The cancer link here seems tenuous at best. He didn’t join the FDNY until 2003, and his work as a ferry operator in 2001 probably gave him less exposure to toxins than tens of thousands of other people.
Then the story and its writer are obnoxious.
I read about this person right after 9/11.
He was able to ferry thousands of workers out of Manhattan.
Sorry if you don’t think this man deserves the thanks he earned.
Do some reading on what the dust and the smoke associated with the WTC contained.It's not at all difficult to make a connection.
Can’t deny there is a link to cancer and the crap in the air during/after 9-11 but the story didn’t seem to be trying to push for it - just a tribute to a man who did good things and died early as have a lot of those who were there.
WTH is his union there for? His union doesn’t provide excellent health insurance? If so, maybe if the union didn’t spent so much money on politicking, there’d be more money for better coverage.
Also, not everyone who worked on the pile and had access to it, was willing to wear personal protection equipment. I wonder if this gentleman was? Because if he didn’t, let that be a lesson. And if he did wear PPE, hopefully someone is making certain that the equipment did its job.