31.  Compounding the tragedy was the suspicion that scores of emergency workers who rushed to the World Trade Center were crushed when the towers collapsed.

32.  Corporations no longer salute emergency workers in newspaper and TV ads.

33.  Crews of emergency workers struggled under dark skies to contain the rogue waters, but were often deterred by powerful streams carving new riverbeds.

34.  Concrete aid, like donating blood, sheltering neighbors and assisting overburdened emergency workers, will give shape and meaning to feelings of compassion.

35.  Dealing with stress, of course, is nothing new for emergency workers.

36.  Despite media praises of the high-tech gadget, emergency workers later stated the helicopter evacuation could have been avoided had the climbing party used basic mountaineering technique.

37.  Dozens of emergency workers faced horrors that day and have had to deal with the experience ever since.

38.  Doused by heavy rain, many blindly followed the wails of injured neighbors and then used cellular telephones to summon emergency workers.

39.  Dozens of emergency workers were on the scene late into the night, working in shifts to search through the rubble.

40.  Doctors examined Scottland, then had emergency medical workers wheel him on a stretcher into a cramped elevator and into a waiting ambulance.