WTC correspondence file page, March 2007

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'jgHwYV A f RESERVED EVIDENCE: Eric Giiiin, now an editor at Esquire, saved a shirt he wore on Sept. 1 2001, and a messenger bag (left) he carried as he fled the collapse of the South Tower (above).

Building dust had few toxins By CARL CAMPANItf of lead and other toxic metals hill. “I'm so glad to give New that a preserved shirt worn by a A ..rumpled white Oxford shirt ‘hat were found in and around York good news for once. Tlie Ground Zero volunteer, who ivf! in J messenger bag for more ‘he pile from burning tires and test.s showed the plume was less worked at the site nnmediately than .five years holds a bit of ’«»« debris on the flttors of sur- harmful than we thought. Most after the attack, was loaded with zood acws'for Sept. U survivors rounding buildings, said Univer- of the plume was harmless dry- a,sbestos. ;jught in the massive dust cloud; *.’*>’ of California Davis scien- walL There were no hazardous Catiiii’s study of the burning fhe air was not as poisonous as Ihotnas (..ahiU, who materials," he said. pile where responders worked ireviouslv believed. conducted the study for Esquire. Cahill did say the ground-down found a toxic stew of metal, At least'for those who immedi- 'The shirt and messenger b.^ concrete and gravel swallowed ground glass and incinerated b ly evacuated, an environ- belong to Eric Giiiin, now an ed- and inhaled was a health prob- eomputers. Tlie results were far ii-mai. analysis conducted for ‘he magazine's Web site iem, but mostly a short-term irri- worse than what the Environ­ squire magazine has found. »'ho worked at 14 Wall Street on tant rather than a long-term mental Protection Agency re- Preserved samples from the Sept. 11, 2001. He was one of an issue. ported. ■aed shirt show that two-thirds estimated 5,000 petmle in the vi­ “It’s not a free ride, but it's He said there are reasons for rile debris from the collapse of cinity who fled after the first three times better than we the dirtcring results from the ini­ I Si>ij?h Tower was relatively plane crashed into the South thought," Cahill said. tial plume and the pile. rmiess gypsum from drywall. T ower. For certain, other experts and The materials he tested from , ;’he 'Out third was pulverized "The shirt was .-i godsend. health advocates will question the <»xforJ .shirt were very fine j r n” .nd gravel — caustic There was untouched fine dust CaJiill’s findings. The .study partu h-s, whereas the more rovie J ccri.ls that caused choking, on the shirt. It was an unconta- doesn't taken into account other iiuterials found at the site or "u | ■aghing and sinus problems. minated sample of the dust peo- pollutants — .such as the jet fuel bitiWmgs were heavier anct >-■- > mportantly, the material pie were breathing after the from the planes. 'cd shtiwed littSt: or no traces South Tower collap.sed." said • -

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