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...This confirms that we must continue to take precautions,” he wrote. “The Pit area is one of those area to be prudent...
...remains of the World Trade Center are also being buried. The debris is being trucked from the pit at the center of Ground Zero at a rate of a dozen dump trucks an hour; as of Saturday, the city had already hauled out more than 20,000 tons of debris. It is being driven over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which is closed to traffic, to a 3,000-acre landfill on Staten Island that used to be the city's main dump. The FBI then sifts all the debris for evidence. By the time the operation is completed, an estimated...
Until he retired from the FBI in August, John O'Neill, 49, was America's pit bull on terrorism. As head of the bureau's national-security operations in New York City, he oversaw investigations into the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, both believed to be the work of groups linked to Osama bin Laden. Two weeks ago, O'Neill began a new job: chief of security at the World Trade Center...
...pit, Akana helped set up more triage clinics and worked on not only rescue workers but also corpses found in the rubble. His extensive medical training prepared him for the intense experience, but he was still somewhat traumatized by the horrifying and gruesome things he saw. I was in shock when I dug out a leg from the rubble, he recalls. For the remainder of his time in New York, Akana worked with dead bodies, attempting to retrieve bodies from the wreckage. We would try to get the majority of the body out, so if it was caught under something...
Having worked in the pit, Akana brings a different perspective to the volunteer situation in New York. Almost as upsetting as pulling bodies from the rubble was hearing reports of volunteers who looted triage sites, took equipment from trucks, and stole doctors and firemens uniforms to walk around the site. There was one guy who was actually rapelling off what was left of [the World Trade Center]. There I was, a beautiful sunset in the background, a leg sticking out of the rubble, and a lunatic 100 feet above me climbing like a monkey. It was totally crazy, Akana says...