More 9/11 emergency call tapes found
Investigators looking for part of an emergency call from a New York fire department official killed in the attack on the World Trade Centre discovered eight more recordings of calls and dispatches on two previously overlooked tapes, the department said.
The recordings from September 11, 2001, are in addition to the roughly 130 calls to emergency number 911 released last Friday.
The New York Times reported today that the recordings were discovered yesterday when city investigators were searching for the remainder of a 911 call made by Dennis Devlin, a fire department battalion commander situated in the trade centre’s south tower.
The fire department said that the newly discovered recordings will be released after they are processed by New York City’s law department.
An appeals court ruled last year that the words of the 911 callers should be confidential.
In the calls that identified the callers by name, the court ruled, their family members should have the option of deciding whether to release the information.
The voices of the fire and police operators who heard the calls for help were released after the Times and relatives of September 11 victims sued to get them.
