Quote Originally Posted by headshake
how many firefighters and cops were there to start? the first reports were upwards of 10,000 dead. i'm pretty sure they would have taken volunteers, trained or not.

-shake
The city told people to stay away. We had thosands of volunteer PROFESSIONALS coming in from the Tri-State area, and beyond.

I did my part by going back to work in the financial district when the offices reopened the following week. We had to deal every day with airborne chemicals from Ground Zero, and with bomb and anthrax threats to our workplaces. This was not a walk in the park, for anybody in NYC at the time.
Breukelen advocaat Reviewed by Breukelen advocaat on . Super-Thermite Do you think Dick Cheney will say so.....or shit happens? Scientists find active 'super-thermite' in WTC dust Joe Byrne Published: Saturday April 4, 2009 A team of nine scientists have released a startling new report on the events of 9/11, using data from dust gathered in the days and weeks after the towers came down. They discovered that scattered throughout the dust samples were red and gray chips of 'active thermitic material', or an un-reacted pyrotechnic explosive. Thermite is Rating: 5