Posted on 09/10/2002 9:10:04 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:39:54 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
More than half of the New York City Fire Department firefighters who developed what has been dubbed "World Trade Center cough" have not returned to active duty, according to reports out Monday.
In the six months after the World Trade Center attacks, the eponymous ailment
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No, I don't think so. In addition to the substances listed, burning plastics, of which there must have been a great deal, produce things that are bad for you...cyanide, aldehydes, acids....
I think you do these brave people quite a disservice.
Um, one writer in NYC commented on what it was like to pick pieces of human flesh out of her hair when she got home that day. I wouldn't be so quick to judge what happened to those VERY BRAVE FIREFIGHTERS who were actually down at the site for hours and hours on end. FCOL I've had shortness of breath after coming back from a week in NY when there wasn't 2-110 story towers of concrete, steel, fire retardant material and heaven knows what else turning the air into toxic soup. Me thinks you protest too quickly and loudly.
Can the fact that you have been here only 1 day be influencing your opinions? Hmm?
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