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Total number
killed in attacks (official figure as of 9/5/02):
2,819
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Number of
firefighters and paramedics killed: 343
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Number of NYPD
officers: 23
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Number of Port
Authority police officers: 37
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Number of WTC
companies that lost people: 60
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Number of
employees who died in Tower One: 1,402
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Number of
employees who died in Tower Two: 614
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Number of
employees lost at Cantor Fitzgerald: 658
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Number of U.S.
troops killed in Operation Enduring Freedom:
22
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Number of
nations whose citizens were killed in attacks: 115
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Ratio of men to
women who died: 3:1
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Age of the
greatest number who died: between 35 and 39
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Bodies found
"intact": 289
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Body parts
found: 19,858
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Number of
families who got no remains: 1,717
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Estimated units
of blood donated to the New York Blood Center:
36,000
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Total units of
donated blood actually used: 258
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Number of
people who lost a spouse or partner in the attacks:
1,609
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Estimated
number of children who lost a parent: 3,051
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FACT: 2001: Larry Silverstein
makes $125 million down payment on WTC Complex valued at
$3.2 billion, but Silverstein insures against terrorist
attack for $7 billion.
FACT:
EXEMPTION ALLOWED - Since 1978, the the WTC Twin Towers
were
allowed an exemption to New York City Building
Codes.
FACT:
EXEMPTION LIFTED -
April 26, 2001,
Larry
Silverstein
signs 99-year, $3.2 billion lease with the New York Port
Authority, thereby "privatizing" the WTC Complex and
statutorily lifting the prior WTC exemption. Deal closed on
July 23, 2001.
The orderly, planned
demolition of a building is preceded by an engineering
survey;
surveys for asbestos
and lead; the cutoff of electric,
gas, water and sewer service; and many other precautions. A
systematic survey and abatement program for asbestos is
mandated by EPA under the Clean Air Act's National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants program. The New York
City Asbestos Control Law also requires a pre-demolition
asbestos survey. Otherwise, demolition can lead to the
uncontrolled release of asbestos particles into the air.
FACT:
The Assembly Office of Research in
California studies WTC deconstruction costs; finds
construction costs could total $20 billion;
FACT:
September 11th, 2001, 9/11 attacks occur;
FACT:
In the weekends prior to 9/11, the
Twin Towers were shut down, evacuated and the power
cut completely off. Employees complained such has never
happened in their twenty years of working in the Twin
Towers. Employees witnessed numerous foreign-looking workers
carrying heavy bags of equipment into the Twin Towers;
FACT:
Silverstein
admits to blowing up WTC Bldg. 7 on PBS documentary,
"America Rebuilds." Silverstein claims he discussed the
demolition with the N.Y. Fire Dept., and the NYFD made the
decision to "pull" WTC Building 7 - OPINION: Baloney. Fire
departments don't blow up 47-story steel and concrete
buildings.
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