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World Trade Center
wreckage after
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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
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^<1 kets several acres is trucked , in,
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Police Commissioner Pernarc
Kerik said many ex-cops voliin-
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ivestigators sift through the WorldTrade Center debris at the Fresh Kills.lan^ll? ? . .j .; 50,000 tons of the rubble to
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