Mayor: Don't expect to recover all bodies

With about 300 firefighters missing, the Fire Department has been particularly hard hit and Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen has scheduled promotions of 160 firefighters Sunday from lieutenants to deputy and assistant chief.

Although a normally joyous occasion, he said this time, "I am sure it will be the most somber promotion ceremony we've had."

Said the commissioner, "We have to be ready tomorrow for anything else

that might happen in this city so I will need the people and the leadership

to do that."

The mayor said Wall Street trading and the Staten Island Ferry would

resume Monday and a ferry service launched between Brooklyn and Manhattan

for the first time since the Brooklyn Bridge was built in 1883.

He called on the Medical Examiner, Dr. Michael Hirsch, a slightly-built

man who was injured in the collapse of the Twin Towers Tuesday when hit by

debris, to explain the DNA testing program.

"It's a large effort of the New York Police Department, the New York State

police lab and the medical examiner's office," said Hirsch. Some private

labs also would be involved.

He asked relatives and friends of the missing to provide toothbrushes,

hairbrushes or used undergarments, for "direct comparison" of the victims to

members of the Police Department.

Police would then bring the labeled specimens to the morgue at East 30th

Street and First Avenue, between Bellevue and NYU hospitals where the

examination process is to begin.

For those unable to supply such valuable specimens, the second line would

be specimens from close relatives, preferably children, parents or

grandparents and that line of examination would be "a version of paternity

testing." If children, a sample of the spouse's DNA also would be preferred.

He said the results of each medical test could come back in "four or five

days."

Meanwhile, Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik said among the 159 bodies

taken from the wreckage 24 were firefighters, three Port Authority police

officers, two Emergency Medical Service personnel and one New Jersey

firefighter. Only 99 of the dead were identified. Several hundred "body

parts" were found.

Giuliani said 22,008 tons of debris had been removed from the scene in

2,047 truckloads.

The towers were struck Tuesday by jetliners, erupted in flames and

collapsed into a seven-story heap of concrete and steel, wiring, office

furniture and victims.

Kerik said looting was becoming more of a problem in and around the

disaster site, including a Brooks Brothers store. There were several arrests

for burglary, and among those arrested was a man wearing a stolen fireman's

jacket.

"Anti-crime and street crime (plainclothes) units are being assigned to

the area," Kerik said, explaining that some people managed to get in the

restricted area and were walking around like tourists."

He warned, "If you are not working at the site, you will be arrested for

trespassing."

"We have enough volunteers," said Deputy Mayor Joseph Lhotta, a comment

echoed by Kerik. "As much as we appreciate the volunteers, we don't need any

more," said the police commissioner, who added that those police from out of

the city already in New York could be used in traffic direction or securing

sites away from "ground zero."

Giuliani went to the funerals of William Feehan, 71, the Fire Department's

second highest official and Peter Ganci, 54, the highest-ranking fire

officer killed.

Friday night he attended a prayer service for the Rev Mychal Judge, 68, a Fire Department chaplain killed in the collapse. The Franciscan priest was a close friend of the mayor and Fire Department brass who were killed.

Giuliani himself left the men only 10-15 minutes before the collapse that

crushed them and was trapped by the rubble a few minutes later in a nearby

building in which he was attending a meeting.

There are about 300 missing firefighters from a department of 11,000 -- equal to all the firefighters lost in the line of duty in the lifetime of the service.

Kerik said 23 police officers were missing.