NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
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The Sacramento Bee - sacbee.com -- N.Y. air hazards found
Comparative particulate concentrations
The lewis of very fine and ultra-fir® particles near the World Trade
Center site as compared with peak days of air pollution for Beipng,
considered the worst In the world, and
Bakersfield, some of ihe worst in the U.S. IB World Trade Center.
<kL3,2001
700.....................- 643......... —
« 600------------------ March 31,2001
I 500----------- H Bakersfield,
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g 300........... —
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s 200-120-156
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Aluminum Silicon Vanadium
found in concrete found in glass found in fuel dl
Worrisome findings
♦ The coBapse of the twin towers spewed lung-piercing partfctes,
• Vapors from the super-hot wreckage ©ratted still nwe of the pweniially
dar^erote particles weeks after the collapse.
♦ Some of the particles were insoliible elenrents of concrete and glass
- silcon, calcium, aluirtnum - that can stay Icdged in the lur^ for
decades.
Gomtnews
« Relatively few cancer-causing asbestos fibers from the building*
fir^roonr^ matwial were detected.
e Glass from thousand^ of windows and computer screens disintegrated
Bito smooth particles instead of more dar^erous shards.
® Lead tevels were low. The metal can dama^ the central nervous
system, particularly In chadren.
Sojce: UC Davis Secffimento Bee/SbaMon Carpartter
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