"Failure, after failure, after failure … we do not give up, we will not give up. "When you go through something like this, you learn something about yourself," Desire said. He said the painstaking work continues today, 20 years later because the office has failed to identify 1,100 victims. The identification process was the biggest mass casualty case Desire and many others worked on. DeStefano has been a reporter for Newsday since 1986 and covers law enforcement, criminal justice and legal affairs from its New York City offices. The number of people who died in New York City on Sept. Desire told his audience the scientists practically lived in their offices as officials expected an upward of 20,000 casualties. The next day, Desire and others from the OCME began weeks and weeks of work as they started to set up case files to handle the thousands of victims. Since he couldn’t get home to Brooklyn, Desire was put up by Secret Service friend Rob Murphy. Police in New Jersey took Desire and his colleagues to a hospital where he was treated for a broken left foot, a concussion and cuts.
Finally, Desire worked his way to a light and ran into two colleagues and they made their way to the Hudson River where they got on a rescue boat to New Jersey.
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