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...planned. Says an upper-level investigator: "We don't put a high credibility" in the talk of a biological, chemical or nuclear attack. And at least for now, the U.S. civil defense seems ready for the worst. In the past few days, sources tell TIME, military leaders have scrambled fighter jets at least a dozen times in a jittery--but thorough--effort to prevent another kamikaze attack...
AIRCRAFT 10 Su-22 fighter-bombers, 5 MiG-21 fighters, 10 transport helicopters and 40 cargo planes...
...Federal money given to each family of a police officer, a fire fighter or an EMT who died in the Trade Center collapse...
Engine 54 sent 15 men to the first report of trouble Tuesday morning. None came back. The 45 fire fighters left behind spent an exhausting week consoling their colleagues' loved ones, digging through the wreckage, hopeful and fearful of finding their brethren. "I don't have words," says 12-year veteran Tom Hogan. "We have no information for the families of our guys. I just consider them missing. Hopefully there'll be a few more miracles today." When their 24-hr. shifts end, they return to the site on their own time. "It's not a 9-to-5 thing...
...volunteered as a self-defense teacher for the blind. The honors and citations didn't mean what they once did, as he watched mentors and proteges die in fires. Still, he loved fire fighting. Last Tuesday his company got the call to go to the World Trade Center. Fire fighter Brandon Gill says someone yelled, "Don't go in there, Paddy!" but Brown called back, "Are you nuts? We've got a job to do!" and rushed up the stairs of the north tower with his men, past the engine companies with their hoses, to look for trapped office workers...