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Fire service “on the menu”
Congratulations to Bill Manning for his Editor’s Opinion regarding the fire service being on the “menu” (“Fire Service on the Menu at DHS,” May 2003). I think he has said it all. One has to only keep in mind that it was President Bush’s goal to eliminate the funding for the Fire Act prior to 9/11 to know what our fate would ultimately be. The euphoria surrounding post-9/11 made a lot of us in the fire service think that we would be treated differently. Thanks to Manning for the reality check.
Gary Cassanelli
Chief
Springfield (MA) Fire Department
I wanted to compliment Bill Manning on “Fire Service on the Menu at DHS.” It was an excellent analysis of the plight we find ourselves in. As a firefighter for 30 years, I’ve seen hard times before. Since 9/11, I have seen my state giving tons of money to police and health departments. Firefighters have been left holding the bag. I’m worr
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Scientists still working to ID victims from 9/11
NEW YORK — Thousands of vacuum-sealed plastic pouches filled with bits of bone rest in a Manhattan laboratory. These are the last unidentified fragments of the people who died in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
On Saturday, the 7,930 pouches are to be moved in a solemn procession from the city medical examiner’s office to the new trade center site. They will be kept in a bedrock repository 70 feet underground in the new Sept. 11 Memorial Museum that opens May 21.
The remains will be accessible only to families of the dead and to the forensic scientists who are still trying to match the bone slivers to DNA from the more than 1,000 victims who never came home and have never been identified.
“Our commitment to return the remains to the families is as great today as it was in 2001,” said Mark Desire, who oversees the four-member World Trade Center team in the city’s Office of the Chief Medical
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New resting place, same mission: Scientists still working to ID remains from Sept. 11 attacks
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Thousands of vacuum-sealed plastic pouches filled with bits of bone rest in a Manhattan laboratory. These are the gods unidentified fragments of the people who died in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
On Saturday, the 7,930 pouches are to be moved in a solemn procession from the city medical examiner’s office to the new trade centre site. They will be kept in a bedrock repository 70 feet underground in the new Sept. 11 Memorial Museum that opens May 21.
The remains will be accessible only to families of the dead and to the forensic scientists who are still trying to match the bone slivers to DNA from the more than 1,000 victims who never came home and have never been identified.
“Our commitment to return the remains to the families fryst vatten as great today as it was in 2001,” says Mark Desire, who oversees the four-member World Trade Center tea