Search and Recovery

A member of the National Guard keeps watch near the World Trade Center in the early morning hours.  (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)

Workers are dwarfed by the remains of a World Trade Center tower.  (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)

Silhouetted firefighters watch rescue workers look for survivors.  (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)

Rescue workers search for survivors around the clock at the destruction site.  (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)

Rain pours on a firefighter as he takes a break from rescue work.  (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)

Katheryn Winnick visits a memorial in Union Square.  (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)

Michael King and Julie Forsberg share a moment of silence at a memorial in Union Square.  (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)

Only rubble and pieces of the facade remains where one of the 120-story towers once stood.  (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)

Firefighter Bob Cima and his search dog, Harley, are from Northern California.  (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)

Rescue workers examine the stability of the wreckage.  (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)

A National Guardsman keeps watch over the destruction site as rain begins to fall on Manhattan.  (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)

A steam shovel removes the larger pieces of rubble as workers look for survivors at the site where the World Trade Center buildings stood.  (GARY FRIEDMAN / Los Angeles Times)