Rescue workers in New York pulled seven more survivors - one police officer and six firefighters - from the wreckage of the collapsed World Trade Center on Wednesday, according to CNN.
Details on the conditions of the victims are unknown, but it believed that the police officer was badly burned.
Late on Tuesday three people, two of whom were police officers, were rescued from the rubble. The survivors were found after making desperate mobile phone calls to Pennsylvania for help when they were unable to reach emergency operators in New York. The Pennsylvania contact, reportedly the sister of one of the trapped, was then able to give sufficient information to rescue workers to locate the victims. “It was a rare positive note to a sad and tragic day,” said a local emergency services official.
Throughout Tuesday night, rescue workers struggled to reach people in the basements of the collapsed towers. Reports of mobile phone calls placed by victims underneath the wreckage offered some hope of finding survivors.
Fire and police departments lost hundreds when the towers collapsed soon after they rushed to the scene to rescue those victims trapped in the building. “We’ve got over 300 (firefighters) that are missing and we cannot account for,” Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen said. “We believe many of them are gone. We’ll keep looking.”
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