Within 7 Months, 3 Sept. 11 Workers Die

[louis-t]

Remember? Bush changed the info on EPA report on air quality after the WTC fell. This is only the beginning.


NEW YORK (AP) -- James Zadroga spent 16 hours a day toiling in the World Trade Center ruins for a month, breathing in debris-choked air. Timothy Keller said he coughed up bits of gravel from his lungs after the towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001. Felix Hernandez spent days at the site helping to search for victims.


All three men died in the past seven months of what their families and colleagues say were persistent respiratory illnesses directly caused by their work at ground zero.

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"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Worby said. "Many, many more people are going to die from the aftermath of the toxicity."


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ATTACKS_DYING_WORKERS?SITE=MIDTF&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-01-17-14-31-56

[sabra]

1. and the truth will set you free....

reco'd

[melody]

2. These bastards don't care

They would send every one of us to an early grave and STILL not feel an ounce of remorse.

These good people gave everything on September 11th. Shrub put on a hard hat and suddenly he was President Jesus to his cretin masses.

[Gunit_Sangh]

3. re: they don't care

Well ... at least they got Wall Street up and running in record time. Now THAT's important

</snark>

[madaboutharry]

4. Christy Todd Whitman was on TV

within days declaring "The air is safe." I remember looking at the television in disbelief. A family of one of the workers who recently died has said that he had not only debris and toxins from the building, but also human bone, in his lungs.

[mom cat]

10. I did not see HER working 16 hour days at ground zero.

[rocktivity]

5. I moved the weekend before 9/11

from downtown Jersey City, across the Hudson River from the WTC. My co-workers at the time who also lived there were unable to get home for three days. Nearly a month later, I got to ask my former landlord how things were going. She said, "Fine--except for the smell."

When a talking head on one of the cable shows was asked about Bush's changing the EPA report, he spun it as being for city's good--we couldn't take the additional trauma of learning that the air would be unbreathable for a while yet.

So now the WTC laborers have started dying off, to be followed by the people who returned to their homes and their jobs prematurely. Like those civilians in Pakistan who had to be bombed in order to catch a terror suspect, I guess they're going to be collateral damage, too.

On edit: I see that the nickname of the Detroit Free Press is "The Freep," LOL! But it is it really?

:headbang:
rocknation

[louis-t]

23. Yeah, sorry, creeps me out, too.

[NYC]

26. You could tell by the smell of the air that it wasn't meant

to be breathed.

[frylock]

6. i'm sure it's all just a big coincidence..

just like everything else associated with that magical day.

[UpInArms]

7. W. House Molded EPA's 9/11 Reports

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/09/national/main567489.shtml

(CBS/AP) The Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog says White House officials pressured the agency to prematurely assure the public that the air was safe to breathe a week after the World Trade Center collapse.

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An email sent just one day after the attacks, from then-EPA Deputy Administrator Linda Fisher's chief of staff to senior EPA officials, said "all statements to the media should be cleared" first by the National Security Council, the report says.

Approval from the NSC, which is chaired by President Bush and serves as his main forum for discussing national security and foreign policy matters with his senior aides and Cabinet, was arranged through an official with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the report said.

That council, which coordinates federal environmental efforts, in turn "convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones," the inspector general found.

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There is no evidence that airborne asbestos in the World Trade Center area posed a long-term health risk, but no study of the effects on the general public has actually been completed. A Mount Sinai study of rescue and recovery workers found that 78 percent had suffered lung ailments.

...more...

How many will the BFEE murder in their quest for unbridled power?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. I'm absolutely shocked. NOT.

[stickdog]

30. Just this much government malfeasance should have gotten Bush impeached!

Imagine if Clinton had ever killed scores (and almost certainly many hundreds) of US citizens in such a inexcusable cover up with such a flimsy rationale ...

[lavenderdiva]

9. I fully expect to hear the same thing, at some point in the future,

about Katrina evacuees who have since returned to the New Orleans area. They too, are being told the air and water are safe. I shudder to think about what all is floating around in the air, and what has seeped into their water system, which they are now drinking and bathing in.

I have dear friends who have returned to New Orleans, and are trying to rebuild their lives. Meantime, they drink the water, bathe every day, in this water. I am hoping against hope that I won't receive a call some day, that they have contracted something that now threatens their well-being.

[uppityperson]

19. Mold. Toxic black mold and just plain old regular mold.

NO also has petro and other chemicals spread by the flooding, dried and now airborne in dust. The Mississippi coast has miles and miles and miles and miles of moldering houses and debris.

[lavenderdiva]

25. one of my friends, who returned to New Orleans...

has the ubiquitous 'Katrina Cough'. I can only imagine what this might mean, and what it might do to him in the future. Apparently, a lot of people have it in New Orleans.

[kskiska]

11. I remember reading that several of the search dogs died

not long after, too.

[Nay]

14. Yes, they did--in fact, all of them are dead now. Heard it from a NYPD

buddy.

[wordpix2]

24. that's all we need to know, the site was deadly polluted. At the time

I was wondering why the searchers were largely unprotected--some didn't even have on dust masks

[savemefromdumbya]

12. that's where the yellowcake uranium went?

what did they measure?

[KT2000]

13. media aided and abetted

I also recall an article in the NYT where a doctor and reporter laughed at a worker carrying an air cleaner to work with her. They were spinning the WH lies to get the people back to work.

At the time, the physicians association for occupational and environmental medicine - American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) - posted alerts on their web site for physicians to deal with psychological trauma - absolutely NOTHING about toxic exposures.

Toxic exposures = liability

This is a failure on so many levels.

[lovuian]

15. there are going to be many many more... Bush & Guiliani tragedy

and New Yorkers are living in a toxic area to this day...

[barb162]

17. I think you're right.

[JanusAscending]

18. Sad but true,................but...

I REALLY HOPE that the "Hard Hat" on top of the pile of devastation, with the "bullhorn" in his face, took a REALLY DEEP BREATH !!! Now that would be what I call poetic JUSTICE!!! :nuke:

[barb162]

16. everyone should have been wearing respirators thew entire time

[stickdog]

29. The EPA assured them that this was unnecessary. (nt)

[HockeyMom]

20. The stench came to me 3 days and 30 miles away

That those clean up crews, AND people living and working in the immediate area, are getting sick and dying, I have little doubt.

If you didn't smell it, you have no idea how BAD it was. After half an hour, I was coughing, eyes and throat burning, and had to close all my windows. The school districts even kept all the children indoors until it passed.

[Straight Shooter]

21. The air is the reason why bush waited so long to show up at the ruins.

He knew it was dangerous to breathe. He would have been advised not to visit the site for a period of time, and then not to linger.

I'm very saddened that all those magnificent dogs are dead. They were incredibly well-trained and just remarkable assets to the rescue workers, probably made it just a little bit better place to be when you have an animal companion to work with.

[KakistocracyHater]

22. Asbestos is now banned. The reasons why

are because Federal workers who used asbestos in Government shipyards got very ill & died IN THE 1970S. They already know it kills, that's why Bush is working to block class action lawsuits wherever asbestos is involved. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64535-2005Jan10.html Looks like Halliburton didn't get away scot-free, at least. http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1104759369430 Here is Bush trying to say asbestos lawsuits are "clogging up the courts" what a god-awful monster!

[lenegal]

27. This is too sad

I spoke to a woman recently who worked at the WTC clean up site.

She was coughing horribly and explained to me that she had worked at the WTC clean up site.

Her cough was horrendous and I was aghast.

Such lies all around during one of the worst tragedies in this country's history.

And may the fuck on 1600 Pennsylvania have a comeuppance like no other soul on this earth has seen.

[stickdog]

28. Plane Crashes, WR Grace, Deadly Asbestos, WTC Collapse & Wellstone

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=5471&forum=DCForumID43&archive=yes