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Link: http://www.truth-out.org/911-responders-health-problems-worsen-legislation-languishes63652
A rescue worker takes a break from finding survivors following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. (Photo: Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jim Watson / US Navy)
A new AFL-CIO report shows that more than 13,000 of the truly heroic firefighters, police, and other rescuers who were the first to rush to the scene of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, are still being treated for the serious injuries they received.