Thee hundred New York City firemen and approximately thirty policemen are missing and believed dead in the World Trade Center catastrophe.
This is the largest number of American emergency service personnel ever killed in a single day in the line of duty. Many of them were inside the World Trade Center towers attempting to control the fires and effect rescues when the building collapsed.
New York City has approximately 28,000 police personnel and 14,000 firemen.
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