USA: RESCUE TEAMS CONTINUE TO DIG IN RUBBLE FOR SURVIVORS OF TERRORIST ATTACK ON WORLD TRADE CENTER

Record ID: 648080

  • Title: USA: RESCUE TEAMS CONTINUE TO DIG IN RUBBLE FOR SURVIVORS OF TERRORIST ATTACK ON WORLD TRADE CENTER
  • Date: 16th September 2001
  • Summary: (W1)NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 14, 2001)(REUTERS) 1. SLV UNITED STATES PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH'S CONVOY ENTERING GROUND ZERO 0.03 2. MV PAN BURNT OUT FIRE ENGINE 0.10 3. TRACKING SHOTS WRECKAGE; SLV FIREMAN PUTTING OUT SMOULDERING WRECKAGE WITH WATER HOSES (7 SHOTS) 1.38 4. .(SOUNDBITE)(ENGLISH) RESCUE WORKER SAYING "I saw the first building collapse, then the second, it was the worst thing I have ever seen in my life."(paraphrase) 2.05 5. SLV PAN BROKEN WINDOWS; WRECKAGE (2 SHOTS) 2.24 6. SCU "ANTI-ARAB" SIGN ON DOOR WINDOW 2.29 7. MV PAN WORKERS LOOKING AT WRECKAGE 2.37 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 1st October 2001 13:00
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  • Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA9364VM0JKBELXR6YSILTED8CR
  • Story Text: Rescue teams were continuing to dig in the rubble for
    survivors of the attack on New York's World Trade Center after
    heavy rains had temporarily stalled search efforts.

    Fireman and rescue workers on Friday (September 14)
    continued to sort through the rubble of World Trade Center
    buildings that were destroyed on Tuesday (September 11).

    The grim recovery effort by thousands of workers for any
    possible survivors, bodies and evidence was slowed by heavy
    rain that started late on Thursday night and continued into on
    Friday morning.

    Ground Zero is the name by which the site on which the
    twin towers of the World Trade Center stood before being hit
    by hijacked planes on Tuesday
    City officials did not have an update of the number of
    missing immediately available, but they said between 4,200 and
    4,300 people had been treated in New York and New Jersey
    hospitals. Giuliani said on Thursday the list of those missing
    numbered 4,763, bodies recovered numbered 184 and 35 victims
    have been identified.

    Officials at Bellevue Hospital said no victims of the
    attack had been brought in for about 36 hours.

    U.S. President George Bush travelled from Washington
    D.C. to New York on Friday to boost the morale of recovery
    workers and the city as a whole.


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