If America's Heroes are
Disposable
what does that make the rest of us?
Our Mission
* 9/11 CARE NY is currently seeking our non-profit 501 C3 status to become an organization committed to advocating for appropriate care, support, treatment and financial assistance for First Responders to the attacks on Sept. 11th 2001 who have since developed debilitating illnesses directly due to their exposure to toxic air and debris at ground zero.
* 9/11 CARE NY strives to provide 9/11 First Responders and their families with immediate assistance in navigating clinical trial programs, treatment systems and social services.
**FACT*
After the Attack on America on 9/11, some 40,000 volunteer rescue workers, driven by humanitarian concerns, patriotic enthusiasm and the perceived opportunity to manifest their expertise, skills and training into practice, converged on Manhattan to find survivors.
**FACT
When it became apparent that there were no survivors they stayed to recover the remains of the fallen.In part because of White House efforts to keep Wall Street open for financial trading, they were told that the air in lower Manhattan was safe to breathe.
"The EPA is greatly relieved to have learned that there appears to be no significant levels of asbestos dust in the air in New York City," EPA chief Christie Whitman said Sept. 13, 2001, in a report cleared through Condoleeza Rice, then head of the National Security Council.
**FACT
On October 26, 2001, New York Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez detailed the EPA test findings, stating there were notable quantities of dioxins, PCBs, benzene, lead and chromium as well. EPA officials held a joint press conference with NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani to dismiss his story.
**FACT
NYC Commissioner of Environmental Protection Joel Miele said "for residents and people who are working in the open area that as been created downtown, there is no realistic danger to health."
The Mt. Sinai report, released in September of 2006, states that the air around Ground Zero was a mix of toxic chemicals containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs, including benzene), metals, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), thousands of tons of coarse and fine particulate matter cement dust, glass fibers, asbestos, lead, hydrochloric acid, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides, and polychlorinated dioxins and furans. The high content of pulverized cement made the dust highly caustic (pH 10-11) (Lioy et al. 2002; Landrigan et al. 2004).
How much asbestos and other toxins were released into the air that day?
**FACT
WTC construction was begun before the use of asbestos was banned. Even though the upper floors used a different fire retardant, approximately 400 tons of asbestos fiber were in the buildings on 9/11.
**FACT
In addition to first responders, a further 50,000 residents of lower Manhattan, along with 400,000 people working within two kilometers of the site, were also unprotected from billowing toxins rising from the rubble.
**FACT
As New Yorkers began to fume over reports that authorities downplayed the danger of Ground Zero dust, the White House gave EPA chief Christie Whitman the power to bury embarrassing documents by classifying them secret. "I hereby designate the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to classify information originally as 'Secret,'" states the executive order, which was signed by President Bush on May 6, 2002.
**FACT
In September, 2006, Hillary Clinton proposed an amendment to a measure funding port security so that $5,800 a year for five years could be provided to each person sickened from Ground Zero exposure. Senate Republicans blocked the measure without letting it come up for a vote, stating her measure was "not germane."
Health Problems
**Disturbing Statistics
Five years after Sept. 11, seven out of 10 first responders and workers who toiled at Ground Zero suffer from chronic lung ailments, doctors at Mount Sinai Medical School announced in the largest-ever study of 9/11 health effects. They also expect to find cancer among the study's participants in coming years.
**FACT
As of June, 2006, 283 World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers had been diagnosed with cancer, and 33 of them had died of cancer. David Worby is a lawyer for 8,000 WTC responders suffering from disorders including but not limited to: pulmonary fibrosis, leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's myeloma, and other tumors of the tongue, throat, testicles, breast, bladder, kidney, colon, intestines, and lung. "The odds of that occurring are one in hundreds of millions," he says.
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