You fight for the people you work with. And that was the most amazing thing, to see everybody rushing down to the area to look for possible survivors…
I didn’t rip this [nametag] off so I would always remember him [Tarantino], although that was a happy outcome, because I will never truly forget him or what he did that day. I ripped this off because I had seen him crawl past me, and I was as far in as I figured I could go and not become another casualty. I saw him crawl in past me, slithering along live electrical equipment that was covered in water and popping and smoking, get on his back, and leg-lift up this tremendous amount of debris that was pinning Jerry Henson to his desk just mere feet from a blazing and increasingly intense fire in a smoke-filled -- I can’t even describe the atmosphere. It was horrific.
Dave got in there, did this tremendously heroic act…I went over and introduced myself to Dave, and the first thing I did was rip his nametag off and put it in my pocket, certain that, having seen him in action, he might not make it through the day, and I wanted to be able to identify who that brave man was.