As of today, at least 4,627 responders and survivors enrolled in the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program have died. Researchers have identified more than 60 types of cancer and about two dozen other conditions that are linked to Ground Zero exposures. But in the two decades since then, the number of deaths among survivors and responders-who spent months inhaling the noxious dust, chemicals, fumes and fibers from the debris-has continued creeping up.
Nearly 3,000 people died during the deadliest terrorist attack in world history. “But many don’t know that tens of thousands of people got sick, and many have died since then from their illnesses contracted at Ground Zero.” “Most Americans just think two buildings came down that day and innocent lives were lost to senseless violence, and that did happen,” Feal says.
Feal created a foundation that has been instrumental in fighting to ensure 9/11 responders and survivors receive the health care they deserve for the sacrifices they made. He has since undergone 42 surgeries and developed arthritis in about 80 percent of his body, and he suffers chronic problems with his hips, knees and lower back.
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He had been working at Ground Zero for five straight days when 8,000 pounds of steel crushed his left foot.įeal spent 11 weeks in the hospital, eventually developing gangrene, losing half of his foot and relearning how to walk. Feal, who hails from Long Island, N.Y., arrived the day after New York City’s iconic buildings came down. John Feal, now 54 years old, was a supervisor at a demolition company when terrorists hijacked two planes that brought down the World Trade Center buildings-and two others that crashed into the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pa., respectively-20 years ago.
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