The pic im looking at is my brother James On his bike it was taken 2 weeks before 9/11/2001
What everyone should know about 1993 WTC.
6 people killed on lower fl near where bomb went off.In 2003 it will be 10 years not so much time when you miss someone you love. I still pray for their family.
Damage Caused by
the 1993 WTC Bombing
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6 civilians killed
Over 1,000 injured
105 firefighters injured - 5 admitted to local hospitals
reinforced floors almost 30 inches think blasted away on 3 levels below grade, plus a concourse level floor, leaving a crater about 150 feet in diameter at it's largest point.
On the B1 level, the operations control center of the Port Authority Police Department (and the fire command station forthe complex) was heavily damaged and rendered out of service.
On the B2 level, various walls of elevator shafts and freshair plenums severely damaged, allowing smoke to enter and rise through the cores of both towers.
Numerous concrete walls destroyed or damaged.
200,000 cubic feet of water poured into the lowest grade from damaged refrigeration unit supplies (from the Hudson River), sewer lines, fresh domestic water lines, steam pipes, and condensate return. Water 1.5 feet deep across the B6 level.
124 parked cars destroyed, 102 damaged.
Partition walls blown out onto PATH train mezzanine.
Numerous telephone conduits collapsed from ceiling onto cars (but phone service was not cut, miraculously).
Fire alarm and public address systems out of service.
Elevators out of service.
Water cooled emergency generators shut down due to overheating when their water supply was cut. This disabled the emergency lighting.
Sprinklers & standpipes out of service.
2,500 tons of rubble removed.
Clean up effort involved 2,700 workers per day, plus a total of 160,000 gallons of cleaning fluid and 200,00 gallons of detergent.
Restoration cost: $250,000,000.
Source: FDI New York |
What everyone should know about 2001 WTC The report is from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiners
World Trade Center Operational unit.
Total reported missing 2,752
total Victims Identified 1528
Total remains Recovered
from ground 0 and fresh kills 19,917
These #'s do not reflect the people lost at the Pentagon and
in the feilds of PA. We are with you and your family's always.
Below are 2 pics of the temporary resting place of all remains
not yet identified
Memorial Park
Trailers that house all the remains
I wanted to take the time to thank everone at the Medical Examiners Office for all there Hard work. If it was not for
all the caring people there working so hard on the DNA
none of our love ones would come home to us. My family
and the rest of the familys who lost love ones on 9/11
thank you.
To all the UNION workers my brothers and sisters who
worked 24 hrs a day at gound 0, 7 days a week. thank you
is just not enough. Thank you for bringing my brother home
to my family.We can never repay your kindness. All of you
are whats best in our country.Im proud of our union's Local 79,'731, 608,638, Iron workers, local union 3,opp Engine's.
if I left out your local Im sorry there were so many Its hard
to remember them.
Thanks to the FDNY and NYPD.
To our boys over seas I wish I was with you but can
only send you words of thanks, But most of all
GO GET THEM ALL!!!!
To my brother in LU3MC thank for all that you have
done To much to put down. Im proud to be apart of
you And to all my brothers and sisters in Local union
#3 IBEW there are no words for all that you have done.
