A fireman calls for 10 more rescue workersU.S NAVY PHOTO, JOURNALIST 1ST CLASS PRESTON KERES
Ten years after the twin towers collapsed, firefighters, construction workers, and people who lived in lower Manhattan continue to face a number of health problems, due largely to exposure to airborne particles released following the attacks on September 11, 2001.
The disaster became an unprecedented public health emergency and several state and local agencies have been keeping tabs on tens of thousands of people in Lower Manhattan who were exposed to the dust cloud.
When the towers collapsed, they released a dust cloud made of 1.2 million pounds of concrete, gypsum, molten electronics, and asbestos particles, as well as burning jet fuel, and other materials, said William Rom, a pulmonologist at New York University Langone Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital, who has studied some of ...
