Rescuers must overcome unprecedented obstacles

Washington Times ^ | 9/13/01 | August Gribbin

[kattracks]

Rescue workers clawing through the ash and scoured concrete at the Pentagon and former World Trade Center towers face situations they have never faced before, a federal official says.

"This is unlike hurricane debris. This is concrete and hazardous material that requires a [higher degree of] special handling. And this is huge. In New York, we're confronting the equivalent of ruins from a 285-story building or 28 10-story buildings. This is a massive effort. We've never had to deal with anything of this magnitude or degree," Bruce Baughman, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Planning and Operations Division, said yesterday.

[JohnBovenmyer]

It would be nice if some of our "friends" around the world would send their rescue teams to help ours.

[mrustow]

Actually, Putin said on Wednesady, that he has a plane sitting with rescue crews loaded and ready for takeoff, the moment Bush gives him the word.

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