USA: DRY-CLEANING BUSINESS SPECIALISING IN FIREFIGHTERS' CLOTHING IN GREAT DEMAND FOLLOWING ATTACK ON WORLD TRADE CENTRE.

Record ID: 376126

  • Title: USA: DRY-CLEANING BUSINESS SPECIALISING IN FIREFIGHTERS' CLOTHING IN GREAT DEMAND FOLLOWING ATTACK ON WORLD TRADE CENTRE.
  • Date: 1st October 2001
  • Summary: PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 30, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: TRI-LEX CLEANERS EXTERIOR 0.07 2. GV/CU/TILT: UNLOADING FIREFIGHTER CLOTHING (2 SHOTS) 0.35 3. VARIOUS: LAUNDERING FIREFIGHTER CLOTHING (8 SHOTS) 1.49 NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 28, 2001) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 4. CU: SOUNDBITE (English) DAVID KORNHAUSER, PRESIDENT, TRI-LEX CLEANERS SAYING, "For the next six to seven weeks we're gonna be working twenty-four hours a day, two runs a day, going in and out, pickup and delivery, until we clean the whole entire city one time around. We're gonna go to every battalion once a day." 2.01 5. GV/MV: VARIOUS OF UNLOADING UNIFORMS AT FIRE STATION (4 SHOTS) 2.45 6. MCU: SOUNDBITE (English) NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT CAPTAIN TIMOTHY MCKINNEY SAYING, "The basic thing that the Fire Department is looking for is the reliability to actually wash the material in a way that won't destroy it along the way and bring it up to a good condition, a usable condition, where we have no compromises with safety." 3.07 7. MV/PAN: CAPTAIN TIMOTHY MCKINNEY SHOWING UNIFORMS BEFORE AND AFTER CLEANING 3.18 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th October 2001 13:00
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  • Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA1DJP1Y1ABQHHE8FLVECZDOA63
  • Story Text: The services of a dry cleaning business which
    specialises dealing with in firefighters' protective clothing
    have been in great demand from the New York Fire Department
    since the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11,
    2001.



    For the past two weeks, the clothing that New York
    City firefighters have been wearing during their search and
    rescue efforts at the World Trade Center site has been sent to
    a dry cleaning business in Passaic, New Jersey called Trilex.

    The protective clothing that firefighters wear would
    damaged if it was cleaned in a standard washer or dryer
    because it becomes so heavy with water once washed that any
    dryer hot enough to dry it cause the clothes to shrink and
    break the metal fasteners.

    Normally, Trilex cleans about 800 such suits a week, but
    at the present time the total is closer to 1500.

    Kornhauser thinks his company will be working at full
    capacity for several weeks ahead. He said: "For the next six
    to seven weeks we're gonna be working twenty-four hours a day,
    two runs a day, going in and out, pickup and delivery, until
    we clean the whole entire City one time around... We're gonna
    go to every battalion once a day."
    New York Fire Department Captain Timothy McKinney said it
    was of prime importance that any dry cleaner used by the Fire
    Department could be relied upon not to impair the safety
    features of the specialised fabric of the firefighters'
    outfits.

    He said: "The basic thing that the Fire Department is
    looking for is the reliability to actually wash the material
    in a way that won't destroy it along the way, and bring it up
    to a good condition, a usable condition, where we have no
    compromises with safety."
    One firefighter's suit, informally called 'turn-out gear',
    costs about 1500 United States dollars.


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