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SEARCH Wall Street hotel adapts to help rescuers Help tht Breakin MAIN PAGE September 21, 2001 posted' 3'10 AM EDT (0710 GM.?) mail WORLD Ipaeeotl U.S. WEATHER NEW YORK (CNN) -- During the War BUSINESS past two months, former Presidents Relief.! SPORTS George Bush and Bill Clinton dined in POLITICS the ballroom of The Regent Hotel on LAW Wall Street SCI -TECH

SPACE HEALTH They wouldn't have recognized the place ENTERTAINMENT last Week. TRAVEL EDUCATION CAREER Six blocks from the World Trade IN-DEPTH Centers, the managers of the Iwo-year- Workers dean the front of Well Shoats old hotel in a 160-year-old building GCPERTS A6,QLE: Regent Hotel. were preparing for a busy week. WM c off MONEY for THIS CB awl Though most of their guests had left for t.1o4'k,n6,.. 9 the day, the 114-room hotel was C(Q PRINT ¶1419 MOST POPULAF €'Ct QUICK NEWS expecting a good number of guests LOCAL the disaster struck, said communicadous COMMUNITY director Kurt Genden. MULTIMEDIA E-MAIL SERVICES shelter from CNN ON PDA Within minutes of the collapse, people poured in the doors. seeking ABOUT US so deep that hotel workers used snow shovels to remove it dust that became CNN TV from the front steps. what's on they show transcripts Though the hotel had no power Tuesday, guests filled it anyway. Once CNN Headline News checked out Wednesday, the hotel management set about trying to see where it CNN International askCNN could help, Genden said.

series had found two EDITIONS By Wednesday night, the location manager for a television CNN.eom Asia tractor trailer-sized generators and had them delivered to the building. CNN.ecm Europe covered Management quickly converted the ballroom -- the ceiling of which is Set your edition into an around-the -clock relief with the largest Wedgwood panels in the world -- (Languages J center. Time, Inc became the Powered with 70 percent of its normal needs for energy, the hotel i only place within blocks able to serve hot food.

opened. A dozen cots and two dozen beds were set up and bathrooms Were

meal and to Word quickly spread: "That this was the place to come for a hot catch a quick nap," Genden said.

to police and rescue By Thursday, the ballroom was serving 3,000 meals per day hotel to the rubble pile where they were workers. More were delivered from the working.

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