0h 39min, sep 11, 2001 y - recovery workers

Description:

During the nine-month recovery and cleanup operation at the World Trade Center, many thousands of individuals transformed what some called "the pile" – a scene of mass destruction dominated by a vast mountain of tangled steel – into an excavated pit reaching 70 feet below ground. Many who worked on the recovery effort in different ways have shared stories with the Museum about their painstaking search for remains of the missing and the grueling efforts to remove tons of material from the site.