The Hyatt Skywalk Disaster

In total, 111 people were killed that night at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center Hotel. The collapsed skywalks were finally lifted by a crane at 7.45am, more than 12 hours after the disaster. There were 31 bodies underneath, many of them unrecognizable. A former police officer told Richard A. Serrano, the author of a great book about this disaster called Buried Truths and the Hyatt Skywalks,. They each grabbed a bucket and waited through the water, the scooped up bits of bones, flesh and teeth. 216 additional people were injured, some minor, some life altering, like Sally Firestone, a quadriplegic ever since.