Sentences with phrase «trade center debris»

«The fuming World Trade Center debris pile was a chemical factory that exhaled toxins in a particularly dangerous form that could penetrate deep into the lungs of rescue workers and local residents,» Cahill and his fellow researchers concluded.

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On Sept. 11, 2001, Mackey was on his way to the S&P ratings agency near the World Trade Center, close enough to the falling towers that debris rained down upon him.

The problem is that no other such symbol was erected on the location, and that that cross, if I remember correctly, was resurrected from the debris that was once the World Trade Center.

Sixteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers sent a «cloud» of toxic debris across Lower Manhattan, children living nearby who likely breathed in the ash and fumes are showing early signs of risk for future heart disease.

(Indeed, 7 World Trade Center, a steel - framed high - rise, was not struck by an aircraft but collapsed because of fire ignited by debris from the Twin Towers.)

The report affirmed what whistle - blowers have alleged all along: that the burning pile of debris at the World Trade Center site was extremely hazardous.

The building, at 75 Park Place, was just a few hundred feet to the north of the World Trade Center site — so close that debris scarred the structure and the windows in the lobby were blown out.

During the 9/11 terrorist attacks, guide dogs Salty and Roselle successfully led their owners down the stairs of the World Trade Center before its collapse, despite the debris and hysteria.

Immediately following the attacks of 9/11, nearly 100 trained search dogs and their handlers — enlisted from 18 U.S. states — were deployed by FEMA to join the rescue efforts at the World Trade Center in New York and at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Alongside firemen and other teams sorting through the debris, the dogs worked tirelessly around the clock to locate survivors in the rubble — images of which deeply intrigued Dutch photographer Charlotte Dumas as the events unfolded in the news media.

Silhouetted objects drift slowly downward, recalling the bodies and debris that fell from the World Trade Center on September 11.