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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

THE NEW York post, Friday, September 26,2001

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ACCEPTING SAD TRUTH ■ By CLfMENTE USI, lARRY CEIONA, MARK STAMEY and ingfell to 5,960. Before yesterday, rhe number ANDYGEUER of missing was set at 6,437. Mayor Giuliani said the number . They live in an emotional twi- dropped as - duplicate names li^t zone. were removed from the list. ^ey cling to hope that their Relatives have registered loved ones are alive. 4.620 people as missing, leading But they are coining to accept Giuliani to suggest the true that they ate dead. death toll may not be as high as So, by the hundreds, they ate coming to the Family Center on Among the 128,050 tons of de­ Pier 94 to seek death certificates bris trucked to the Freshkills for the victims of the World Landfill on Staten Island, work­ Trade Center tragedy. ers found a body yesterday, [t There were 305 on Wednes­ was taken to the medical exam­ day — when the process began iner's office for an autopsy. — and another 260 by yesterday To make it easier for workers afternoon. and residents to get around, the .Z'-, ■■ Among them was Routhier city has cut the size of the fro- Louis, 37, of Brooklyn, whose

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Gruel fate hit Kosovo Brother finally seeks refugee due to retire hero’s death certificate By ClfMENTE USI icky," his son, Sammy, re­ Carlos Lillo rushed to 38-yeM-old West Babylon, Mon GjonbaUu was called, the World Trade Center 14., resident came to the (here the day the World “He said, ‘I can’t find the as soon as the first plane Family Center on Pier 94 Trade Center opened and exits. There's too much . struck. yesterday to seek a death the day terrorists de­ smoke. 1 can’t see where To begin with, he was certificate for his brother. stroyed It. I’m going. I don’t know if an EMS paramedic. I’ll be alive, so keep the I Secondly, his wife, Ceci­ He says it was the hard­ The 65-year-old Kosovo refugee spent 30 years family together.’" lia, worked on the 64th est thing he has ever had working as a maintenance Mon Gionbalha was Hoot of the south tower. to do. man on the 86th floor of never heard from again. She made it out. He is '"I - had co come down the south tower. , Yesterday, Sammy, .11. •kl among the mi«ing- here, even though we still He was going to retire on Oct. 1. But on Sept. 11. began the process of ob- taiiiing a death certificate. He also brought his fa­ Hislitother, Cesar, said Carlos, 37. must have been have no body. “I thought I would be F^99 fate intervened. I frantic as he tried to help blessed by finally getting At 9 a.iru, he called his ther’s comb and tooth­ the victims of the unthink­ wife in The Bronx to say brush to the Family Cen­ SAMMY QdONBALHA a body, but we haven’t ter on Pier 94 so officials able tragedy. ■ I even been blessed with CESAR LILLO he thought a bomb had Mourning for dad. 'He loved his wife; he Hope at ar end. gone off in the north will have DNA if his fa­ that," he said. would do anything for tQwer. Ten minutes later ther’s body is found. aged in the civil war. “He'j my hero," Cesar She*s devastated, but I her, but here he was sav­ "r; after a hijacked airliner Sammy said that, ironi­ Sammy had been plan­ ing dozens of strangers," added. “He was helping need to be there for her. had smashed into the cally, Ms father had gone ning fl big party for hii other people when be because my brother back to Kosovo this sum- Cesar said. south tower — he called dad’s rcllremeat. After enduring a roller­ thought his wife might would do the same for again. mcr to fix up hu brother'. .................._______________ “Now we have to plan still be in the building me." CImeEte Usi coaster of emotions, the ‘He sounded very pan- house, which wa* dam- bb funeraX' he sal±

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