Search, Recovery Efforts Are Curbed at Pentagon
A week after a Boeing 757 jumbo jet slammed into the Pentagon, officials scaled back the search-and-recovery effort.
“As the debris is removed, there’s less room for people to work efficiently,” said Arlington County Fire Chief Ed Plaugher. The huge building that houses headquarters of the U.S. armed forces is in Arlington, Va., a Washington suburb.
About 150 civilian rescue workers headed home to nearby Fairfax County, Va., and Montgomery County, Md., as construction equipment lifted huge chunks of concrete and steel from the dwindling three-story-high debris pile.
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