Vets help to rebuild World Trade Center
By Gregg Zoroya - USA Today
Posted : Tuesday Aug 9, 2011 7:58:38 EDT
NEW YORK — The battered desert combat boots that iron worker Richard Farrell Mohamed wears on the job at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center are not the usual footwear here.
Mohamed, 28 — who grew up a tough kid of Egyptian, Russian and Irish descent from Rockaway, N.Y. — wore the boots when he went to war in Iraq after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
On that clear day, he watched the Twin Towers fall on television while he was in English class at the Lindenhurst High School Alternative Learning Center in Long Island. On this day nearly a decade later, he was helping to rebuild what al-Qaida destroyed in an act he says determined the course of his life.
“You grow up here; 9/11 happens. You join (the National Guard). You go to war.; you come home. And then you’re rebuilding,” he says. “You’re like a full part of this whole thing.”
About a thousand workers are building five office buildings on the World Trade Center site — including the 1,776-foot centerpiece, WTC 1. For some, the job has a particularly special meaning. Labor officials estimate that a few dozen or more military combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, like Mohamed, are on construction crews working at the site.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Firefighter's stolen 9/11 pins replaced with help from Tampa congresswoman
Firefighter's stolen 9/11 pins replaced with help from Tampa congresswoman
By Rebecca Catalanello, Times Staff Writer
Posted: Sep 10, 2009 10:25 AM
TAMPA — The local family of a firefighter who died at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, has gotten good news.
Two 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor pins stolen from the family six months ago have been replaced with new ones, thanks to the help of a local congresswoman.
In March, Anne Muldowney, mother of New York firefighter Richie Muldowney, returned to her Tampa apartment to find her sliding glass door had been pried open and several valuables gone, including items from the jewelry box in her bedroom.
Among the stolen items: two 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor pins bestowed on the family by U.S. Congress four years after the terrorist attacks.
Though deputies arrested two people in connection with the break-in, law enforcement has not been able to find the missing pins.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor said Castor saw media coverage of the stolen pins and decided to reach out to the Department of Justice to see if they might be replaced.
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Firefighters stolen 9 11 pins replaced
By Rebecca Catalanello, Times Staff Writer
Posted: Sep 10, 2009 10:25 AM
TAMPA — The local family of a firefighter who died at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, has gotten good news.
Two 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor pins stolen from the family six months ago have been replaced with new ones, thanks to the help of a local congresswoman.
In March, Anne Muldowney, mother of New York firefighter Richie Muldowney, returned to her Tampa apartment to find her sliding glass door had been pried open and several valuables gone, including items from the jewelry box in her bedroom.
Among the stolen items: two 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor pins bestowed on the family by U.S. Congress four years after the terrorist attacks.
Though deputies arrested two people in connection with the break-in, law enforcement has not been able to find the missing pins.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor said Castor saw media coverage of the stolen pins and decided to reach out to the Department of Justice to see if they might be replaced.
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Firefighters stolen 9 11 pins replaced
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Asthma, PTSD still linger for NYC 9/11 survivors
Asthma, PTSD still linger for NYC 9/11 survivors
By DEEPTI HAJELA (AP) – 2 hours ago
NEW YORK — People who were heavily exposed to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center still had elevated risks of developing post-traumatic stress disorder even five years later, according to a study released Tuesday by the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
The study contained better news about asthma. While those who developed respiratory symptoms soon after the attacks were still being diagnosed with asthma some years later, rates among people who first showed symptoms after 2003 were consistent with normal asthma rates.
"What this study shows fairly thoroughly, there was a very strong association between the intense exposure" on Sept. 11 and the days immediately following, in terms of developing asthma, said Lorna Thorpe, deputy commissioner for epidemiology and a co-author of the study.
"There were lingering effects, but those lingering effects have ameliorated."
The study, based on data from a public health registry that tracks the health effects of Sept. 11, found elevated levels of post-traumatic stress disorder among the more than 46,000 people who were surveyed in 2006-2007.
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Asthma, PTSD still linger for NYC 9/11 survivors
By DEEPTI HAJELA (AP) – 2 hours ago
NEW YORK — People who were heavily exposed to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center still had elevated risks of developing post-traumatic stress disorder even five years later, according to a study released Tuesday by the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
The study contained better news about asthma. While those who developed respiratory symptoms soon after the attacks were still being diagnosed with asthma some years later, rates among people who first showed symptoms after 2003 were consistent with normal asthma rates.
"What this study shows fairly thoroughly, there was a very strong association between the intense exposure" on Sept. 11 and the days immediately following, in terms of developing asthma, said Lorna Thorpe, deputy commissioner for epidemiology and a co-author of the study.
"There were lingering effects, but those lingering effects have ameliorated."
The study, based on data from a public health registry that tracks the health effects of Sept. 11, found elevated levels of post-traumatic stress disorder among the more than 46,000 people who were surveyed in 2006-2007.
Rescue and recovery workers had the highest rates of new asthma diagnoses, and their risk was even higher if they were at the World Trade Center site on 9/11 itself or worked there for longer than 90 days. People who had to deal with heavy layers of dust in their homes or offices also had a higher risk of developing asthma.
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
NY Toxic Tower Reminders of 9-11 Failures
Fire at WTC building exposes government lapses
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 17, 2008
Filed at 3:03 p.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- Every two weeks, firefighters ascend a condemned, black-shrouded skyscraper, checking carefully marked exit signs, a rebuilt water supply system and wide-open corridors. They wear protective suits on floors still contaminated by toxic dust from the World Trade Center.
A year ago, more than 100 firefighters ran into the partially demolished building during a fire and had trouble finding their way out. Thick, plastic sheets meant to contain asbestos on some floors also held in smoke. Two firefighters died on the building's 14th floor when their oxygen supply ran out.
The Aug. 18, 2007, fire at the former Deutsche Bank tower across a street from ground zero exposed the incompetence of multiple government agencies assigned to near-daily inspections of the building, which was being dismantled. It also unmasked a questionable subcontractor and the Fire Department's failure to point out dozens of hazards -- including the cutting of a pipe meant to supply water to fire hoses -- before the blaze.
''The community had been raising red flags for months and sometimes years'' about the toxic tower, said environmental activist Kimberly Flynn. ''It's a mystery to us how you can have the number of inspectors that ... were practically living in that building and have that level of disaster.''
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 17, 2008
Filed at 3:03 p.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- Every two weeks, firefighters ascend a condemned, black-shrouded skyscraper, checking carefully marked exit signs, a rebuilt water supply system and wide-open corridors. They wear protective suits on floors still contaminated by toxic dust from the World Trade Center.
A year ago, more than 100 firefighters ran into the partially demolished building during a fire and had trouble finding their way out. Thick, plastic sheets meant to contain asbestos on some floors also held in smoke. Two firefighters died on the building's 14th floor when their oxygen supply ran out.
The Aug. 18, 2007, fire at the former Deutsche Bank tower across a street from ground zero exposed the incompetence of multiple government agencies assigned to near-daily inspections of the building, which was being dismantled. It also unmasked a questionable subcontractor and the Fire Department's failure to point out dozens of hazards -- including the cutting of a pipe meant to supply water to fire hoses -- before the blaze.
''The community had been raising red flags for months and sometimes years'' about the toxic tower, said environmental activist Kimberly Flynn. ''It's a mystery to us how you can have the number of inspectors that ... were practically living in that building and have that level of disaster.''
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