WTC 6th Anniversary Shirts in Stock

The WTC 6th Anniversary tee shirts as well as the 6th anniversary pins, patches and decals are all now in stock at the store in NYC and online via the web.

The store is also carrying a simple but powerful shirt that urges support for Ground Zero Workers.

It is all on the WTC page...see below.

http://www.nyfirestore.com/wtc-6th-anniversary.html

Mets Visit Ladder 20

I was pleased to see this item in the popular NYC Blog "The Gothamist." I was Santa Claus for five Christmasses at Ladder 20. Our old store used to be next to Ladder 20 on Lafayette Street. Now it is on Greenwich Avenue around the corner from Squad 18.

story and pix below

http://gothamist.com/2007/07/24/david_wright_mo.php

New Fireboats to Pump 50,000 Gallons a Minute

New FDNY Fireboats costing $20 million each are due to arrive in 2009...but in the meantime a 129 footer does the job.

Full story below.

http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/2007/07/24/2007-07-24_fireboat_fleet_proves_an_fdny_savior.html

America's Busiest

Not a suprise... America's busiest firehouse is in New York City. Its FDNY Ladder 26.

Full story below
http://cms.firehouse.com/web/online/News/National-Run-Survey--Busiest-Ladder-Companies-of-2006/46$55704

Only Weeks Remain for 9/11 workers comp claims.

Check here for details http://www.tortdeform.com/archives/2007/05/3_months_remain_for_911related.html

and here

http://www.tortdeform.com/archives/2007/06/bloomberg_names_new_appointee_1.html

Ground Zero Respirators

Newly available documents show an NYC Health official repeatedly asked the federal government to make workers at Ground Zero follow the rules and wear respirators during recovery operations in 2001 and 2002. The request was made at an October 7th, 2001 meeting and called on OSHA to enforce the rules because the contractors "fear" OSHA's ability to issue financial penalties and thus would comply with the rules. OSHA officials decided to play an advisory role because enforcement would have been too time consuming to be effective. At times fewer than 30% of Ground Zero workers were wearing proper respirators.

Draw your own conclusions.

The above was based on a small item in today's NY Times.

None of this applies to the firefighter, police and ems volunteers who worked on the pile and who were in the direct employ of the city.
Nor does it speak to the clouded issue of which, if any, of the owners of the site were in charge of what was happening there.

I have to comment on SICKO.
Michael Moore's new film on the state of American Health is what it is. I loved it. But that's me. What matters for the purposes of this blog is what it had to say about people affected by 9/11 and the aftermath. I for one will never forget the young mother of two, an EMS volunteer who worked on the pile and at Fresh Kills, who cried when she found out that an inhaler which cost $105.00 in the US sold for 15 cents in the third world country (near Florida) she was visiting. I think her words were: "Do you know what that means to a mother on SSI."

UNBELIEVABLE. This is a CDC report issued a year after 9/11.
Read it all here http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm51SPa1.htm

5 YEARS LATER, AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
"NEW YORK - A woman who died of lung disease five months after Sept. 11 was added Wednesday to the medical examiner's list of attack victims, marking the first time the city has officially linked a death to the toxic dust caused by the World Trade Center's collapse." Yahoo News Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Getting it on the record... here is a good summary

http://www.geocities.com/cureworks2/

FDNY Rare Cancer connected to World Trade Center.

Details from the NY Post
Click below....if it doesn't work please copy and paste to the address line in your browser.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082007/news/regionalnews/fdny_thyroid_cancer_shock_regionalnews_ginger_adams_otis_____and_susan_edelman.htm