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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- By Michele McPhee Daily News Police Bureau ChiefMay 25, 2004 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/196776p-169946c.html For Bob Shore and Victor DiPierro, the tragic story of Sept. 11, 2001, didn't end that day. They were among the innumerable heroes who spent weeks and months looking for remains - only to develop life-threatening cancer. The Daily News revealed yesterday that many cops and firefighters assigned to Ground Zero are developing serious illnesses, including cancer. And though no direct link between Ground Zero and cancer has yet been established, more victims came forward yesterday to tell their stories. DiPierro, a cop in the 46th Precinct, worked at Ground Zero all night on Sept. 11 and every day for months afterward. "When I saw the plane hit, I drove right to the precinct," DiPierro told The News yesterday. He was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in March, and underwent surgery on April 5 to have two tumors removed. "I don't regret it. What we did is nothing," said DiPierro, 36, a nine-year veteran who is on sick leave while undergoing radiation treatment. "I almost feel guilty now getting sick and saying it's because of that day. I knew the air just wasn't right then. You could smell it, and it didn't feel right. "But it's not a coincidence that we are all getting sick now. Young, healthy cops and firemen all getting sick a couple years after working down there? There is no way that is a coincidence at all." Shore, a retired correction officer, said he worked nearly nonstop for three weeks at Ground Zero. He has pancreatic cancer, a condition his doctor insists was either caused by or accelerated by the "smoke and chemical gases" in the air those terrible days. Shore, 52, said he volunteered to work in the massive recovery effort. "My wife called me and said my sister-in-law was trapped in the building. I ran right there and stayed for weeks. I came home every night crying from what I saw there." His dark experiences prompted him to retire from the Correction Department eight months after the disaster. By September 2002, Shore became crippled with pains in his rib cage that spread to his spine. Months later, he was told those pains were caused by terminal pancreatic cancer. By April 2003, Shore was having surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center to remove his pancreas, gallbladder and spleen. Two doors down was NYPD Detective Robert Williamson, 43, whose struggle with pancreatic cancer was detailed in The News yesterday. Williamson is one of 1,700 cops and firefighters who filed a notice of claim against the city, saying their illnesses or injuries were related to their work after the 9/11 attacks. Shore is not expected to survive, despite extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments. His doctor, Charles Hesdorffer, insists the deadly blend of noxious gases released by the collapse of the towers either caused or accelerated his condition. "His occupational exposure, albeit as a result of a terrible terrorist act, was the likely cause of his unfortunate disease, which will inevitably lead to his untimely demise," Hesdorffer, an oncologist at Columbia Presbyterian, wrote in a letter to Shore's attorney, Michael Barasch. Hesdorffer testified on behalf of Shore - and nearly a dozen others with grave illnesses - at Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund hearings. Shore's claim is pending. Hesdorffer examined several patients who developed cancer after working at or near Ground Zero. "One or more of these chemicals and these fumes may very well have been the cause of the cancers that these patients developed," he wrote. "In all instances, the cancers developed in young, otherwise healthy individuals with no personal or family histories of cancer." How cases are resolved The recovery efforts at Ground Zero and Fresh Kills landfill resulted in 1,700 notices of claim against the city. Of those, 1,500 led to lawsuits. The vast majority of those plaintiffs eventually dropped their suits to pursue settlements with the federal Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001. Under the terms of the federal fund, anyone who accepts a settlement cannot also file suit. How these legal claims are ultimately resolved has no bearing on a tragic fact: People who helped sift through the remains of Sept. 11, 2001, are developing serious, sometimes fatal, illnesses. Saddest of Words: News Told You So By Juan Gonzalez Daily News May 25, 2004 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/196775p-169949c.html With the city facing heat from cops and firefighters who say they became sick working at Ground Zero or the Fresh Kills landfill, we would do well to remember the warnings. More than two years ago, on Oct. 26, 2001, the Daily News published a front-page story, "Toxic Zone," by this reporter that created a furor in our town. The story began: "Toxic chemicals and metals are being released into the environment around lower Manhattan by the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and by the fires still burning at Ground Zero." It was based on hundreds of pages of environmental tests taken by our own federal government - tests that were not made public until The News obtained them through a Freedom of Information Act request by the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project. Those tests showed that, in addition to asbestos, dangerous substances like benzene, heavy metals, dioxins and PCBs were being released into the environment, sometimes at amounts far exceeding federal safety levels. The city's political and business leaders immediately tried to kill the messenger. William Muszynski, then a regional administrator at the federal Environmental Protection Agency, called it "one of the worst kind [of stories] you can write." There were only a few "spikes" of high readings for some contaminants - nothing to worry about, Muszynski said. Kathryn Wylde, head of the Partnership for New York City, accused me in a letter to The News of engaging in "a sick Halloween prank" that only scared the residents and workers of downtown Manhattan. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Health Commissioner Neal Cohen also tried to knock down the story. "The short-term irritation of eyes, nose and throat that some people ... may feel does not translate into significant or any long-term health effects," Cohen said. Former EPA administrator Christie Whitman, then the nation's top public health guardian, chimed in with a personal rebuttal that The News published. Our story would make New Yorkers believe "the situation at Ground Zero presents a major environmental health hazard to area residents and employees," Whitman wrote, and "that would be inaccurate." As for any danger to the thousands of workers on the rubble pile, "respirators, when used properly, protect workers from exposure to contaminants," Whitman wrote. Amazingly, the same week The News published our Toxic Zone article, another federal safety agency issued a report blasting officials at Ground Zero because many workers at the site were not using proper respirators and safety equipment. Today, our city is dealing with more than 1,000 firefighters and cops who assert they became sick while working at Ground Zero or the Fresh Kills landfill. Several cops and firefighters have developed cancer, which they believe is connected to their time on The Pile. Tests done of city workers at Ground Zero show many were contaminated with heavy metals like chromium, mercury and arsenic. Most experts say they would normally expect many more years to pass before cancer developed from toxic exposures, but everyone realizes that the combination of toxic exposures at Ground Zero was unprecedented. Earlier this month, a summary report of dozens of scientific studies on Ground Zero pollution was published. The summary begins with these ominous words: "The destruction of the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 caused the largest acute environmental disaster that ever has befallen New York City." The federal government itself has now admitted that the World Trade Center collapse represented the largest dioxin release ever recorded. Another group of scientists has calculated that between 100 and 1,000 tons of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), many of them cancer-causing, were dumped onto lower Manhattan by the burning fires. Giuliani, Cohen, Whitman and Muszynski all are out of office now. The cops, firefighters, recovery workers and downtown residents who believed their assurances are left to cope with the aftermath. Sometimes it takes a while for the facts to come clear. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Bennett Public Affairs Director, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health 275 7th Ave., New York, N.Y. 10001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 212-627-3900 ext. 14 Fax: 212-627-9812 Please visit our website: http://www.nycosh.org. Subscribe to our free biweekly Update on Safety and Health by sending an e-mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NYCOSH is a non-profit provider of occupational safety and health training, advocacy and information (including technical assistance and industrial hygiene consultation) to workers and unions throughout the New York metropolitan area. 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