Bodies of 5 Port Authority police found
February 11, 2002
NEW YORK -- The remains of five Port Authority police officers, including a chief and the female head of the agency's training academy, were recovered at the World Trade Center site, a spokesman said Sunday.
Chief James Romito, Capt. Kathy Mazza, Lt. Robert Cirri and Officers James Parham and Stephen Huczko were among the 37 Port Authority police officers killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The bodies were discovered together Saturday at the base of 1 World Trade Center, according to Port Authority spokesman Greg Trevor.
All five had rushed from the Port Authority police headquarters and training academy in Jersey City, N.J., to help in the evacuation of the trade center, he said.
"They were some of the finest people that I've ever worked with anywhere," Trevor said. "All five were highly regarded police officers. They helped countless people escape."
Parham, of Jackson Heights, Queens, had been promoted to be an instructor at the training academy before the terrorist attack. Huczko, of Hampton, N.J., was a registered nurse and EMT who belonged to the Port Authority pipe and drum band. Cirri, of Nutley, N.J., worked at the academy.--->
The remains of 14 of the Port Authority police officers killed on Sept. 11 have now been found, Trevor said.
The city's official count of those killed at the World Trade Center stood at 2,843 as of Friday afternoon.
The number includes 712 people whose remains have been identified by the medical examiner. |
