Posted on 03/18/2018 5:28:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A New York City firefighter, who heroically aided in the evacuation of hundreds of people in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001 as the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history unfolded, has died.
Thomas Phelan, 45, of Brooklyn, died on Friday, according to the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York. Phelan, family and friends told the New York Daily News, died from cancer linked to the toxic fumes at Ground Zero.
He is one of more than 170 firefighters who have died as a result of an illness related to the attacks at the World Trade Center in 2001, according to the association.
Phelan was working as a Statue of Liberty ferry captain on Sept. 11 when he helped evacuate lower Manhattan & rescue many people to the other side of the river, NYC Fire Wire wrote on Facebook. He brought supplies, rescue workers & was a huge part of the operation.
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Do some reading on what the dust and the smoke associated with the WTC contained.It's not at all difficult to make a connection.
Garbage collectors = unionized NYC employees who do a dirty job for *very* good pay (and benefits).
if post #3 is true, then a whole lot of NYC residents (as of 9/11) are at risk.
May God save him a special grace in heaven.
Firefighters and officers are compensated too. I know officers who make well into the six digits. I know one who made nearly $300K and spends nothing on his child. Hardly a hero.
But, yes, some do heroic things.
Firefighters and officers are compensated too. I know officers who make well into the six digits. I know one who made nearly $300K and spends nothing on his child. Hardly a hero.
But, yes, some do heroic things. But you cannot live without a trash collector or sewage treatment.
Can’t deny there is a link to cancer and the crap in the air during/after 9-11 but the story didn’t seem to be trying to push for it - just a tribute to a man who did good things and died early as have a lot of those who were there.
WTH is his union there for? His union doesn’t provide excellent health insurance? If so, maybe if the union didn’t spent so much money on politicking, there’d be more money for better coverage.
Also, not everyone who worked on the pile and had access to it, was willing to wear personal protection equipment. I wonder if this gentleman was? Because if he didn’t, let that be a lesson. And if he did wear PPE, hopefully someone is making certain that the equipment did its job.
Another Bill Clinton victim.
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