00:00Today, we also remember another hero of 9-11.
00:03After the plane hit the South Tower,
00:05a group of people on the 78th floor were trapped with broken bones,
00:10charred skin and eyes and lungs filled with black smoke.
00:14Death was all about them.
00:16It was certain.
00:16They were sure they were going to die.
00:18Then suddenly a rescue appeared.
00:21They call him the man in the red bandana.
00:25Have you heard that term?
00:26The man in the red bandana has become more famous than me.
00:28I don't like it.
00:30Very unhappy, but he's become much more famous than me.
00:35Now, as a man in the red bandana,
00:37he had found the only stairwell that barely survived.
00:41The stairwells were all knocked down.
00:44You couldn't get by impassable.
00:47He found an opening in one of the stairwells.
00:50The impact was so great, there was no other way down.
00:54But this one little opening, this one little hole,
00:56and traveled down from the 104th floor to look for those trapped and dying.
01:02When he heard cries for help on the 78th floor,
01:06he began extinguishing the fires, blocking the exit,
01:10directing survivors who could walk,
01:12of which there weren't that many.
01:14He helped some out physically.
01:15They literally pulled him out toward the only working stairwell and carried those who couldn't walk.
01:21And he just did things that people said were not even imaginable because they knew they were dead.
01:28They said, we're goners.
01:29One guy was screaming, we're goners, we're goners.
01:33He didn't know that those he helped,
01:35and nor, who would have known,
01:38but he willingly made all of these trips up and down, up and down, up and down,
01:44over and over again, saving life after life.
01:47That rescuer was a 24-year-old equities trader and volunteer firefighter from Rockland County
01:54named Wells Crowther.
01:57And Wells' father, also a firefighter, great firefighter,
02:01had given him that bandana as a very special tribute.
02:05When he was a boy, he probably knew something about his son.
02:08When asked why he always kept it,
02:11Wells replied, with this red bandana, I'm going to change the world.
02:16I'm going to change the world with this bandana.
02:19Little did he know, on September 11th,
02:21Wells saved many, many people before losing his own life in the South Tower lobby
02:28when the building came down.
02:30He was in the lobby, and that building came down thousands of tons of steel.
