NoCarrier

The city is denying that they are dying because of the toxic dust. Amazing. They are doing nothing for those who tried to rescue people.


http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/toxiclegacy/index.html

Toxic Legacy: A CLOUD of dust

On a sunny morning in September 2001, more than twenty seven hundred people died violently in events of unimaginable horror.

Another killer was unleashed that day. A slow silent poison that now threatens thousands of lives? the toxic dust and gases created by the disintegrating towers. An enormous compression wave pushed through the streets and into buildings with the force of a hurricane.

Dr. David Prezant, the deputy medical officer of the New York City Fire Department remembers, "This sunny morning was pitch black. The ability to see in front of you was impossible. The ability to breathe was impossible and yet there was complete total silence." The dust swallowed lower Manhattan and spread outward in a giant cloud. As everyone fled, rescue workers raced into the toxic brew.



"Detective James Zadroga was one of the first responders and worked close to five hundred hours at the site protected only by a paper mask. Although he quickly became very ill, the police department applied standard sick leave procedures to his case. His father Joe Zadroga remembers just how ill his son became. "If you'd looked at him you knew he was sick, anybody that looked at him knew he was sick but he would go report to the sick desk, they would say you're not sick go back to work tomorrow. And at first he'd go back to work. But then he got so sick he couldn't walk up the flight of stairs to get into work. He had to take the elevator up to go one flight of stairs."

James Zadroga is one of few workers whose death has been linked to working on 9/11.

James Zadroga couldn't work. He couldn't play with his baby daughter. He couldn't breathe, and it only got worse. In a letter to his father, he revealed that he knew he was dying. "The dead, their deaths were quick and painless, and mine has just begun. I can't breath, my throat is constantly sore, I'm always coughing and headaches and sleepless nights, nightmares, anxiety and visions haunt me everyday. And I'm all alone except for my dearest loved ones. No one cares on the job, they tell me I'm fine, go back to work, but truthfully I haven't felt this bad in my life." James Zadroga died on January 5, 2006, four and half years after he raced into the cloud of dust.

Pathologist Dr. Gerard Breton did the autopsy, "I was immediately struck by the enormous size of his lungs. Zadroga's lungs were three times the normal weight." When Breton looked at the slides of the lung tissue he found out why. The lungs were full of debris. The autopsy slides revealed he had almost no functioning lung tissue. At least eight percent of his lungs were filled with granulomas ? giant cells that form around foreign objects. "So that the person is actually being asphyxiated with his own lung because his lung was being replaced by these foreign body granulomas. When you tell me that the person was helping and cleaning Ground Zero he was exposed to all kind of foreign debris. And I find this in his lung, I have to put them together," says Dr. Breton. "

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It's only going to get worse in the next 5 to 10 years as a lot of them get cancers from it. More people are going to die from the cancer than the actual buildings falling. It's out duty to take care of these people for what they did.

crockett

It's kinda a given that that people were going to start dieing because of the dust that was in the air. You're talking entire buildings that went down with massive dust and smoke clouds.. Who know's what the hell was in that air, but one thing is for sure it wasn't anything good.

It's also pretty typical of this govt to pretend like nothing is wrong.. Look at the first Gulf War Syndrome. Do they even admit that's real yet?

If they admit there is a problem then they have to help pay for it. Much cheaper to ignore it as long as they can.

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NoCarrier

They spent billions and billions in Iraq and they don't give a damn to the "Heroes of 9/11" anymore. That's quite sad.

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crockett

They spent millions in the first Gulf War and they don't give a shit about those soldiers either. They know it's likely DU weapons that caused the gulf war syndrome but you think they are going to admit that?

lol yea right.. The sad part is most govts of this world act the same way.. Business before pleasure. When the people in charge can figure out a way to make a profit buy saving lives and giving them treatments then that's the day they will step up to the plate.

other wise just like always it will only happen once it becomes a big enough political issue.

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pussyluver

No excuse for not helping now, but....

I remember firefighters and rescue personnel doing double shifts and more. They were warned to slow down and get away from the scene for there own well being. They refused and wouldn't hear of it. Call them heroes, they were motivated to save lives and do what they could, but at there own risk in part.

There were also volunteers from around the country that were turned away.

Not trying to say that every cancer case is a result of an over zealous rescue worker. Just something to consider.

NoCarrier

They were never warned about the dangers of the dust. Even the Environmental Protection Agency told them it was safe when they knew it was an extremely dangerous toxic environment.



"EPA adminstrator Christie Todd Whitman assures workers that the air was safe."

"Concerns about the level of toxicity in the air were quickly allayed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Forty-eight hours after the towers' collapsed EPA administrator Christie Todd Whitman spoke to the press from Ground Zero. "Right now we're not getting any elevated levels that indicate concern. We have monitored in Brooklyn, we are monitoring in what within a ten block area, in ten blocks of this area and again levels are all well below any indication of a health risk," she said."

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pocketkangaroo

T minus 3 minutes till some nut pops in to say that this is part of the conspiracy since the towers never fell and everything was just an illusion with pixie dust.

Nookster

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Webby

Sad part crocket is that the DU effects in Iraq will be a lot worse - not just for troops serving there, but is a total fuckup of the area.

Here's a vid report on the 9/11 incident...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=j3BWAD4tGOE

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crockett

Yea Free Will productions has a DVD called Hidden "Wars of Desert Storm" It's mostly about the powers that be and the things that caused the first Gulf war however towards the end of the DVD they get into the DU subject pretty well and show it's effects on not only our own troops but also Iraq and it's civilians.

It's pretty screwed up stuff to think about what they are doing. Then of course 20 or 30 years from now when it's finally showing it's effects in the general public view they will of course pretend they had no clue what DU does.

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betabomb

cleanliness is next to godliness

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