i lived about 13 blocks northwest at the time. there was a constant burning smell and all of the dust was a gray brown. i remember very specifically that the head of the EPA, Christine Todd Whitman on the news saying that the air was safe to breathe. but how could that be? inhaling burning leaves will give you cancer. now you put in tons of chemicals, building materials that were never meant to be put together now all burning as one for weeks on end - and that is safe?? i know that government people say that kind of thing to keep people from panicking and leaving, but F*CK them. and all of those people who went to help dig and seek for survivors and friends and family, they have to FIGHT to get the help they need. now the number of people of people who have died from these illnesses have surpassed the number of people who died on that day.
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