Hi Cal!
Just got on FreeRepublic a couple of minutes ago. Has it been down all morning or is it just me?
My husband went for his yearly certification in "hazardous waste" earlier this month and they discussed this situation. The instructor talked about a toxin produced by the millions upon millions of florescent lights in the Towers and how it's effecting first responders. The diagnosis is a rather large name, but I'll ask him when he gets home tonight.
ALSO DISCUSSED IN THE OSHA MEETING:
The EPA was supposed to be monitoring the air. The interesting thing was that no independent air monitoring companies were allowed to test......(donning my tinfoil hat)
If anyone has any further info on this I'd love a link and I'd love to make a little noise & or trouble about this! Sounds like a coverup.
It was impossible to not know that the air was contaminated.
Further it only rained once in the following month so the air couldn't even be cleaned by rain.
The WTC burned for about one month. The air was constantly filled with smoke from the fires and from the particles that continuously fell from the roof and sides of buildings.
Other than an evacuation I don't see what could have been done.
Just got off the phone with my husband and he said that there are numerous illnesses. Two that I can remember were: Syllacyosys (sp) a black lung type disease and a Mercury poisoning disease due to the mercury in the lights.
Hi Alice, FR was down all day.
I remember threads here about emails, Hillary Clinton and the EPA. There was something up with that whole situation but I don't remember what it was.
I was new to FR then and I didn't know about bookmarking.