By BBC News The number of people with medical problems linked to the 9/11 attacks on New York has risen to at least 15,000. The figure, put together for the BBC, counts those ...
Copyright 2006 The New York Sun, One SL, LLC All Rights Reserved Editor's Note: This is just the tip of the iceberg. EMS providers are also deeply affected. The buildings were ...
Copyright 2006 Richmond Newspapers, Inc. All Rights Reserved By MICHAEL MARTZ Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hurricane season is near, but a storm already is ...
By Inside OSHA A leader of the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program is advocating a nationwide version of the plan that could be used for any declared disaster. David ...
They are the steady voices on the other side of the line, but today, 911 dispatchers, as well as victims' families, may be forced to recall the day when two hijacked airliners ...
Copyright 2006 The Times-Picayune Publishing Company Military should be first responders in national disaster, senator says By BRUCE HAMILTON Times-Picayune (New Orleans) The ...
If the disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Katrina proved one thing to Mayor Daley, it's that "the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing." The mayor wants to avoid that ...
By ERIKA MARTINEZ and ANDY GELLER New York Post NEW YORK CITY — A selfless Bronx paramedic has become the third EMT to die from a Ground Zero illness in the last 12 months. Deborah ...
Copyright 2006 Lloyd's List International All Rights Reserved Outcome 'vindicates the Bonn agreement which encourages use of national assets to assist other coastal states' By JACK ...
By GEOFF EARLE New York Post WASHINGTON, D.C. — Brave cops and firefighters who are still suffering from the health effects of working at Ground Zero after 9/11 can get treatment ...
The Associated Press By AMY WESTFELDT NEW YORK — Families of people killed in the World Trade Center attack demanded Monday that officials redesign the memorial, saying the current ...
Four years after Sept. 11 exposed serious flaws in how Americans respond to terrorist attacks, simulated hijackings in Boston revealed our first responders are still struggling ...