More than 15 years after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, the families of the city’s first-responders continue to lose them to illnesses they contracted working on the rescue, recovery and clean-up of Lower Manhattan that went on for several months after the Twin Towers collapsed.
Earlier this month, retired Firefighter Robert Newman became the latest member of the fire service to die from a 9/11-related cancer. According to the Uniformed Firefighters Association, Mr. Newman, who was 70 when he passed, was the fourth firefighter to succumb this year.
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