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...mistaken for skin because here both have turned gray. When a fire fighter's body is found, "there is dead silence," says fireman Jeff Silver, 34. "All the machinery is cut off, and everybody takes their helmets off while a body bag is brought over and brothers from his station come and carry him away...
Communications should also be back up quickly. Flying debris punched at least six big holes in Verizon's West Street telephone-switching station, which served the WTC, and the emergency power equipment in its basement was flooded from water-main breaks. Verizon worked over the weekend to bring the New York Stock Exchange back online, and the company hopes to provide at least interim service to most of the area by the end of the week. Gas lines, which pose the greatest risk, will take the longest to turn on, leaving the residents of neighboring Battery Park City homeless...
...stack became a heap, then a small mountain. By Thursday night, the 4-ft. mound of tributes to the fire fighters of Engine 54/Ladder 4 in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--food donations, flowers, cards, American flags and photos of the station's fire fighters missing at the World Trade Center site--had grown so big that a second pile of flowers had to be started alongside the entrance. Captain Richard Parenty found the tributes so gratifying they were almost painful: "It's so good to feel appreciated, and it's draining. Even the outpouring of support...
...parties and picnics. One guy used to get on top of the building across the street and get in the cherry picker on the fire truck and be Santa." Even, or especially, for neighbors who didn't have a personal connection to the fire fighters or the victims, the station provides an emotional focus. Tamar Kaman, a cosmetics marketer who lives three blocks away, cried as she added flowers to the pile. "This is as close as I've gotten to some of the victims," she said. "Whether or not I can identify all the faces, I feel connected...
...have left even the savviest leaders unsure about their positions and wary of catastrophic errors of judgment. State television, with its hard-line bias and Soviet-style programming, has long ceased to be a reliable source of information. So leaders watched cnn and Al-Jazeera, an Arabic all-news station, for the latest news...