CBS News reported that the number of police officers killed by 9/11-related illnesses now outnumber the 60 killed in the original attacks.
The names of 20 officers have been added to the on the New York State Police Officers’ Memorial in Albany, including 13 who died from cancers attributed to rescue and recovery work at the fallen World Trade Center (WTC) towers in Manhattan.
New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver addressed hundreds of police, relatives, and officials who gathered for the annual remembrance ceremony Tuesday at the memorial, and noted the toxic smoke that blanketed Lower Manhattan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
More than a thousand responders who worked in the recovery efforts at Ground Zero have gotten cancer, and a Mount Sinai medical study founda higher cancer rate among 9/11 responders than among people not exposed to the toxins. TheJames Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act, created to help those affected by the work, now includes a rule covering various types of cancer under the program, and theadministrator of the World Trade Center Health Programhas proposed expanding the list of covered WTC-related health conditions.
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