WTC security and emergency response newspaper article

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Army of workers tackles grisly task at S.l. landfill By PHIUP MESSING 100 cars, vehicles from 10 people involved are about As of yesterday mom- In one of the biggest evi­ fire ladder companies and 100 city detectives, 35 to ing, searchers had pro- dence searches ever at­ five engine companies, 40 FBI agents, and repre- cessed 50 tons of rubble. tempted, hundreds of and a .40-caliber gun, like sentatives of the Secret Hanging over the cops, firemen, volunteers the ones used by Port Au- Service, National Trans- NYPD’s rrimp-crPTiP-iinit and others are carefully thority police. portation Safety Board, tent is a badly tattered combing through tons of They’ve also found body Immigration and Naturali- io-by-15-foot American World Trade Center rub­ parts, including a head. from Liberty Plaza ble at a Staten Island land­ It’s a corporal work of "Cohol, Tobacco and ground zero fill. mercy. These people Sanitation At the Fresh Kills land­ Deputy Departoent. prepare for,” said fill — a barren setting that NYPD Inspector James snrawtoe site^irefiLt^ Sgt. Ray Sheehan, one of now looks like a lunar landscape — men in white Siveenort. using the “iaws of life” cnme-sceneumt. jumpsuits, yellow boots seagulls then^eYamining parts and “Sometimes you find an and purple respirators circled above, Pohce vehicle identification arm, sometimes a toe,” he rake over pieces of debris Commissioner Bernard numbers. said. to find thousands of items Kerik and Chief of Detec- “We’re trying to find out “You’ve got to try to be ranging from charred Fire tives William Allee yes- who they belong to,” said professional, to not con- Department helmets to terday toured the bleak Peter Cassidy, who is 20 centrate on the [victims]. scorched shoes. site, located on 130 acres days from retiring after 30 “But when you go home They’ve also separated of the 3,000-acre landfill years in the Linden, N.J., at night, you’ve got to hug from the rubble at least Among the 300 to 400 Fire Department. your kids,” Sheehan said.

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