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World Trade Center: Towers
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The first official estimate of fatalities in the World Trade Center was 10,000, including firefighters, police officers and rescue crews on the ground. People could be seen falling or jumping out of the Trade Towers an hour after the first plane crashed into one of the world's tallest buildings.
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Approximately eight stories of the World Trade Center's northeast tower were twisted but standing, while the rubble of the other tower smoldered. Rescuers are focusing their efforts on those eight floors, using a walkway around the first level of the building in an attempt to gain access to the floors above.
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The original tower at 7 World Trade Center was destroyed in the attack on Sept 11. Mr. Silverstein began rebuilding the tower, which sits at the corner of Vesey and Greenwich Streets, in 2002.
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With the collapse of Tower Two, ``World Trade Center" becomes a survival film, the sort of true-life saga that might make a decent TV movie if the surrounding event weren't burned into our collective psyche. The men of McLoughlin's team are pinned under concrete blocks that shift with dreadful, impersonal unpredictability. One of the cops does something that looks like suicide; whether Stone muffs the scene or he's protecting the man's memory isn't clear.
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A federal investigation of the World Trade Center disaster found that a key culprit in the buildings’ collapse was spray-on fireproofing. The planes’ impact dislodged this material from the towers’ steel columns and, unprotected from the searing heat, the columns buckled. Freedom Tower architects promise a better grade of fireproofing, but fire safety expert Glenn Corbett notes, “That’s like saying you’ll use a better grade of Dixie cup.”
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