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9/11's reverberations still felt in the FDNY, report shows

25-year health crisis ongoing

BY HARPER FREEMAN
Posted 9/11/26

When the South tower came down, both Andrew Ansbro and Gary Smiley thought they were going to die.  

9/11 was the first fire that Ansbro responded to as an FDNY firefighter and he had just been ordered into the tower when millions of tons of steel and concrete came crashing down, destroying most of the Marriot World Trade Center where he, dozens of other firefighters and other responders had gathered. 

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