Firefighters Demand Health Transparency

We're not here as Republicans, we're not here as Democrats, we're here as

firefighters. We protect, we serve, we go into buildings while others

are trying to

get out.

But the people sent into that toxic environment deserve to know the

full truth

about what was in the air. They deserve to know the risks.

They deserve protective equipment, honest warnings, medical monitoring, and a

government that treated their health urgency as they treated the city's

emergency.

Instead, many of our members spent years fighting

to prove what they already knew

was in their lungs and in their bodies, that the air was not safe, that the dust

was not harmless, and that the consequences would not disappear

when Lower

Manhattan reopened.