{"id":403228,"date":"2025-11-25T08:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/403228\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:49:21","slug":"advocates-seek-answers-after-discovery-of-decades-old-files-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/403228\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocates seek answers after discovery of decades-old files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates and officials are raising questions after the city confirmed it recently located 68 boxes of 9\/11 toxin-related documents.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advocates and officials are raising questions after the city confirmed it recently located 68 boxes of 9\/11 toxin-related documents<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Last Tuesday, they were able to start looking inside some of the boxes<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Now they wait as the Department of Environmental Protection scans the documents they\u2019ve vetted so they can begin to learn what exactly was in the air in the days and months after the Sept. 11 attacks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last Tuesday, they were able to start looking inside some of the boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Now they wait as the Department of Environmental Protection scans the documents they\u2019ve vetted so they can begin to learn what exactly was in the air in the days and months after the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow could this happen, and who was behind it? Was it intentional misconduct or just incompetence?\u201d General Counsel of the FDNY Uniformed Firefirefighters Association Thomas McManus said.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates say they\u2019ve been requesting the documents for years from the department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty four years ago, they made the choice to hide the evidence of what happened [on] 9\/11,\u201d FDNY UFA President Andrew Ansbro said.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference Monday, representatives from the FDNY UFA alleged the documents were suppressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shame is, it turns out from these boxes of materials that we just discovered, that the City of New York likely knew as early as 2001 how dangerous these toxins were,\u201d 9\/11 survivor and advocate Michael Barasch said.<\/p>\n<p>Barasch is a two-time cancer survivor and also represents people living with 9\/11 related-illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make sure that we get to see everything with no redactions at all. We\u2019re entitled to this information. And it\u2019s long overdue,\u201d Barasch said.<\/p>\n<p>City Hall responded, saying it cannot discuss pending litigation, adding \u201cThe city has begun turning over documents to plaintiff\u2019s counsel, and both parties are working out a schedule to continue this process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLawsuits didn\u2019t bring boxes, press conferences didn\u2019t bring boxes, but [the Department of Investigation] did it,\u201d City Councilmember Gale Brewer said.<\/p>\n<p>Brewer sponsored the law requiring the DOI to conduct the search.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know what we\u2019re going to find, but it\u2019s really important to have this information available to the public,\u201d Brewer said.<\/p>\n<p>As the review continues, the question remains: were these documents hidden or lost in two decades of bureaucracy?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 140,000 people in the World Trade Center Health Program deserve to know. Their families deserve to know. The families of those [who] have died deserve to know,\u201d Ansbro said.<\/p>\n<p>Brewer says that only 22 of the 68 boxes have been opened. Right now, it\u2019s unclear when they\u2019ll be able to see the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advocates and officials are raising questions after the city confirmed it recently located 68 boxes of 9\/11 toxin-related&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":402723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12170,7448,21400,5249,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5292,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-403228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-public-safety","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-louis-finley","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-public-safety","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115609483619161061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}