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CNN Live At Daybreak

The Final Stop

Aired January 15, 2002 - 06:57   ET

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CHIEF WILLIAM ALLEE, NEW YORK POLICE (voice-over): We're searching for human remains. We're searching for personal property, photographs, anything of -- that could be important to connect the victims to the family or friends.

But as you can see, the material gets offloaded, gets put on these trucks that stay within this -- within this facility where it becomes processed.

This is the scrapper who's taking this -- all of the metal that's been gone through and it's no longer needed. It's being loaded on cars and will be taken to a scrap yard in New Jersey for recycling.

This activity goes on all day until 1:00 in the morning. It stops from 1:00 to 5:00 for equipment maintenance.

And the stuff that you see coming out on the conveyor belt is stuff that's already been processed. Anything that goes up into those little enclosures, you have a group of detectives, you can see their shadows, they're examining it and they can stop it anytime they want.

This is the area where all of the fire apparatus -- most of the fire apparatus winds up. It's kind of a special place. You can see the condition of the trucks, and these are the people that responded and this is -- this is the vehicles that they came in.

(on camera): And every time you come up here and you look at -- you look at the debris, you look at what happened and you can't help but thinking about the fact that you know how come you survived and someone else didn't? And I think in a lot of cases it was a matter of just turning one way as opposed to turning the other way. It wasn't because of any inherent skills. I think it was just that's the way it was.

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