More New York City firefighters will have died from 9/11-related illnesses than those who died that day, according to attorney Michael Barasch and retired FDNYer Richard Alles.
and departments across the nation gathered in the city for"our nation's largest search and rescue operation," according to Alles, while fires smoldered for 100 days."Anybody that was there on the first day, or the ensuing weeks right after, receives maximum exposure because the fires were still burning, the fires burned for 100 days. So in addition to all of this contamination in the air, and the pH of the contaminants that were floating around, is the equivalent of Drano.
Alles has already seen his advocacy pay off. He delivered a lecture highlighting that first responders need to prioritize their health, and an FDNY member was in the audience and ultimately heeded the warning. "Not only was it skin cancer, it was melanoma, the most aggressive form. They had to cut the tip of his finger off. He also had to undergo some chemo because they were concerned that the cancer cells, which can find their way around the body and come out in the lymph node system, and pop out in another organ," Alles said.
"As Jon Stuart always says, ‘access what you are entitled to,’" Barasch said, quoting the comedian and 9/11 first responders advocate."[Government leaders] told us the air was safe to breathe. It wasn't. But then they did the right thing and they created the Zadroga Health and Compensation Act, and now everybody has a chance for free healthcare, take advantage of it.
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