Stanley Forman's news photos have gripped Boston for decades. Now 80 years old, Forman still listens to three police scanners in his truck, hustling for the next big photo.

But the image he'll always remember is one he took of a fatal 1975 fire.

As the fire was racing through an apartment building, Forman saw a firefighter who had just reached a young woman and a 2-year-old girl trapped on a rickety fifth-story fire escape. Then, the unthinkable happened.

"And then it went. Just collapsed. For whatever reason, it collapsed. The fire escape collapsed," Forman told CBS News. "They're falling. There's no doubt they're falling, and the fire escape coming down behind them. I realized two people had fallen to the ground."

Stanley Forman's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of 19-year-old Diana Bry

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