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The
Tombstone at Ground Zero
More
than six years after 9/11, the toxic shell of the Deutsche
Bank building remains standing. A tale of dysfunction that
has cost taxpayers over $150 million - and taken the lives
of two New York City firefighters.
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Engineer
Pleads Not Guilty in Fatal Bronx Fire
The
Bronx DA's office says an 83-year-old engineer lied about
using steel in a building that caught fire and collapsed and
left two firefighters dead in 2006.
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Thermal
Imaging Cameras: Making the Standard
Athanas,
a firefighter of more than 20 years with the FDNY, became
the chairman of a working group that was formed out of the
workshop to help advise the NFPA on creating a suitable
standard.
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NIST
Evaluates Firefighting Tactics in NYC High-Rise Test
The
experiments on NYC's Governors Island, conducted in
partnership with the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) and
New York's Polytechnic University, examined the
effectiveness of firefighting tactics
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Fan
Company Blows Away NYC Fire Department Chiefs
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Widow
of Fatally Shot NYC Fire Marshal is Indicted
The
widow of a New York City fire marshal who was fatally shot
in his Staten Island home in December has surrendered to
face a sealed indictment.
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Another
Ghost of 9/11 Is Cleared for Demolition
Fiterman
Hall — a semi-ruin since 9/11 that still stands, like the
former Deutsche Bank building as a ghost on the edge of
ground zero — is expected to be razed within a year, now
that federal regulators have approved a decontamination
plan.
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Rising
from the Pit
The
reborn World Trade Center will begin rising above street
level this spring - when the Freedom Tower's steel frame
emerges from its 80-foot-deep construction pit, officials
say.
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Federal
Spending on WTC Responder's Treatment: $261 Million Plus
A
March 11 report from the Government Accountability Office to
a congressional joint economic committee says NIOSH now has
a good handle on estimated costs to treat thousands of
firefighters, police officers, and others who responded to
the World Trade Center site during and after Sept. 11, 2001.
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Sept.
11 Victims' Kin Get Chance To See Pope
The
Archdiocese of New York is organizing a lottery to allow a
small group of family members of victims of the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks to accompany Pope Benedict XVI to
the World Trade Center site next month.
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