One woman wants more to be done for those who died from breathing the toxic fumes and dust at Ground Zero.
Jacqueline Lopez’s husband, Luis, was a lieutenant in the NYPD. His job after the attack was to guard the pile during the early recovery efforts.
Jacqueline Lopez’s husband, Luis, was a lieutenant in the NYPD. His job after the attack was to guard the pile of rubble during the early recovery efforts.
“There have been almost 1,800 deaths related to 9/11 illnesses since 2001,” Lopez says.
In May 2012, Luis became sick.
“”We went to four different hospitals and they finally, at Mount Sinai, were able to do a lung biopsy and diagnose him with [a] 9/11 illness,” Lopez says.
Luis died on June 16. Jacqueline doesn’t want to take away from remembrances of the thousands of innocent people murdered on 9/11, but she feels that more should be done to remember and honor people like Luis who are also victims.
“So many volunteers, construction workers, EMS; they went down there trying to help,” she says. “They breathed in the toxic fumes and so many have died.”
