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Others, such as the John J. Harvey, provided supplies and water, which became urgently needed after the Towers' collapse severed downtown water mains. [14] The Coast Guard Auxiliary helped lead a massive maritime evacuation with estimates of the number of people evacuated by water from Lower Manhattan that day in the eight-hour period following ...
Residential building: 34 dead, 40 injured 1971: 2000 Commonwealth Avenue collapse: Boston, Massachusetts, US: Condominium building under construction: 4 dead, 30 injured 1971: South Bridge Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany: Bridge under construction: 13 dead, 13 injured 1971: 1971 Certej dam failure: Certeju de Sus, Hunedoara County ...
Many of the surrounding buildings were also either damaged or destroyed as the towers fell. 5 World Trade Center endured a large fire and a partial collapse of its steel structure and was torn down. Other buildings destroyed include 3 World Trade Center, 4 World Trade Center, 6 World Trade Center, and St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.
Authorities have identified the woman who burned to death after she was set on fire inside a New York City subway train as 57-year-old Debrina Kawam.
One passenger crawled back to their seat during the incident. Phones, jackets and water bottles “floated” around passengers and “two hard hits” occurred during the incident.
E833 Fall on stairs or ladders in water transport; E834 Other fall from one level to another in water transport; E835 Other and unspecified fall in water transport; E836 Machinery accident in water transport; E837 Explosion fire or burning in watercraft; E838 Other and unspecified water transport accident
"Almost all the buildings at the coast itself, they're subsiding," Falk Amelung, a geophysicist at the University of Miami and the study's senior author, told the Miami Herald. "It's a lot."
Five technicians killed: two on the hoist riding the FM antenna up and three on the tower. Determined insufficient sized bolts on the makeshift lifting lug extension failed. The falling debris severed one of the tower's guy wires which caused the tower to whip back and forth and collapse. KANU tower, Lawrence, KS: December 11, 1982