DEP Invoice or Financial Record, September 30, 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

LOncH-',/|.. In addition to remains and per­ sonal effects, investigators are looking for clues to the identity, methods and activities of the hi­ jackers, including the four orange- teered to help sift the wreckage, painted flight data and cockpit among them a retired detective voice recorders, commonly known seeking something belonging to as “black boxes,” from the two hi­ his son-in-law, missing in the dis­ jacked Boeing 767s that smashed aster. “It’s a very emotional pro­ through the 110-story skyscrapers, cess,” Kerik said. said Allee. Chief of Detectives William They are not particularly inter­ Allee said 300 to 350 trucks and a ested in the heaps of metal and few -barges have already depos­ concrete debris from the build­ ited their loads at Fresh Kills. ings. “We know what caused the Sanitation workers weigh the two towers to fall down,” he said. material and then dump it on the “We know what happened. We saw hill. Workers pick through each it.” . ■ pile by hand or run it through a Apart from the immense — and mechanical sifter. By yesterday, growing — field of debris, the site the tons of debris had yielded 256 looks like a military encampment. body parts, many personal belong­ Tents and trucks line the perime­ ings and “several” knives and box ter of the work area. There are cutters, officials said. It was not medics, a mobile kitchen and mess known whether these were the hall, a communications center and weapons used by the hijackers to a cell , phone site. There are tents take over the two aircraft that hit and refrigeration trucks and trail­ the Trade Center. ers and work areas covered in “Anything of an evidentiary na­ camouflage netting. ture” is removed and catalogued, An immense, ragged American said Allee. Body parts are stored flag flutters behind one of the in an on-site refrigeration truck tents... and are sent to the medical exam­ “That flag was recovered from iner’s office. the rubble,” said Allee. “That’s our A kind of order is emerging flag.” from the wreckage: There is a pile An address is printed in a corner of flattened cars, another of incin­ of the flag:! 130 Liberty Plaza; a erated trucks — their original shapes impossible to discern — building across the street from the and heavy metal girders are Trade Centdr. stacked together in a heap. As for health concerns, Allee Among the vehicles retrieved said the state Department of En­ are 10 ladder trucks, five fire en­ vironmental Conservation contin­ gines and several support vehicles uously monitors the air at Fresh — battered reminders of the Kills. .He said the medical exam­ nearly 300 city firefighters who iner and other health officials had perished, most of them buried in visited the site and found condi­ the collapse of Tower 2. tions to be safe. Firefighters’ jackets, helmets “We wouldn’t have all these peo­ and other effects were stored in ple wolfing here if it was a health danger,” he said. one tent, which was being treated as a shrine, said Fire Lt. Peter He said the former dump site is Cassidy of Linden, N.J. crucial to the success of the inves­ Some of the I-beams and other tigation. large metal pieces will be re­ “We were fortunate that we cycled, said Allee. started with a flat surface with Sanitation Commissioner Kevin nothing on it,” he said. “We feel Farrell said most of the rest of the very secure here.” material will be buried in Section Allee,-a Staten Islander, said he 1/9, at the foot of Arden Avenue was; happy to see the landfill across the West Shore Express­ closed in March. “But I think ev­ wayin Arden Heights. erybody understands the reasons “I think Staten Islanders accept, why we’re doing this here,” he said. readily, their part in assisting in this tragedy,” Farrell said in a (Advance reporter Heidi press conference yesterday. Singer^contributed to this re­ port. Associated Press mater­ ial was also used.)

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