Tragically, two New York City firefighters died battling a blaze at a Ground Zero building yesterday. The FDNY firefighters were overcome with smoke inhalation on the 14th floor of the 41-story Deutsche Bank building that is located across the street from the former World Trade Center Tower 2 (that was struck by the second [...]
The I35W Bridge in downtown Minneapolis collapsed less than two weeks ago, however, state officials in Minnesota have already began to plan for building a new bridge. This is a particularly uncomfortable issue considering that there are still three victims missing.
Recovery operations are as an important phase in Public Safety as first [...]
Monday, August 6, 2007
Recovery and clean-up efforts are beginning nearly five days after the Interstate 35W Bridge collapse. As of today, five persons have been killed, eight are missing and over 100 were injured. The grim task of clean-up and searching for the missing victims, while concurrently conducting an investigation is [...]
An interstate highway bridge in downtown Minneapolis plunged into the Mississippi river yesterday killing 9 persons and injuring over 60. The collapse occurred at approximately 6:00 PM in the height of rush-hour traffic and the incident does not, at this time appear to be related to a terror-attack.
A responding Minneapolis police lieutenant, quoted [...]
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