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The shot seen around the world: How an amateur photographer captured the ultimate sacrifice of FDNY heroes on 9/1117:49 The lone fire truck racing across the Brooklyn Bridge toward the burning towers has become a defining image of the courage of so many first responders on September 11. The man who took the picture tells Bruce Golding what remains seared in his memory The Climate 100 List: Erin Brockovich on her fight against ‘secretive’ data centres17:49 Ahead of The Independent’s Climate 100 List being published later this month, we celebrate some of the honourees. Erin Brockovich’s work in helping win a $333m environmental lawsuit in the 1990s spawned a hit film starring Julia Roberts – now, Brockovich tells David Callaway, her attention has turned to the burgeoning issue of data centres ‘The whole truck is gone’: 9/11 survivor reflects on the 8 FDNY firehouse brothers he lost17:49 ’All we heard was hundreds of PASS alarms going off underneath us, and we knew what that sound was — and there was nothing we could do about it,’ a Ladder 118 member tells The Independent’s Bruce Golding McDonalds and Burger King turn to novel idea to entice customers: Human workers17:49 Some 80 percent of fast-food customers say they still prefer ordering from a human over AI, one study found A golf ball found in the World Trade Center rubble became a symbol of incomprehensible loss17:49 Standing amid the rubble that was what was left of the World Trade Center hours after the attacks of Set US officials declare an end to record-setting cyclospora outbreak, but its origin is still unknown17:49 U.S. health officials have declared the largest cyclospora food poisoning outbreak in the country's history over |