FDNY union furious over sudden discovery of 68 boxes of 9/11 health data
The Big Apple firefighter’s union is steaming mad over the sudden discovery of 68 boxes of Ground Zero health data following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks — files they were told never existed.
The recently surfaced boxes contain thousands of pages of information on possible toxins at the Lower Manhattan site that union members said could be used to add new ailments to the list of covered 9/11-related illnesses.
Some 343 FDNY firefighters lost their lives at the World Trade Center site on 9/11 with hundreds more having lost their lives since from health-related maladies.
“They should have used that evidence and those tests to prepare for the long term health care of the people that were down there,” Andrew Ansbro, president of the FDNY United Firefighters Association said at a press conference Monday. “The decision they made was to just hide it.
“Here we are, 24 years later, we know many people got sick,” Ansbro added. “We’re still trying to get more diseases added to the World Trade Center register. We’re hoping that there’s going to be documents in there that help make our case on new diseases.”
The FDNY and advocates for other first-responders have been battling for years to get more data on possible toxins at the Lower Manhattan site, which has killed about 400 people since the attacks.
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