News article about recovery and commemoration, Sept 2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Irt Ahe. -• • ■3’/ Photo by Paul Martinka Grant Program that provides assistance for items, primarily air purifiers, air filters and HEPA (high efficierKy particulate air filter system) vacuum cleaners. “What it is designed to do is teip pec^le buy equipment to help imjMOve the environ­ ment in their homes, or to repair or replace their air conditioners which took in a lot of dust after the attacks,” ^id a FEMA spokesperson. The progr^ which, has been .up and run­ ning since mid-November, has an triplication deadline of September 30. If interested, call 1 - 800-462-9029. The Department of Health (DOH) in con- junction with the Centers fw Disease Control and Prevention are wOTking to set up a registry of 200,000 people who fit into the worst case scenario ©f September 11, called the World Trade Registry. “The goal of tte regis&y is to lode the peo­ ple who -we know had tte most impact, the people who in some cases were covered in debris after tte towers collapsed, and being . able to track what tte potential impacts are over a period of time,” said DOH spokesper- This dramatic photo, tAen by the crewab^rd SOT Sandra Mullin. International Space Stottoi^n ^ten^ n Therefore, if tte people who were highly shows th© massive cloud exposed to tte plume show minimum health covered Brooklyn Ww a shroud after toe attack on effects and no clusters of illness occur, those the Vitortd Tirade Center. people who were less exposed ‘have less to worry about. “There will be no quick answers,” said Mullin. Since September 11, DOH has been contin­ ually monitoring 911 calls and eme^ency room visits as well, looking fix clusters of people with common symptoms and health experiences to see if something has haj^ned in (xte particular area. “You certainly would have heard of it if there were any issues,” said Mullin. Lombardo stated, “I think a person experi­ encing symptoms should definitely seek help and not assume that it will go away. It needs evaluation.”

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