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Volume 27
September 2018 Edition
ICE HSI Special Agent Scott Brown (at right), pictured here with Ronald Vitiello, Acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement (ICE)
The Terror attacks of September
11th killed 2,996 people, injured
over 6,000 others, and caused at
least $10 billion in infrastructure
and property damage.
Even now, 17 years later, agents, fire-
fighters, law enforcement officers, EMS
and other First Responders are dying of
9/11-related cancer and respiratory dis-
eases.
and volunteers at the three Sept. 11
crash sites have been diagnosed with
various forms of cancer, according to the
World Trade Center Health Program,
which is administered by the U.S. Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention.
Scott said that the “fear of 9/11-related
cancers hang over all of us, that signed up
to work the recovery.”
At the ceremony he met with a number of
people that he worked with during those
More than 7,500 emergency respond- tough days, and said it was comforting to
ers, recovery and cleanup workers, see them.
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