Public’s help sought in funding 9/11 memorial in Kentucky

By Kimberly | Published: November 15, 2022

Somerset-Pulaski County Special Response Team received a 3,000-pound piece of World Trade Center steel years ago and displayed it. Their headquarters burned down in April 2021 and now they are rebuilding a home for the steel that will include a granite model of the Twin Towers, sod from the Flight 93 crash site, and Pentagon-shaped portions, reports Christopher Harris of the Commonwealth Journal.

The agency needs help meeting the costs of the new memorial, which will not use any insurance proceeds from the fire. They’d like to have the memorial complete in time for the 22nd anniversary of the attacks next year.

Learn more here.

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9/11 advocacy group asks CDC to reconsider contract with Sedgwick for health services due to ‘nonperformance’

By Kimberly | Published: November 15, 2022

Benjamin Chevat of the advocacy group 9/11 Health Watch has again written to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requesting that Managed Care Advisors-Sedgwick, a healthcare provider to many of those sick from 9/11-related illnesses, not have their contract renewed.

The letter enumerates many instances of problems encountered by the roughly 25,000 people who currently depend on Managed Care Advisors-Sedgwick for their care. 

“The CDC contracting office can do their job and take public action against Sedgwick, or 9/11 responders and survivors will continue not getting the care they need, and that is not an option,” Chevat told Michael McAuliff of the New York Daily News.

His letter can be read here.

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World Trade Center first responders: Double risk for blood cancer

By Kimberly | Published: November 10, 2022

A new study shows that recovery workers from the World Trade Center site have double the risk of multiple myeloma.

Dr. C. Ola Landgren of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami and her team screened a cross-section of recovery workers and compared their blood cancer risk factors to those of the general population and discovered that those who spent time at the World Trade Center site had much higher rates of myeloma precursor disease, reports Melanie Falcon for WFMZ69.

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