Three Hundred of New York's Finest Missing in Terror Attack

NewsMax.com ^ | 9/11/01 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

200 New York City firefighters are missing and presumed dead tonight along with 78 city police, who were apparently trapped as the two gigantic World Trade Center Towers collapsed in the world's worst terrorist attack ever.

Also presumed dead: three of the city fire department's top brass, one senior NYPD official and several top officials with the Port Authority, which ran the World Trade Center.

Thousands of bodies remained buried Tuesday night in rubble that in some areas reaches five stories high. By 10 p.m., three thousand known casualities had been evacuated to area hospitals and rescue centers.

Estmates of civillian casualties are still sketchy. But some fear the Twin Tower death toll may be America's highest since Nov. 1862, when 22,000 Union and Confederate soldiers perished in a single day's battle at Antietam -- the bloodiest day in U.S. history.

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[PhiKapMom]

They just said on Fox that the entire NYC Bomb Squad perished in this attack of terrorism.

[Tanniker Smith]

A minor correction: firefighters are New York's Bravest, police are the Finest.

There were reports this morning that firemen were rushing in as the buildings were being evacuated, no one could have expected them to fall as they did. (Normally, don't they have to assess and/or secure the buildings before they go in?)

Entire fire companies are "missing", though there are scattered reports that some fire/police are alive in the rubble at the moment.

[CaptRon]

Apparently the Chief of Department died with his men. There is a fire company directly across the street from the south tower. I know, I used to work there.

[lavaroise]

Remember the a$$ holes who said Vietnam was not worth the casualties. Now with the advance of accepted communism in the world we have, in one day as many people die as died during the 10 year Vietnam war. I tell you what, we don't smash the thug leaders of this world that head the UN, we are going to see the rate of Americans dying because of communism at an exponentialy increasing rate.