Volume 48 - No. 37
By Friedrich Gomez
DEDICATION: This article is dedicated to all our readers who have stopped me in recent weeks on the sidewalks, supermarkets, etc., all asking me to write about the heroic Search and Rescue (SAR) dogs that silently suffered, served, and saved human lives at Ground Zero during our nation’s most tragic terrorist attack at New York’s World Trade Center. This article is also dedicated to all our brothers and sisters who perished that fateful day, on September 11, 2001. For they shall never be forgotten. The The Paper Paper -- 760.747.7119 760.747.7119
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I have never written about these heroic Search and Rescue dogs before but now, thanks to our readership story-suggestions during this month of September -- I have now.
OVERVIEW RECAP OF 9/11 CIVILIAN FATALITIES. Over 2,600 people who were either in the World Trade Center or on the ground at the time the Twin Towers collapsed, perished. 9/11 FIRST-RESPONDERS FATALITIES. Well over 400 emergency workers in New York City would die. This would include
343 firefighters, 71 law enforcement officers, 8 emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics, one member of the FBI and one U. S. Secret Service agent, and a chaplain. LITTLE KNOWN FACT: 9/11 DEATHS CONTINUED TO MOUNT IN THE AFTERMATH. Unknown to most of the general public, 9/11 fatalities continued to grow years after the deadly occurrence. In 2007, the New York City medical examiner’s office began to add people who died of illnesses caused by exposure to dust and other contaminants from the Twin
Towers scenario. Some victims later died of chronic lung cancer, raising the overall number of fatalities from the collapsed site to 2,753. Other post 9/11 victims did not all perish but continued to suffer various maladies. Over 33,000 police officers, firefighters, responders and community members have since been treated for injuries, sickness, respiratory conditions, mental health problems such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), deep depression, gastrointestinal conditions and at least 4,166 cases of cancer. In 2015 Congress signed into law a permanent healthcare
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