As Elaine Duch lay on a stretcher Sept. 11 in front of the Millenium Hilton hotel, her flesh smoldering and her dress melted into her skin, a priest knelt by her side and offered to give her last r… ...

"Elaine is definitely special – one in a million." Ms Duch said that one of the things she wanted to do was to take a trip to Atlantic City, the gambling centre on the New Jersey coast. "Paul's ...

NEW YORK — Elaine Duch barely escaped the flaming World Trade Center, but doctors were even more surprised that she survived the four-month battle to save her.Severely burned, the longtime Port ...

Bayonne resident Elaine Duch, a Port Authority employee severely burned during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center talks about her recovery and the way her life has changed in ...

Elaine Duch, who was critically burned in the World Trade Center disaster, meets reporters before her discharge from the hospital Tuesday in New York.

As Elaine Duch lay on a stretcher Sept. 11 in front of the Millennium Hilton hotel, her flesh smoldering and her dress melted into her skin, a priest knelt by her side and offered to give her ...

Elaine Duch, 49, of Bayonne, New Jersey, was brought to Weill Cornell Burn Center in critical condition on September 11 with burns over 77 percent of her body and suffering from severe smoke ...

"I didn't want to die," Elaine Duch, 49, said in a hoarse voice as she left the Weill Cornell Hospital Burn Center, a New York Fire Department cap covering her bandaged head and moisturizer on her ...

Her face bandaged, Elaine Duch, 49, told reporters at Weill Cornell Hospital's Burn Center that she was on the 88th floor of one of the twin towers on Sept. 11 when she was injured.

With her clothes burned to her skin and her hair still smoldering, World Trade Center blast victim Elaine Duch lay down and heard the priest read her the last rites. Nobody gave the 49-year-old adm… ...

NEW YORK (AP) _ A woman who was severely burned at the World Trade Center was released from the hospital Tuesday after four months of treatment, saying ``I want to get back to the way I was.'' ...