May 17, 2007
Firemen hurt as pipe falls from WTC deconstruction site
Two firemen at the fire station adjacent to Ground Zero suffered minor injuries this morning when a 15-foot sprinkler pipe fell from the 35th floor of the Deutsche Bank building, which is finally being dismatled more than five years after it was badly damaged in the September 11 terror attacks, according to the Associated Press.
 Demolition work has been suspended at the building, which is located across the street from the firehouse.
Actual deconstruciton of the bank only started in March, following years of debate over how to take it down without contaminating the neighborhood. In recent months, more human bone fragments have been discovered in the building, as well as at other locations in and around the World Trade Center site.
Once the building vacates 130 Liberty St., the site will be converted into Tower 5 of the new World Trade Center complex, Liberty Park, an underground tour bus parking lot and a new Greek Orthodox Church to replace the one destroyed in the attacks.
The fire house, home to Engine 10 and Ladder 10, lost six men on Sept. 11. 2001. The side wall of its station is covered with a 56-foot-long, six-foot-high, 7,000-pound bas-relief mural dedicated to the 343 firefighters killed that day.
(The top picture of the Deutsche Bank building was taken April 1, 2007. The other, from 2006, shows the fire station, with the black netting of the Deutsche Bank building in the background.)
Earlier: Deutsche Bank deconstruction starts at Ground Zero
Memorial honors 343 firemen killed on Sept. 11
May 17, 2007 01:33 PM in Architecture, Downtown, Sightsology
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