A large staging center for volunteers was set up at the Chelsea Piers ice rink and sports center on 11th Avenue. Members of a variety of religious orders wait at the volunteer staging area. Volunteers werer turned away. Very few got into "ground zero," which is considered too dangerous for civilians to enter, due to fire and unstable wreckage. CONTINUE

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