![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/hero-firefighter-says-9-11-death-toll-continuing-as-survivors-die-from-cancer/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0_9-11-ff.jpg&description=In an exclusive interview with a former first responder turne advocate, Richard Alles details his experience with the growing death toll related to 9/11 illnesses Like most first responders, when Brooklyn Battalion Chief Richard Alles was sent to Ground Zero as part of an FDNY Brooklyn staffing contingent just twenty minutes after the second tower collapsed on 9/11, he had no idea that 22 years later, he'd still be a part of a mission meant to rescue survivors. The number of firefighters who died from 9/11-related illnesses two decades later, nearly matches the number of responders who died on the day. Their names have recently been added to the September 11th Memorial in two separate ceremonies. And for those who are still battling long-term health effects and high medical bills, Richard Alles is still out there helping them secure funding. Alles continued to work as a firefighter until "retirement" - when he went to work as the Director of 9/11 Community Affairs at Barasch & McGarry. Now, Alles works to "inform the 9/11 community of the compensation programs that are available to help pay for health care and medical bills for those afflicted by related illnesses." For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US And the program, all these years later, is still seeing applications, as nearly 10,000 people are considered to have long-term health problems after 9/11. After the area was secured, city officials reopened Wall Street a week later and encouraged people to come back to their homes in Lower Manhattan, clean out the dust, and start living again. Since then, researchers have identified more than 60 types of cancer and about two dozen other conditions that are linked to Ground Zero exposures. "Of the survivor community, a community of 400,000 or so, only 10 per cent of those people are enrolled in the health program or have sought compensation with the Victim Compensation Fund because the federal government doesn't do){kind=link}
In an exclusive interview with a former first responder turne advocate, Richard Alles details his experience with the growing death toll related to 9/11 illnesses
Like most first responders, when Brooklyn Battalion Chief Richard Alles was sent to Ground Zero as part of an FDNY Brooklyn staffing contingent just twenty minutes after the second tower collapsed on 9/11, he had no idea that 22 years later, he’d still be a part of a mission meant to rescue survivors.
The number of firefighters who died from 9/11-related illnesses two decades later, nearly matches the number of responders who died on the day. Their names have recently been added to the September 11th Memorial in two separate ceremonies. And for those who are still battling long-term health effects and high medical bills, Richard Alles is still out there helping them secure funding.
Alles continued to work as a firefighter until “retirement” – when he went to work as the Director of 9/11 Community Affairs at Barasch & McGarry. Now, Alles works to “inform the 9/11 community of the compensation programs that are available to help pay for health care and medical bills for those afflicted by related illnesses.”
For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US