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Originally Posted by pussyluver
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.
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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."