The 9-11 Death Toll continues to climb

Maybe the saddest thing about the 9-11 disaster is all of the people who have died, and those who will continue to die in the coming months and years, from exposure to toxic contaminants from the World Trade Center site. The link below from AP via Yahoo tells the story of a NYPD detective in his 30's who just died from exposure to contaminants while doing cleanup work at the site. Its pretty sad, the guy leaves a wife and kids behind, and he was just there trying to help out. Thinking of all the times you saw fireman, police officers and just plain civilians working without protective gear at the site, it makes you wonder how many more deaths will come.

At the time of the disaster, I don't think anyone anticipated all of these problems for those who helped with the cleanup. Maybe the authorities should have done a better job of providing protective gear at the scene, especially days and weeks afterwards. No one expects that they should have had gear there that day, but in a week they should have been able to do so. You also wonder how many of these brave people were offered protective gear such as masks and respirators but turned them down, of course not knowing the potentially life threatening risks that they were taking.

Read about it here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060412/ap_on_re_us/attacks_health;_ylt=Asn5XHFizwI4F6FLum49XNxvzwcF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--