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To: Jagfan who wrote (180181)	9/12/2001 11:27:15 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Cops, Firemen Given Last Rites The New York police and firemen were real heroes who knew the risk of staying in the area of the buildings. The Port Authority source said fire and police officials put out an urgent call for Catholic priests, and several responded. Fire Department officials asked the Catholic priests to give firefighters and police entering or in close proximity to the buildings general absolution and the Last Rites, a sacrament Catholics accept before anticipating death. The priest told NewsMax's source that the police and firemen clearly understood their deaths were imminent as they continued their heroic rescue efforts. Neil D. Levin, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the World Trade Center, is believed dead, a source close to the agency told NewsMax.com. The source, intimately familiar with the complex and its operations, told NewsMax.com the following: Port Authority officials believe the casualty count will likely hit 20,000 and possibly more – just from persons working in the office buildings alone. Executives have known for some time after the attack of 1993 that engineers believed that if one building collapsed, the other tower would likely collapse. Still, emergency officials first told occupants of the second tower to be remain in their offices and not to evacuate. Thousands of additional deaths are expected. Perhaps more than 10,000 casualties may be found in the large underground mall that connects the buildings of the World Trade Center. The mall reportedly can easily handle more than 50,000 individuals at rush hour. The mall hits these peak numbers as commuters from PATH trains from New Jersey and various New York subway lines (A and E) stop at the Trade Center. Don’t expect speedy results on the casualty count. The bombing of 1993 – which only destroyed several floors of one tower - took more than six months to clear. newsmax.com