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An Elite Group Of 9 / 11 First Responders Still Fighting An Illness, "the WTC Cough"
Harold Schapelhouman, fire chief in the District of Menlo Park protection against fire, breathing heavily.
The posted speed limit of 15 km / h, but when you fight a respiratory infection through the mountain, rules out the window. Your lungs need. You have to push.
Schapelhouman has been pushing for years.
As the former captain and leader of the working group for the search and rescue in urban California, responded to Schapelhouman disasters across the country. He saw that man and Mother Nature can do, the Oklahoma City bombing to Hurricane Katrina.
He knew what he sees as his team headed to New York to help cleanup efforts and recovery after the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.
"It's like working in a cemetery. But somebody has to do. Someone has to go there and pick up the pieces. ... We are an elite team, and we were honored to go," he said.
What I do not foresee a long-term impact of his time "stack" is the World Trade Center.
Schapelhouman and his team are just some of the thousands of responders who showed signs of weakening inhaling dust at the site.
Seventy percent of his team got sick of his time at Ground Zero. Symptoms may include nosebleeds, skin rashes, pneumonia, upper respiratory infections, and what is known as the World Trade Center cough.
Schapelhouman often wakes in the middle of the night unable to breathe. "I remember going out on a call from a patient with emphysema 80 years who had smoked all his life. This can not happen to me. I'm too young for that. I'm in the best years of my life I'm in my 40, I on top of my game. "
Schapelhouman is not only a lawyer, but also one of the thousands of employees and residents of the area of Ground Zero in the Global Registry of Health Trade Center. The registry was created to monitor the health effects of those involved in recovery or those living near the towers. It is the largest registry to monitor the health effects of a disaster in American history.
Last year, Congress passed the James Zadroga 9 / 11 and the Act on Compensation of health, which provides financial assistance to sick workers. Joe Daniels, president of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, says that although it took a while to get the bill passed, it was right. "People who have worked here at work, construction workers, volunteers, businesses, first responders did so selflessly. They did not think of anything other than" We have I come here, we are able to help, we want to help. "
Schapelhouman said that this attitude is shared by almost all the staff who helped in the recovery.
"It 'a very contradictory. You want it did not happen, but if it happens, I know that most of the fire brigade or the police would have said:" I want to be there. "Because that's what we do. And 'our work."
Schapelhouman took care of strenuous exercise in its fight against respiratory diseases. It is not a choice. He knows if he does not use a hard, does not live his life, would have lived if he had not gone to Ground Zero.
Once more it is pushing. Not only for himself but for his family.
Schapelhouman wants a normal life. He wants to see his 11 year old daughter to grow up and get married. He wants to live long enough to play with his grandchildren.
He does not forget ground zero, although some of it is.
"One can not help to recover from one of these events and feel like when the sun is out, the days are a little bit brighter. When you are with your family and friends, it is sweeter and better. .. It is realizing how fragile life is.
The posted speed limit of 15 km / h, but when you fight a respiratory infection through the mountain, rules out the window. Your lungs need. You have to push.
Schapelhouman has been pushing for years.
As the former captain and leader of the working group for the search and rescue in urban California, responded to Schapelhouman disasters across the country. He saw that man and Mother Nature can do, the Oklahoma City bombing to Hurricane Katrina.
"It's like working in a cemetery. But somebody has to do. Someone has to go there and pick up the pieces. ... We are an elite team, and we were honored to go," he said.
What I do not foresee a long-term impact of his time "stack" is the World Trade Center.
Schapelhouman and his team are just some of the thousands of responders who showed signs of weakening inhaling dust at the site.
Schapelhouman often wakes in the middle of the night unable to breathe. "I remember going out on a call from a patient with emphysema 80 years who had smoked all his life. This can not happen to me. I'm too young for that. I'm in the best years of my life I'm in my 40, I on top of my game. "
Schapelhouman said that this attitude is shared by almost all the staff who helped in the recovery.
"It 'a very contradictory. You want it did not happen, but if it happens, I know that most of the fire brigade or the police would have said:" I want to be there. "Because that's what we do. And 'our work."
Schapelhouman took care of strenuous exercise in its fight against respiratory diseases. It is not a choice. He knows if he does not use a hard, does not live his life, would have lived if he had not gone to Ground Zero.
Schapelhouman wants a normal life. He wants to see his 11 year old daughter to grow up and get married. He wants to live long enough to play with his grandchildren.
He does not forget ground zero, although some of it is.
"One can not help to recover from one of these events and feel like when the sun is out, the days are a little bit brighter. When you are with your family and friends, it is sweeter and better. .. It is realizing how fragile life is.
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