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No Regrets From First Responders Suffering Chronic Illness From Ground Zero Toxins; ‘Our City Needed Us’
For Tarquinio and others living with the scars of heroism, it was an instinctive act to help amid unimaginable destruction. They didn’t know, at the time, they would become victims themselves.
20 years after 9/11, toll mounts among responders who faced toxins at ground zero
On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 90,000 emergency responders raced to the front lines of the unfolding tragedy. They were hoping to save lives – thinking little of their own – because they were told they didn’t have to.
Pallone, Sherrill work to expand 9/11 first responder health coverage
With the 20th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center approaching this Saturday, two members of Congress from New Jersey are highlighting their efforts to expand health care funding and coverage for 9/11 first responders.
World Trade Center program offers valuable information for health care professionals
The CDC’s World Trade Center Health Program provides important information for all health care professionals, even those who do not treat anyone directly affected by the 9/11 tragedies, those with direct knowledge of the program said.
‘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.