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Call for hearings on victims' remains

Emergency personnel look for victims and fight fires

Photo credit: Robert Mecea | Emergency personnel look for victims and fight fires in the ruins of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, after a terrorist attack leveled both buildings in Manhattan.

Families of 9/11 victims yesterday called for congressional hearings to establish federal protocols for handling human remains after disasters such as the terror acts that took thousands of lives in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

At a Manhattan news conference near the Sept. 11 memorial, family members spoke days after Pentagon officials revealed that partial remains of several victims...

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