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Fears Mount as World Trade Center Tenants Remain Missing
AP
| 9/12/01
| Matt Moore
Posted on 09/12/2001 6:29:36 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
NEW YORK (AP) - For the businesses that called the World Trade Center home, the task of accounting for thousands of workers is the next step. For some companies, it may take days, if not weeks. The twin towers was home to such symbols of Western economic might as Bank of America, Kemper Insurance, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley Dean Whitter, Credit Suisse First Boston and Sun Microsystems.
Normally 50,000 people work in the twin towers, but the first attack came when many workers were not yet in their offices. Officials estimated that 10,000 to 20,000 people were in the buildings when the first plane crashed.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said hospitals had treated 1,100 injured by Tuesday night. But apparently most of the victims remained buried, and ground zero was inaccessible for hours after the disaster due to the fire, smoke, wreckage and searing heat.
The investment company Morgan Stanley had 3,500 workers in the company's individual investor businesses in the south tower. In a message posted on the company's Web site, chairman Philip Purcell said he was saddened and outraged by the attacks.
"In spite of this tragedy, all of our businesses are functioning and will continue to function," he wrote. "We are committed to resuming full operations as exchanges and markets reopen."
Dozens of foreign companies had offices in the towers, including Sinochem American Holdings of China; Japan's Nikko Securities; Germany's CommerzBank AG; Zim-American Israeli Shipping Co. of Israel; and Cantor Fitzgerald of London.
Detlev Rahmsdorf, a spokesman for Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, said more than 300 people work for them in the Trade Center, in offices in the lower floors.
Ted Meyer, another Deutsche Bank spokesman, said the company is working with authorities to verify the safety of their employees. He said the company's financial operations were being transferred to backup facilities.
London-based Cantor Fitzgerald International, as well as eSpeed International, which was spun off by Cantor, said they were still taking stock of the tragedy. ESpeed is an electronic trading service with more than 650 clients worldwide. Both companies had operations on the 101st and 103rd to 105th floors, and employed 1,000 workers there.
"All of our thoughts and prayers are with our New York colleagues and their families and friends at this time," said Howard W. Lutnick, chairman of both companies. "In a very difficult and confused situation we are doing all that we can to determine more about the situations of colleagues."
In San Francisco, Henrik Slipsager of ABM Industries Inc., said his company employed more than 800 engineers, janitors and lighting technicians at the World Trade Center.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with them, and with their families, co-workers and other friends. It is, of course, far too early for us to assess the human and financial toll of this tragedy," he said.
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To: anniegetyourgun
I hope I am wrong, but I have a feeling many workers from the first tower probably went to the other one. I hope not, but if they did that building was hit about midway.
To: A+Bert
You can't go from one tower to the other without going to ground level first. I know many people who worked at Cantor (101-106 1WTC)from my FX years and I have come to the realization that none of them made it out. My sympathies and prayers go out to their families and friends.
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posted on
09/12/2001 6:53:06 AM PDT
by
Woodman
To: A+Bert
No, I dont think so. They tried to exit. However, people in Bldg 2 were told to sit tight after the first bldg was hit. After the hit on about the 60th floor, people below tried walking down, but because of the traffic, it would take 45 min. to get out.It collapsed in 18 minutes. So, pretty much everybody in Bldg 2 above the 15 th floor or so, died.
To: A+Bert
Am I the only one to note that NONE of the firefighters/policement shown during this second day of Infamy was black? How could that possibly be unless their assignments are specialized (safe?)? I know this is not politically correct to mention, but what does it mean?
To: Nonstatist
I work with people with Guy Carpenter & Co. They occupied floors 52 thru 54 in tower 2. They told me that they got the order to evacuate immediately after tower 1 was hit. They believe that virtually everyone in their office got out ok.
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posted on
09/12/2001 7:06:07 AM PDT
by
Z.Hobbs
To: SouthCarolinaKit
What a stupid F'n comment. First of all about 300 Police and Firemen were in the buildings when they collapsed. I know people at the Hospital in Jersey City where the injured and dead have been evacuated. There are direct reports of at least one full battalion of police missing and many wounded. Second of all none of the rescue workers I have seen working on the scene have been race distinguishable I.e. they were so covered with dust they all looked like they were in whiteface. Please go crawl back under your rock.
A good 30-40% of NY's uniformed employees are "ethnic."
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posted on
09/12/2001 7:06:17 AM PDT
by
Woodman
To: Nonstatist
I work with people with Guy Carpenter & Co. They occupied floors 52 thru 54 in tower 2. They told me that they got the order to evacuate immediately after tower 1 was hit. They believe that virtually everyone in their office got out ok.
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posted on
09/12/2001 7:06:52 AM PDT
by
Z.Hobbs
To: Nonstatist
I work with people with Guy Carpenter & Co. They occupied floors 52 thru 54 in tower 2. They told me that they got the order to evacuate immediately after tower 1 was hit. They believe that virtually everyone in their office got out ok.
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posted on
09/12/2001 7:08:02 AM PDT
by
Z.Hobbs
To: SouthCarolinaKit
What a disgusting thing to say. What it means is that your mind is so far beneath contempt that it's appalling.
To: Z.Hobbs
That is really good news! I recently took a course on Life Safety building codes. The instructor mentioned that they had installed emergency lighting in the stairwells of the WTC atfter the '93 bombs. In 93 it took some people 7 hours to walk down from the top floors, because they were coming down in the pitch dark. Those lights may have saved many lives!
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posted on
09/12/2001 7:17:10 AM PDT
by
Alissa
To: Z.Hobbs
Are you related to Tom Hobbs of Cantor?
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posted on
09/12/2001 7:19:30 AM PDT
by
Woodman
To: Nonstatist
NO!
I work for Morgan Stanley, and there were people on the 67th, 72nd, and 78th floors that got out of 2 World Trade (south tower)!
To: Z.Hobbs
I know somebody with friends at Morgan Stanley , and they were told to sit still, So I guess it depended..
To: BlessedBeGod
Woops! Then I stand corrected, I heard wrong, ..sorry. Thank goodness.
To: Nonstatist
What I heard was that 2 WTC was told to evacuate, and then when they were in the stairwells they were told to return to their offices. I have been through this in a building before, and my rule of thumb is evacuate before they tell you to, and ignore orders to return. I hope not too many were Sheeple and followed what would have been my advice.
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posted on
09/12/2001 7:40:27 AM PDT
by
Woodman
To: Woodman
Only if Mark Twain was related to Joe Twain. Hobbs is strictly an alias.
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posted on
09/12/2001 7:40:28 AM PDT
by
Z.Hobbs
To: A+Bert
I hope I am wrong, but I have a feeling many workers from the first tower probably went to the other one. I hope not, but if they did that building was hit about midway. There was time between the first strike to the second to evacuate the entire South tower and the lower floors of the North. Whether they did or not is another question. My own office building which is right across the street, the World Financial Center, was evacuated immediately after they knew that the plane hit the North Tower.
To: anniegetyourgun
This is something to keep in mind also,the casualties from this attack are International in scope.
Not just Americans died here.
The civilized nations of the world must wreak a terrible vengence on the perpetrators.
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posted on
09/12/2001 7:46:42 AM PDT
by
tet68
To: SouthCarolinaKit
Jeezus what a friggin idiot you are. Many of the firemen working today have been shipped in from outside NYC to replace those who were either killed or are too exhausted to continue. They're coming from white(r) communities.
Once again, you're a friggin idiot!
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posted on
09/12/2001 7:54:53 AM PDT
by
12B
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