Posted on 06/16/2002 12:22:44 AM PDT by kattracks
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Recovery workers began searching for human remains on Friday in the heavily damaged Deutsche Bank building near the World Trade Center site after New York City reached an agreement with the bank, a fire department spokesman said on Saturday.
The bank's officials wanted assurances that the removal of debris from the 40-story building at 130 Liberty Street, across the street from where the south tower of the World Trade Center had stood, would not harm the rescue workers and others in the area, The New York Times said.
The remains of about a dozen people were found last week in two other nearby buildings that had been damaged in the Sept. 11 hijacked airliner attacks that brought down twin 110-story towers of the World Trade Center.
City officials have estimated that 2,823 people were killed in the attacks.
As part of the pact between the city and the bank, firefighters and rescue workers will wear protective jumpsuits and respirators as they search the building whose facade had been pierced by falling steel and other debris from the attacks.
Test results conducted on the building for contaminants such as mold and asbestos were not yet in, the spokesman said. The search is expected to take about three weeks to complete, he added.
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