm God please please I can't take it no more police show me a sign that you there I just needed America and I was asked and I'm praying for that Janelle needs a miracle will it be one that arrives on four legs a desperate call went out for help good people responded to the call search and rescue teams brought their remarkable dogs [Music] for more than 24 hours office worker Janelle Guzman is caught under the rubble while dogs are searching every inch of the Ground Zero site search dogs are not born knowing what to do their partners the handlers help these incredible animals reach their potential it takes between 18 months and two years of handling to train a search dog they are trained in various environments including buildings like this fire training site in Rockland County penny Sullivan 911 veteran and founder of the Ramapo rescue dog Association knows what it takes to train a young dog to become a good search dog little steps at a time socialization introduction to the game of finding people and of course building all that play Drive that's really important to us the dogs need to feel secure on all kinds of surfaces even training on hot metal steps so they can feel confident to do their work as great as they all with agility and the way they a move they do have a tendency to get a little overanxious the first thing to look for in a good search dog is the motor that makes working dogs tick play drive the motivation to win a game is what drives dogs to do the tasks they are trained to do now they're expecting to have a fine here somewhere in the building and that's all they live to do right loose different dogs are trained to search for different smells including bombs and drugs search-and-rescue dogs are trained to find living human scent that's the ultimate goal but these particular animals live for when you have a dog that that's fired up and likes to play the dogs get so wanting that great tug game at the end that you can really rile them up eventually on real searches and in training the dogs don't have that to see to begin with they don't get pumped up with that but now they progress to the point where they want it enough and anytime you go on searching they're hoping that at least now I'm gonna get like my good time [Music] she's always out for fun every working dog is trained for a specific function like Penny Sullivan's dog most of the dogs of ground zero were search and rescue dogs who are trained to find live people but because of the lack of survivors some were losing their search drive and getting discouraged the fact that they also worked and worked and worked without finding the live subject some of the handlers will actually take somebody one of their team members and have them do a little height hide-and-seek so the dog could have a find and have a happy reward another kind of working dog is the cadaver dog trained to find human remains the first day I think there was a sense that they would find some people trapped in in metal alcoves underneath but as that day went on no one was coming out of that live more than a day after the collapse Port Authority worker Janel Guzman is still clinging to life but time is running out at this point the search and rescue operation is reaching a critical stage on the verge of being abandoned you [Applause] twenty-four hours after the collapse of the towers hope is running out that any survivors would be found in the rubble still alive Port Authority worker Janel Guzman is trapped she has no idea what is going on just a few feet away dogs are working all over the site my face everything was completely stuck between two concrete pillars and I had no space or no strength at all to pull it out I mean I was in pain with my legs and the stuff on top of me I couldn't get it off of me because I couldn't maneuver myself to turn left right I was in one position and with only my left hand to move around that's the only thing that didn't go numb was my left hand I had no idea of the time but it was a long time I was just praying maxing God for a second chance Ric Cushman is an army engineer who has joined the huge group of volunteers looking for people he has never seen anything like Ground Zero you still had fires burning underneath the metal at that point the order was god-awful you know it was just a burning electrical metal concrete combination that was just something you'll never forget miraculously kushman witnesses some search dogs indicating the scent of a living person it's Janelle Guzman I believe it was one of the guys from the Pittsfield team had actually spotted a fireman's reflective jacket just underneath the top level of the rubble and when they got to the top to see what was there that's when all of a sudden the yell came out that we have a survivor Janelle hears footsteps and sounds that offer comfort and hope then a flash of light touches her face someone asks her name and I spoke back to them and I told them my name what to know then I heard someone said oh okay I see her be careful at that point it was weird you could hear a pin drop across the whole place and then beehive of activity there that medics go up there they had to have an ironworker come in and actually cut out some beams after she was pinned the excitatory miserable after they crap on my shoulder to pull me out but Isis tracking happening quickly on this dresser and everybody was just saying you're gonna be fine we got to you got a round loaded her on a basket lowered it down and the terrain was so bad we actually had to stand across from each other side by side the whole way out and literally pass her hand over hand all the way across the pile out to the waiting ambulance the momentum was pull out from the rubble I felt a total renew life in me that was the most joyful moment to me what Janelle doesn't know is that her joy is shared by some heroic search dogs who have just made a fine it is so awesome that the dog could have these type of sense to find someone buried under that rug well he's my hero [Music] the hours ticked by 911 rescue workers realized that Janelle was the last survivor to come out of the rubble as the rescue turned into a recovery mission more cadaver dogs started working the pile but surprisingly search dogs stayed on the job the thing that really amazed me is that they started to get that there were not any live victims and they started to recognize human remains even if they may not have been trained and those dogs that were trained for life find started to help with that recovery of the human remains and my dog jazz never liked doing cadaver work she never liked doing human remains she always wanted to find a live find however I asked her to go seek and that was her clue to know that we were looking to recover and she did her job not all the dogs at Ground Zero were part of search and rescue teams therapy dogs became very important as well they're not trained to find they were used to provide comfort and lift morale for the physically and emotionally drained workers at the twin towers site I'm always amazed by the dogs I mean I'm sort of a like think the dog is in a sense of dyslexia that they really talking about God they just got their letters mixed up there they're wonderful they want to do the right thing they happy to see you in the matter how hard you work them each dog had its own personality and they were just great they were just great Frank Shane is a trauma responder in 2001 when the towers were struck he was in his car with his partner Nike a golden retriever he was determined that Nike and other therapy dogs could provide comfort in the days and months ahead I had that the search-and-rescue were to go on the client they had a job to do I couldn't just waltz him down on the pile that would have been the wrong place for us because a dog is like a lightning rod of emotion the firemen and the police officers they would sort of have a single-file line out to where they were working on the pile they were completely stone-faced so sombre so sad but resolved that they were going to go out and do something but when they'd see one of the dogs they kind of stop and they break and you to see their eyes light up a little bit and a smile it's like some of them would come over and pet the dog and say oh I just really miss my dog you know or just something to show a little life and happiness and this really otherwise horrific environment their gyroscope psychologically was bent and turned upside down and Nike was able to sort of write that up so what they were getting was trust support something familiar somebody that would listen to them they would talk and tell them stories that I couldn't believe they would tell him things about the pile especially as the days and the weeks when the toll really started to take on the workers Port Authority police officer lieutenant David Lim was rescued on the first day about five hours after being buried alive in the rubble but he did not know what had happened to k-9 partner serious he had to focus on his own recovery my wife and kids came to the hospital and I remember Michael come to mingle all whoa I glad you're happy we're serious so while he's you know in the building right but they've gotta wait they're gonna rescue him you know just like I got rescue you you where are the dog heros of Ground Zero today there are still a few veteran dogs alive but they're all quite old many experts were worried that the dog's health would be affected by the toxic environment of Ground Zero dr. cynthia otto conducted a health study of 95 of the dogs who worked at the site we were able to take x-rays of the dog's lungs every year we're able to get blood samples we're able to do toxicology testing on all of those dogs and we followed them now for 10 years we found very little that was that was abnormal but overall the fact that they didn't develop respiratory problems which is such a big problem in humans was really puzzling to us I have lots of different theories one is they have longer noses than we do so they're much better at filtering out some of this nasty stuff dr. Otto studies have also given her an insight into the next generation of search dogs she and other vets are developing a combination of old-school and cutting-edge techniques to find the hero dogs of the future the things that make them good are play drive so the dogs that we're tugging and and just really wanting to do that and it's really fun that they have that motivation and that's the prize that they get after they find what it is that we're training them to find and in this case a live human they get to tug and play and that's just the best thing in the world the little puppy that I was tugging with earlier just wouldn't give up you wouldn't give up tugging and we know everyone else was kind of ready to go in he was like let's go we're playing some more and that's what you want because if you're buried in a pile of a collapsed building you want the dog that doesn't give up this is one of the kennels that's breeding a lot of the really top search dogs right now and in this country we don't have enough breeding programs that are providing high quality really strong dogs for detection work so we're bringing pride in now pride is one of the breeding dogs so she's gonna be a really important dog to look at the characteristics that are resulting in such fabulous puppy potential we're gonna get a blood sample in that blood sample we're gonna take down to our lab and we're going to collect the DNA out of that blood sample one of the things that we really want to do in the future is not only help select which dogs that we want to have to breathe but we might actually be able to go into shelters take a blood sample and see if those dogs have that fingerprint that they might actually make good search and rescue dogs not only are breeders expanding the capabilities of search dogs but high-tech electronics are giving search and rescue teams even more tools to do their jobs search teams around the world are now using cat or canine augmented technology systems with cameras attached to show the rescuers what the dogs are finding the cameras also have infrared capability for capturing images in the dark the system consists of two cameras and the cameras have a set of IR LEDs on them to provide lumination in the dark even energetic dogs can't work continuously that's when an electronic device called the life locator gets used so when the dogs need to take a break this instrument is when it really is effective we can start taking over searching the rubble life locator technology can then advance the search even more it's raw is to locate trap victims within structural collapses natural disasters like mud slides or avalanches and it runs off ground-penetrating radar we would place it on top of the rubble and it is able to detect movement up to 10 meters deep and breathing up to 6 meters deep the technology has enabled us to actually put the dog into places where humans can't get into the dogs also wear vests to deliver emergency supplies like food medicine and radios the canine augmented drop systems can be triggered remotely by the search teams if the dogs had a head the technology available at ground zero as what we have now the dogs wouldn't be able to save greater numbers of people it's tempting to imagine how today's current technology would have made a difference in the recovery operation in 2001 right before the collapse of the towers lieutenant David Lim left his dog partner serious in his kennel in the basement of the World Trade Center after being rescued out of the rubble Lim took some time off to recuperate and then was back on the job he still had no word of the fate of his dog eventually I came back to work I think about a month later on a part-time basis and I got a phone call Dave did you lend you a shirt to anybody because we found someone that has your shirt on them right with the name Lim I said oh well not that I can recall well can you come down to ground zero [Music] you on September 11th 2001 there were thousands of heroes over 300 of them were dogs after the World Trade Center attacks lieutenant David Lim was back on the job with a new dog but there was one big unresolved issue the fate of his partner serious months later he received a phone call with the news and he says did you lend you a shirt to anybody cousin so we found someone that has your shirt on them right with the name Lim went down there was actually serious they found my shirt was hanging on a wall I'd fallen an aunt on top of Cirrus and it was covering saris I guess they couldn't tell it wasn't human so they examined further so by the time I got down there they already had him in a in a black body bag and I remember them asking me us do you want to see I don't know I want to remember him the way I left I remember saying to him so I promise to come back from that I did [Music] back then when a body was recovered they would line up as you were coming out of ground and it would be a priest dare to give a small invitation and he even said one for serous but they stopped all the machines right we came out remember me he spoke of all creatures great and small loss that day through coming by our different commands Holland Tunnel the bus terminal path officers came out and saluted as well by nothing excuse me I'll never forget that [Music] almost ten years after the attacks on a more peaceful sunny day dr. cynthia otto michael hansen search dog handler nancy brooks and therapy dog handler frank shane have arranged a reunion with their new dogs in tow they have come to remember [Music] there's a reverent atmosphere here at Ground Zero the site is under construction but still a gathering place to remember all the people who lost their lives outside fire station ladder 1010 the FDNY memorial wall commemorates the 343 brave firefighters who perished doing their jobs right here you can almost see faces go in they have no harness on they had no collars on well until we got outside and took it out is there anything you'd like to ask me well almost 3,000 people died here on the two towers so this is a very very special place the group arrives at the 9/11 memorial at st. Paul's Chapel this was a place of comfort for the rescue workers of September 11th now it's a place of remembrance [Music] just on a piece of marble like that there's tons of hatches from all the different police departments respondents Frank Shan discovers a picture of his dog Nike like he died in 2004 at a ceremony you can see his tracking light at night you'd see the firefighters on the pile and they see the whole area who took as you looked at and one of the firefighters gave him one of these lights because he said that there was an expression stay safe this is like he has to stay safe the hero dogs of 9/11 are mostly gone but they will live forever in the history and in the hearts of their surviving human partners to be involved with something on that magnitude and that level with the animal that you've worked so closely with it's a tremendous bond you establish everyone who has a pet dog knows how strongly they are attached to them Ellis was my partner I mean we went through a lot of things together you have a bond with with your dog and having the missions that you've gone through and especially 9/11 and seeing what your dog is able to do and what he did for you it's it's very painful I knew what she was I knew what kind of a dog she was I knew how committed and dedicated she was and the events of 9/11 it just strengthened my joy and my love for her and my feelings toward her as a dog as a guide dog and certainly is a really incredible teammate it wasn't for the dog also probably would have still be under the rubble but you know the dog was there and I'm I'm just grateful for that my two kids that came after 9/11 yeah I think it was just a blessing would not have been here but they had to be here and I think that's happened for a reason jazz passed away while I was even out of the country I was away on business and [Music] we work so closely with these dogs and they asked nothing of us but they will do what they can they will literally put their life on the life or is it in one way or another well when you go through that experience together you you become one and you can't ever separate that out I think the most important thing he taught me is to have unconditional compassion to be non-judgmental and wide your talents to life he didn't know about terrorists or planes or buildings coming down he didn't know all these horrible things he brought the goodness out of people I think that sticks on my mind the most was wouldn't the the FBI came made a presentation to me and they could they found a serious water bowl they cleaned it up and he gave it to me and I still have it to this day yeah I guess I guess I kind of missed a big guy the memory of serious will live on for a long time in Lower Manhattan's Battery City Park a serious dog run was built and dedicated to him in 2005 the Memorial reunion ends here were the 9/11 veterans and their new dogs and future generations of dogs get to romp and play as a tribute to the hero dogs of 9/11 okay [Music] Oh Africa let's go but didn't we have there this is Chief James chief nobody [Music] they search day and night for survivors and when it was clear there were no more they found the remains of victims and gave anguished families peace they went where it was impossible for humans to go working obediently searching tirelessly risking injury and all they want in return is over the rest wherever and whenever they can the hero dogs of 9/11 we are forever in their debt [Music] you you