Reports in theNew York PostandNew York每日新闻examined the tragic legacy of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) response to a 1975 fire at the New York Telephone Company in Manhattan.
Retired FDNY firefighter Danny Noonan, who suffers from leukemia,spoke with thePostabout the number of cancer cases in firefighters who responded to the fire.
“Young healthy men all of a sudden were developing all of these crazy cancers,” Noonan said in the report. “We started sounding the alarm to the city and the department’s hierarchy. There was no response to our alarm that all these firefighters are getting cancer.”
The每日新闻carried an Op-Ed by Perry Berry，这份报纸的退休记者是已故的FDNY消防员迈克尔·贝里（Michael Berry）的遗ow，发动机80。贝里指出，尽管在1975年2月27日发生的大火中没有人死亡，但消防运营的后果是巨大的，而且被忽略了。188金博网网址多少根据佩里的说法，在火灾中工作的699名FDNY成员暴露于非凡的燃烧聚氯乙烯（PVC），氯化氢，氯化乙烯基单体和氯化二恶英。
According to the FDNY, firefighters responded at 12:25 a.m. on the day in question to the 11-story building on Second Avenue and 13th Street. The fire had began in a large cable vault located in the cellar that contained 488 telephone cables, with anywhere from 400 to 2,700 pairs of lines and covered in either lead or polyethylene. According to Remembrance Bulletin issued by the department, the structure served as the main telephone switching center for the Lower East Side, and the fire would go to five alarms, with firefighters operating for a two-day period. It spread through the floors of the building via the many void spaces while burning thousands of miles of wires and cables, releasing toxic smoke.
1975年，没有对消防员进行医学监测，今天的医疗监测计划表明了从这场大火中学到的一些教训。该公告指出，仅在9/11的后面，许多人认为纽约电话公司是纽约市消防局历史上第二大，最昂贵的。这是纽约市的第一次大型PVC大火，标志着没有穿着独立呼吸器（SCBA）的消防员的结束。尽管PVC现在在许多家庭和工作场所很常见，但它会产生剧毒的烟雾。1975年，FDNY没有严格的SCBA政策，但是，Mask Service部门提供了超过1,060个SCBA缸，以及这场大火中的每个备用SCBA。
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