"Fire burns 3 buildings at Flight 93 memorial site" Associated Press October 04, 2014
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — A fire destroyed three administrative buildings at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania, and officials are concerned about memorabilia stored there.
The National Park Service said no one was injured when the fire broke out Friday afternoon. The memorial and the visitors center, under construction, were unaffected. Both are about 2 miles from the fire, whose cause hasn’t been determined.
The buildings in Shanksville house the park’s headquarters. Officials say about 10 percent of the memorial’s archival collection was kept on site, but many objects were in fireproof safes. Among the items was a flag that flew over the US Capitol on Sept. 11, 2001. Its status is unclear.
The affected buildings serve as the park’s headquarters and include the superintendent’s office, National Parks spokesman Mike Litterst said.
The memorial, still under construction in Shanksville, marks the spot where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The plane, which was traveling from Newark to San Francisco, went down in a reclaimed strip mine after passengers fought back against its hijackers.
Then why was there no wreckage?
All 33 passengers and seven crew members were killed along with the hijackers.
A memorial plaza was completed in time for the 10th anniversary of the attacks in 2011. It features a white stone wall, which traces the path of the doomed flight, with separate panels for each victim. There are plans for a 93-foot-tall tower with 40 wind chimes.
Officials have said they hope construction of the visitors center, which is estimated to cost $17 million to $23 million, will be finished by June.
That would give park officials three months to install exhibits in time to open for the 14th anniversary of the crash.
The president of the Families of Flight 93, Gordon Felt, issued a statement expressing sadness about the fire and saying the group awaited further information on the cause.
All told, the park is expected to cost about $60 million. The government spent another $10 million for the land, which is about 75 miles east of Pittsburgh.
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"Flight 93 fire losses included photos, other items" Associated Press October 25, 2014
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — An inventory released Friday of items lost from a recent fire at the Flight 93 National Memorial headquarters includes hundreds of original photographs and items found at the crash site that were linked to the passengers and crew.
The National Park Service said its team of museum experts and archeologists determined that 334 photos and 25 items connected to the plane’s occupants were destroyed. Digital copies of all the lost photos still exist, and audio recordings of phone calls made by passengers to family were undamaged.
There couldn't have been phone calls from a plane that high up, etc.
Just part of the scenery, right?
Other items lost in the Oct. 3 fire include about 100 tributes from visitors and material from the investigation. The plane crashed after passengers fought back against hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001.
That's the official myth, anyway.
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Let's roll!
"3 NYC firefighters who worked at ground zero die of cancer on same day" Associated Press September 26, 2014
NEW YORK — Three retired firefighters who worked at ground zero have died on the same day from cancer, an illness that many fear might be connected to toxic World Trade Center dust released in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, fire officials said Thursday.
It is important to remember that this government told you the air was safe to breath, and let's get Wall Street back up and running.
Lieutenant Howard Bisch-off, 58, and firefighters Robert Leaver, 56, and Daniel Heglund, 58, died within hours of one another Monday.
Their deaths are ‘‘a painful reminder that 13 years later we continue to pay a terrible price for the department’s heroic efforts,’’ Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said in a prepared statement.
While the rest of us pay for it in other ways -- like a world based on lies.
Thousands of people who aided in the rescue and recovery effort were diagnosed with respiratory ailments and other health problems in the years after the attacks. Cancer, though, remains the biggest fear for people exposed to the gritty soot at the site.
Hundreds of first responders have gotten cancer in the 13 years since the attacks, but doctors and researchers are still uncertain whether there is any link to 9/11. Cancer is the leading cause of death for Americans in their mid-40s to mid-60s, making it hard to tell which deaths, if any, might be related. Most medical studies have not found evidence of a substantial surge in cancer rates, though researchers have spotted some worrisome trends.
Don't know this, sure of fart mist.
It will be like with the veterans: they won;t admit anything until most are dead, and thus won't have to compensate.
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And at the end of the day all they got was chump change.
