DEP organizational chart for 9/11 emergency response, Sept 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

'ISite dust called harmful Py FRANK LOMBARDI tored, but no cause for con­ nSoXttJCNEWS STAFF WRITER cern has been detected. prominent expert on as- “The air is safe as far as we hesrtos warned yesterday that can tell, with respect to chemi­ prolonged exposure to the cal and biolo^cal agents,” nibble and dust of the col- Giuliani said. ' 'apsed World Trade Center Cohen added that city, state „ .towers could pose a “real” and federal environmental hazard. agencies are “looking at air as­ . Philip Landrigan of bestos” and that “at this point, g^ount Sinai Medical Center we don’t have any level of con­ (nSSiid he was concerned about cern.” the workers clearing away Landrigan, chairman of the debris and rubble of what Mount Sinai’s department of community used to be the city’s tallest medicine, said and preventive landmark. asbestos was used in the early 1970s in He said prolonged expo­ building some of the lower sure over weeks and months, floors of theWorld Trade Cen­ without masks equipped with ter. It was mixed with water respirators, would increase and cement into a slurry that the risk of lung cancer and a was sprayed onto steel beams deadly form of cancer of the for flreproofing, he said. Con- lung linings called malignant tro’ y over asbestos mesothelioma. StO] d it from being used on "You won’t see any immedi­ floors, he said. ate problems,” he said. “It will Another environmental ex- take 25 to 30 years to devel­ pert, who asked not to be iden- op.” tihed, aCTeed with Landrigan Mayor Giuliani and Dr. and saida substantial amount Neal Cohen, the city’s health of asbestos was probably re­ commissioner, said yesterday leased by the collapse of the the air quality is beir^ moni- towers. ‘ ■ ' < ’ • • ‘ . '. J '

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