The Eleventh Day_ The History and Legacy of 9_11 - Anthony Summers [235]
5 Buzzelli: USA Today, 9/5/02, Langewiesche, 103–;
6 McLoughlin/Jimeno/Marines: Slate, 9/10/02, NY Post, 8/7/06, Times Herald-Record, 1/18/02. The two former Marines were David Karnes, at the time an accountant with Deloitte Touche, and Jason Thomas, who on 9/11 was attending the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
7 fellow overboard: Langewiesche, 62.
8 “onslaught”: MFR 04018541, 4/15/04;
9 personnel/surgeons: int. Dr. Glenn Asaeda, TF, 10/11/01;
10 by midnight: “DOD Medical Support to the Federal Response Plan,” Washington, D.C.: Office of the Inspector General, Dept. of Defense, 5/10/02, 7;
11 “A person’s torso”: int. Benjamin Badillo, TF, 1/24/02;
12 “I-beams”: int. Charles Blaich, TF, 10/23/01;
13 “A woman’s”: DiMarco, 270;
14 “The body”: eds. Der Spiegel, 243;
15 “You couldn’t”: Barrett & Collins, 248;
16 21,744: New York, 1/7/10;
17 medical examiner: NYT, 7/14/02, & see “World Trade Center Operational Statistics,” Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, NYC, 9/9/03;
18 2009: update, “DNA Testing of Remains,” 2/1/09, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, www.nyc.gov;
19 Deutsche Bank: “Deutsche Bank Building—FAQ,” Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, www.renewny.com;
20 manholes/road: AP, 4/8/08.
21 Fresh Kills: NYT, 3/24/07. According to a sworn affidavit by Eric Beck, a supervisor for Taylor Recycling, the process at Fresh Kills involved creating a mixture used to pave city streets and fill potholes. Troubled by the implication that fragments of their loved ones may have become part of this mixture, relatives of the dead went to federal court in 2007 to plead that the sifted debris be removed from the site and reburied in a more appropriate setting on a site nearby. In 2009, a judge dismissed the families’ suit, citing in part the city’s intention of redeveloping the now closed Fresh Kills landfill into a park and nature reserve that would include a memorial to the 9/11 victims (NYT, 3/24/07, Staten Island Advance, 7/7/08, NY Post, 7/8/08);
22 1,229: NYT, 7/14/02;
23 401: authors’ calculation based on figures in NYT, 7/14/02, 5/12/11, and ABC News, 5/13/11.
24 “I see this”: int. Jason Charles, TF, 1/23/02;
25 “The ambulances”: int. Michael Cahill, TF, 10/17/01;
26 “People were”: int. Richard Broderick, TF, 10/25/01;
27 “Nobody could”: int. David Blacksberg, TF, 10/23/01;
28 “Everybody’s coughing”: int. Jody Bell, TF, 12/15/01;
29 “Our face-pieces”: int. Paul Bessler, TF, 1/21/02;
30 “My lungs were”: int. Paul Adams, TF, 11/1/01;
31 “The sergeant asked”: int. Jason Charles, TF, 1/23/02;
32 9:59/FC: NY Daily News, 9/30/01;
33 asbestos, etc., in dust: “EPA’s Response to the World Trade Center Collapse,” Washington, D.C., Office of the Inspector General, Environmental Protection Agency, 8/21/03, Cate Jenkins [EPA] to Monona Rossol, 11/15/01, www.whitelung.org, NYT, 9/14/01, Newsweek, 10/5/01, Der Spiegel, 12/20/06, DiMarco, 130, Gail Sheehy, Middletown, America, NY: Random House, 2003, 41;
34 seven blocks: Village Voice, 7/31/07;
35 “We lost”/Torcivia: DiMarco, 191–, St. Petersburg Times, 2/3/02;
36 2007 study: UPI, 5/9/07;
37 2,000 firefighters: Guardian (U.K.), 1/28/08;
38 “The World Trade Center dust”: Voice of America, 4/8/10;
39 young attorney: (Felicia Dunn-Jones) “NYC Links First Death to Toxic Dust,” www.msnbc.com, 5/23/07;
40 “sick and under”: Fact Sheet, http://stws.org, Sacramento Bee, 1/6/11;
41 479 people: NY Post, 9/6/09;
42 One by one: e.g., WSJ, 12/9/10, Dallas Morning News, 11/29/10, New York Post, 1/10/11, NY Daily News, 3/30/11;
43 risen to 664: NY Post, 9/12/10;
44 James Zadroga Act/$4.2 billion/“We will never”: USA Today, 2/2/11, H.R. 847 James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act 2010, http://thomas.loc.gov;
45 “very reassuring”: “EPA’s Response to the WTC Collapse”;
46 “safe to go”: ibid., NYT, 9/18/01.
47 “safe to breathe”: “EPA’s Response to the WTC Collapse.” John Henshaw has since explained that