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(New York - WABC, October 9, 2007) - Two New York City fire unions claim the FDNY is trying to cover up facts in the investigation into the fire at the former Deutsche Bank building.
The heads of the Uniformed Firefighters and Fire Officers Associations say top brass at the department told fire chiefs at a meeting last month to stop sending any E-mails about the fire at the Ground Zero skyscraper.
The deadly blaze on August 18 exposed dangerous fire hazards at the contaminated building, which was in the process of being dismantled.
Firefighters union president Steve Cassidy says the department doesn't want the truth about the investigation to come out.
Firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino died battling the blaze. They became trapped in the building and died from cardiac arrest induced by smoke inhalation.
Meanwhile, Eyewitness News has obtained a memo from December 2004, in which a division commander was urged by the captain of the fire house next to the bank building to develop a standard operating procedure for dealing with a fire or hazardous material situation at the contaminated and condemned building.
No such plan apparently was created.
There is now a plan, which was reportedly written days after the fire.
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