Reply #16: everyone should know our city REFUSED TO ALLOW THE DONATION OR USE OF SERIOUS MASKS...

[bettyellen]

because they were afraid people would be frightened off. those who worked on that pile knows every major company in the USA was offering gifts of whatever was needed during the cleanup. people asked where are the serious masks? but the powers that be did not want the concern over air quality that might come along with actually protecting the firemen, police officers that breathe that stuff in for more than four months. they allowed those heroes to be guinea pigs.