Archive of News (2021)
‘I feel betrayed’: Some 9/11 responders still face major health care obstacles
A company tasked with helping responders and survivors get free medical care has failed to achieve some of its basic aims, patients and staffers say.
Former NYPD officer, MB resident remembers the devastation after 9/11 attacks
The sky was clear and blue. “It was beautiful,” Cruz said. “It went from a beautiful sky and it just changed and flipped.”
Health concerns persist for 9/11 first responders from New England
Among them are 345 men and women from Massachusetts and 104 from New Hampshire. Connecticut, with 621, had the most first responders from New England in the program. Rhode Island, Maine and Vermont had 67, 66 and 44 respectively.
Trade Center Health Program Links Physical and Mental Woes From 9/11
The program is a unique one and is a collaboration between the FDNY, the medical community and the unions that represent the department’s uniform and civilian employees.
Remembering 9/11: Doctors Still Treating First Responders For Mental Health Issues
Michael George reports twenty years after the September 11th attacks, tens of thousands of first responders and survivors and their families are still coping with lasting impacts on their mental health.
Activist whose school was less than a mile from the Twin Towers reveals how classmates were poisoned by toxic air and several have been diagnosed with cancer since the attack
By the time Lila attended her twentieth Stuyvesant reunion, five of her classmates had been diagnosed with lymphoma, while a pupil one year younger than her had already passed away.
9/11 made me and my Stuyvesant classmates sick — and it took years for people to listen
School administrators told us the auditorium was safe despite the carpet and seat upholstery not having been replaced. In mid-2002, some parents sent a piece of that carpet to a lab, which found it was heavily contaminated with asbestos.
Immigrant Sept. 11 Cleanup Crews Seek Residency as a Reward
Hired informally by cleaning companies, they cleared debris, asbestos and dust inside lower Manhattan buildings for months without adequate protective gear. Some are struggling to cope with how the disaster transformed their lives.
20 years later: The long term effects Sept. 11 survivors, responders face
According to WTCHP, 22,000 members have at least one cancer. Over 1,500 members who passed away also had cancer.
9/11′s forgotten first responders
Many city EMS workers with 9/11-related illnesses are still buried under the rubble of bureaucracy, denied World Trade Center disability pensions by the New York City Employees Retirement System, NYCERS.