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 NEW YORK (AP) - The city planned Wednesday to release more than 1,600 undisclosed Sept. 11 emergency calls — several by rescuers who later were killed — after fire department officials said they discovered the internal dispatches of firefighters who went to rescue people from the burning World Trade Center.
The New York Times and families of Sept. 11 victims had sued the city for access to firefighters' oral histories and 911 calls made from and around the site on the day of the terrorist attacks in 2001.
The fire department said that when it first turned over its emergency calls, officials "misinterpreted instructions they were given on what kinds of calls to copy" and "failed to capture" other 911 calls they knew had to be made public.
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