Final steel beam removed from Ground Zero

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(29 May 2002) • • 1. Wide shot pan across ground zero • 2. Close up workers cutting last piece of steel beam with torch • 3. Close up workers writing NYPD on the beam • 4. Wide shot beam which is due to be the last piece of steel cut free on Tuesday • 5. Wide shot ground zero • 6. New steel beam being lowered into place for repair work on subway stations at ground zero • 7. Workers laying cement on repaired subway tunnel • 8. Workers pouring cement on repaired subway tunnel • 9. Earth-mover laying down dirt for workers to search through for human remains and other items • 10. Cross of steel that was found in debris which has been mounted on the site • 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergeant John Gilburn, Port Authority Police Department: • I'm ready. I'll never forget this place, and it'll always be here, it'll always be a river away if I want to come by and spend some quiet time. But it's - again, we've done what we could to recover them, and, I think, in their honour, we need to step into the next arena and begin to do our jobs as they were doing that day. • 12. Various of fire crews and other workers walking behind banner, 'We will not forget' • 13. Flag pole being welded onto stand • 14. Various of applause • 15. Various of beam being cut with torches • 16. People watching • 17. Various of beam being moved • 18. Sailors watching • 19. Huge beam being lifted by crane • 20. Beam lying on the ground, being covered by black sheet • • STORYLINE: • • The last steel beam left standing at the World Trade Center site in New York was cut down on Tuesday and draped in an American flag. • • This was the first of a series of ceremonies marking the end of the eight and a half month clean-up. • • The 30-foot (9-metre) girder survived when the twin towers collapsed into a mountain of one point-eight (M) million tons (1.6 million metric tons) of rubble on September 11. • • For months it was covered by debris, but as the pile shrank the column was revealed, still standing where it was erected when the south tower was built three decades ago. • • During the last few months, workers topped it with a flag and covered the sides with spray-painted messages and photographs of victims. • • Hundreds of construction workers who have laboured at the site watched as the column was severed with a cutting torch. • • On Thursday, the beam will be removed from the site in a procession past an honour guard of police officers and firefighters. • • It will be put into storage and might be used someday in a memorial. • • #beam #GroundZero #WTC • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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