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14. 4.5B budget OKd by Port Authority PAUL H.B. SHIN NY Daily News The Port Authority approved a $4.5 billion budget for 2004 yesterday that includes an unprecedented $300 million for beefed-up security at area airports, seaports, bridges and tunnels. The agency also green-lighted an additional $500 million for long-term projects aimed specifically at thwarting terrorism in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The PA expects to spend $200 million on security in the current year. The 2004 budget includes $1.8 billion in capital spending - on par with this year, despite lowerthan-expected revenues at toll booths and on PATH trains due to a weak economy and service knocked out since 9/11. However, there are no plans to increase tolls or PATH fares in 2004, said Charles McClafferty, the agency's chief financial guru, who called the budget "fiscally sound, yet austere." This was the first time in eight years that the PA - an agency run jointly by New York and New Jersey - approved its annual spending plan on time. PA officials said the agency's new chairman, Anthony Coscia, appointed in April, pushed hard to get the budget in on time. "The sooner we get our own financial house in order... the better chance we have of being able to deal with uncertainties as they arise," said Coscia, head of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. Agency officials did not want to describe in detail their capital projects aimed at beefing up security, but noted the money will be spent to enhance surveillance, add fencing and barriers and to install detection sensors. Officials also said they did not plan to lay off workers, but would keep a tight lid on the payroll through attrition.

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PA cops say they're ill-equipped to protect

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PA cops say they're ill-equipped to protect By AMY KLEIN Staff Writer The nation may be on a heightened terror alert, but representatives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police union claimed Tuesday that the force does not have enough patrol cars or adequate radio frequencies to protect the area's bridges, tunnels, and airports. The Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, which began negotiating a new contract last month, said a shortage of vehicles has left officers using leased or rented sedans, minivans, and pickup trucks that lack sirens or flashing lights.

But a lack of police cars isn't the only \t Authority's Nunziato claimed. Authority police at tl and tunnels share radio frequencies w collectors, street sweepers, and maintt workers - an arrangement that can lea waiting for a channel to open during ar emergency, he said.

Last month, police responding to a per threatening to jump from the Bayonne tried to radio for help, but their frequen being used by security guards doing re checks, he said. The person, nonethel What's more, additional officers hired in the wake of the Sept. 11 attack have no cars, forcing officers dissuaded from jumping. to ride two or three to a car, said Paul Nunziato, "The snow desk is on the police radio 1 second vice president for the union. about plowing for snow and we have a emergency going on," Nunziato said." "If you had to get to another terrorist attack, you could be in a car with no radio, no siren, and no red light," Nunziato said. "They stepped up Although the police union has been ba

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emerge from debris

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Miracles emerge from debris By Dennis Cauchon and Martha T. Moore The bodies of 2,803 human beings were buried when the World Trade Center crumbled into 3 billion pounds of debris. Miraculously, 20 people survived the collapse, amid steel beams, concrete slabs and other wreckage. They escaped death in the most unlikely of ways and in the most surprising of places. Fourteen people survived inside the remnants of a stairwell at the center of the north tower. One man remembers falling from a 22nd floor stairwell in the north tower and regaining consciousness atop the 12-story-deep pile of rubble at Ground Zero. Two police officers, trapped in debris between the towers, barely survived both collapses. USA TODAY took a comprehensive look at who survived the collapse and why. The newspaper interviewed nine survivors and consulted construction experts and the architectural and engineering plans of the twin towers. The survivors had one thing in common: All ended up near the top of the debris. When the buildings fell — the south tower at 9:59 a.m., the north tower at 10:28 a.m. — the towers compacted into a rubble pile that filled a six-

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By ToddPlitt, USA TODAY Will Jimeno: Trapped in a pocket in the rubble after the collapse of the towers, the rookie cop told his sergeant, "We're going to get out."

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Officers' Sept. 11 Accounts: Catastrophe in the Details

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Officers' Sept. 11 Accounts: Catastrophe in the Deta

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From Warren Street, the view looking down West Broadway after the World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, scattering debris throughout Lower Manhattan. Among those killed were 37 Port Authority police officers By KEVIN FLYNN and JIM DWYER ii"W* he first thing that hit my senses was the quietness of it all," remembered Inspector Timothy I. Morris of the Port Authority Police Department. Seconds after the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, he was in the basement, near the usually bustling PATH Square. "It was surreal. Then as we

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POLICE OFFICER JULIAN C. HAMPI While on the B.Q.E. Expressway: "We overheard a radio transmission from tl Holland Tunnel advising the Central P Desk that the trade center was on fire observed Tower No. 1 had a visible h<

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Living With Life and Death

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Living With Life and Death By Sean Gardiner STAFF WRITER Two years ago yesterday Insp. Larry Fields sent five Port Authority police officers into a burning skyscraper telling them to get as high up as possible. Another officer, because of a heart condition, was ordered to stay in the lobby and help with the evacuation. Fields sent five others officers to get emergency equipment. Strangely, the officer in the lobby and three of the five sent for the equipment died when the World Trade Center's Twin Towers collapsed within 36 minutes of each other on Sept. 11, 2001. The five men sent on the seemingly most dangerous mission all survived. Fields still mentally replays the decisions made that morning, though with decreasing regularity. "I guess they call it survivor's guilt," Fields said yesterday at the ceremony commemorating the

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The man landed just feet away. Despite staggering their runs to avoid bodies, Fields was struck, but not seri injured, by a leg of another person wh from the building. Before sending the five up Stairway C gave them an out - "is everybody OK' He asked Pikaard, then 46 and the ok group, if he was "able to do this." "I looked at him and I said, 'Inspector1 have the volunteers,'" said Pikaard, w also at yesterday's ceremony. The five officers reached the 24th floo oxygen to several firefighters. They cli few more flights when there was a thu roar and "the whole building shook vie lights blew out and ceiling tiles started down," Pikaard said.

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. Cost-Cutting Peril

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Letters to the Editor September 3, 2003 Cost-Cutting Peril

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I will admit that the Kennedy Airport incident involving three boaters was scary and embarrassing ["Kennedy Breach a Wake-Up Call," News, Aug. 13].

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But I don't think that the Port Authority police are to blame for this incident. Since 9/11, Port Authority police have been ordered to work 12hour tours, to come in on days off and to skip vacations so we could adequately provide the increased levels of security. We have performed increased duties with unparalleled excellence and dedication until this June. The federal Omnibus Budget Bill of 2003 has a clause allowing the Transportation and Security Administration to no longer require — as of June 1 — an armed law enforcement officer at every airport security checkpoint in operation. It seems that the majority of politicians in the country felt it was more prudent to save money than to provide increased security. The Port Authority also

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The Port Authority police do their jobs w excellence, pride and dedication. With tl anniversary of Sept. 11 just days away, I for safety's sake that they are allowed tc jobs without economic factors taking pri< security. That being said, I would seriously doubt reported, the boaters "passed an emerg vehicle with an officer sleeping inside" d wanderings at the airport. In an unpleas situation, wouldn't a prudent person hav awakened this officer? Thomas Lomonaco Jamaica Editor's note: The writer is a PortAuthoi office and union delegate.

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