New Canaan: Voices of September 11th will hold its fifth annual charity golf outing on Monday, July 22, 2019, the Westchester Country Club’s West Course in Rye, N.Y.
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June 24, 2019
After previously claiming former Daily Show host Jon Stewart was "all bent out of shape" about the need to reauthorize the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to be changing his tune.
June 24, 2019
A possible link between World Trade Center dust and prostate cancer in first responders has been found by researchers. Exposure to dust at the New York City site after the Sept.
June 24, 2019
Unlimited sick leave for NYC workers who were 9/11 First Responders, S.5890, passed the legislature in the final day of the session.
June 23, 2019
“We will never forget," was the phrase repeated during a ceremony that honored fallen police officers on Staten Island on Sunday. Families of officers who died in the line of duty and from 9/11-related illnesses gathered in front of the 121 Precinct’s Station House in Graniteville on Saundy.
June 23, 2019
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is meeting Tuesday with 9/11 first responders who’ve been pushing him to move aggressively to pass a new funding bill to care for Sept. 11 heroes and survivors, even as yet another of them lies dying.
June 22, 2019
Witnessing the terror attacks on September 11, 2001 affected practically all of us who were alive at that time. But, for some, 9/11 was a far more personal and tragic experience.
June 20, 2019
Recent research has found that emergency responders for the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks are more likely to have prostate cancer and unique genetic expression.
June 19, 2019
A cancer-stricken retired NYPD detective who implored Congress to extend a federal fund for those sickened at Ground Zero has landed in hospice care.
June 19, 2019
A dedication ceremony was held Wednesday for a 9/11 Survivor Tree outside the New York City Fire Museum in Lower Manhattan. The tree stands in honor of FDNY members and others who lost their lives in the rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero.
June 19, 2019
Images of black smoke swallowing the space around him and mangled metal sticking out of the ground, are still carved into Alberto De La Rosa’s memory. “It’s a picture in my head, it’s like volcano.
June 19, 2019
It’s been nearly 18-years since the World Trade Center towers collapsed on September 11, 2001. But the damaging effects of the resulting poor air quality are still felt today, causing health issues for first responders.
June 19, 2019
Archivists who bought a stash of CDs at a house clearance sale found 2,400 photos of Ground Zero in New York taken following the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
June 18, 2019
When Jon Stewart gave an impassioned speech last week urging lawmakers to reauthorize funding for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, one of the retired first responders who accompanied him was Luis Alvarez, a former bomb-squad detective for the New York Police Department.
June 17, 2019
Comedian Jon Stewart's viral testimony before Congress last week demanding compensation for 9/11 survivors was laced with indignation, rage and tears.
Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and sleep in the daily lives of World Trade Center responders
June 17, 2019
Sleep disturbances are common in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and can have major impacts on workplace performance and functioning.
June 15, 2019
They are the people whose plight brought comedian and activist Jon Stewart to tears during an impassioned appearance before Congress this week over funds for other ailing first responders to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
June 14, 2019
A ceremony was held Friday to rename an intersection in Queens for a longtime fire chief who led rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero. The corner of 90th Street and Rockaway Boulevard in Ozone Park was renamed Chief Ronald Spadafora Way.
June 13, 2019
According to a leading World Trade Center medical expert, there could be as many as 20,000 more cancers as a consequence of exposures to the contaminants that were released by the collapse of the Twin Towers and fires that burned for months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
June 13, 2019
Seven years in the making, a new memorial will be unveiled in Los Gatos that not only honors veterans, but first responders-and 9/11 heroes. The memorial is located at the Los Gatos Civic Center on East Main Street. A dedication ceremony will be held on Saturday.
