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■ 400 sleuths are Fresh Kills. City officials believ 3 as much as 3 million tons of d( §

.A Aiafciiaia combing through World Trade Center wreckage after it is trucked to Fresh Kills bris from Lower Manhattan coul end up at what was the notoriou Fresh Kills Landfill that plague Staten Island for 50 years. About 400 city detectives, FB agents, Secret Service agents, Bn reau of Alcohol, Tobacco ani •'W Firearms officers, and Nations Guardsmen work the site, 100 ti By DIANA YATES 150 at a time. Wearing white pro ADVANCE STAFF WRITER tectlve jumpsuits, hard hats ani respirators, they drag garde) rakes through the piles of litter BA; A week ago, the southernmost

'WBBsaSB mound of garbage at the Fresh Kills landfill was a quiet, bare ex­ panse. Today it hosts a crime in­ vestigation of colossal propor­ They’re looking for clues, hilmai remains and any personal item: that somehow survived the build ings’ collapse. “It’s gruesome work, it’s de

®sa»® tions, covered with hqaps of ash, gnarled metal, concrete slabs and, yes, partial human remains. Crows and gulls perch on the piles, and turkey vultures have pressing/’ said police Lt. Raj Sheehan, a brime scene expert?. “We are all united to achieve S coirtmon goal. The entire thing k begun to\ plague investigators. humbling,” said Deputy Police In­ spector James Luongo, the offi­ 1^? I The gruesome debris that blan- cer in charge.

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/a. 6|Ol C c' day and might, from the World . : Trade Center disaster. Police Commissioner Pernarc Kerik said many ex-cops voliin- . „ „„ _ _____ ................ , , . Tractor-trailers, dump trucks •• r ' " ' 'IfivitiQ SILVERSTEIN ,, ;/and barges have already carted ivestigators sift through the WorldTrade Center debris at the Fresh Kills.lan^ll? ? . .j .; 50,000 tons of the rubble to j<r~

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