DAILY MAIL
9/11 illness deaths among first responders now nearly equal to the number of firefighters who died on the day of the attack
- The new count, raised to 341 this past week, comes close to the number of New York firefighters who died the day of the tragedy, which is still being felt today
- The city’s fire department added 43 names to Ground Zero’s memorial on September 6 – citing long-term health effects related to the attack as the cause
- The effects of the day continue to be felt – with a still-rising death toll, cancer, and conditions that can be traced back to smoke that then filled the city’s streets
The number of first responders who have died from 9/11-related illnesses is nearly equal to the firefighter death toll associated with the attack itself, it has been revealed.
The new count, raised to 341 this past week, comes close to 343 – the number of New York firefighters who died the day of the tragedy, when many selflessly rushed into the towers on September 11, 2001, before their collapse.
Officially, the casualty count associated with the attacks is numbered at 2,996 – including 2,977 victims and 19 hijackers who committed suicide by crashing planes into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and an unpopulated field in Pennsylvania.
Thousands more were injured, and New York bore the brunt of the death toll – with an estimated 1,600 victims in the North Tower and another thousand in the South.
Still, long after the last embers were put out and the dust wrought by the disaster settled, the effects continue to be felt – with a still-rising death toll, cancer diagnoses and conditions that can be traced back to smoke that filled the city’s streets that day…
