500 Firefighters Ill From Trade Center Work
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As many as 500 New York firefighters who worked at the World Trade Center site are on leave for respiratory problems and other rescue-related injuries, and a union leader warned that the ailments could force many of them into retirement.
The retirements could be another blow to a department that lost 343 firefighters in the trade center attack.
“There’s a strong possibility that many of them may never be able to return to full duty,” said Thomas Manley, sergeant-at-arms for the Uniformed Firefighters Assn.
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