Of those, 113 were admitted to the hospital, most suffering from smoke inhalation. Vincent's Hospital, situated near Ground Zero, saw 681 injured people in the attacks' immediate aftermath, a hospital spokeswoman said. The other four patients could be released as soon as Thursday. Nine of the remaining 14, he says, are still in critical condition and on 'complex life support,' burned on up to 80 percent of their bodies. The first of these victims, Manu Dhingra, 27, who Bessey says was burned over 40 percent of his body, was released Tuesday. 11, flying two into the 110-story Twin Towers in lower Manhattan, another into the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and a fourth, apparently headed for another target in Washington, into an empty field in Pennsylvania.įollowing the New York attacks, 15 severely burned patients were admitted to the Weill Cornell hospital. Having this many, this sick, all at once was a big stress factor for us.'

'We had a dozen or more of these very critically ill patients at once. 'Usually you get a patient with a big, serious burn once every two or three weeks at the height of the season,' he says. Recommendations to lessen these vulnerabilities include retrofitting existing skyscrapers with some additional safety measures, providing improved fire protection for structural elements, and improving the effectiveness of building safety systems.Bessey says the shear number of victims in need of treatment outdoes anything he has seen previously. Despite the expert panel’s preliminary musings on the failure mechanisms responsible for the twin towers’ fall, the definitive cause has yet to be determined.

The huge gray dust clouds that covered lower Manhattan after the collapse were probably formed when the concrete floors were pulverized in the fall. The sprinkler system, which was probably compromised, would have been useless against this kind of fire. The aviation fuel fires burned at a much hotter temperature than the typical contents of an office, which was the type of fire they were designed for. However, the buildings were not designed for the massive explosions or the intense jet fuel fires that came next – “a key design omission.” The towers collapsed after the kerosene fuel fire compromised the integrity of their structural tubes. They stood for an hour or so despite the damage to a major potion of the gravity system. The support structures of both twin towers withstood the initial hits of the two airliners despite the breaching of many levels of framing. The central core, formed of massive vertical steel columns that held most of the building’s weight, contained elevator shafts, stairways and utility spaces. Each twin tower was strongly framed in structural steel. The main structural engineering design criteria for the World Trade Center’s 1,362-foot-tall south tower and 1,368-foot-tall north tower centered on two things: ensuring resistance to the gigantic gravity loads of the buildings themselves as well as to sideways or lateral forces caused by high winds and earthquakes, which can generate huge overturning forces at the bases. One month after the attack on the World Trade Center, a panel of Boston area-based civil and structural engineers convened to discuss how and why the towers came down.

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