Overview
- Union leaders and firefighters held an emergency rally in Manhattan pressing for full public release and answers about the newly found records.
- The cache was located after Council Member Gale Brewer’s Resolution 560-A directed a Department of Investigation probe into what administrations knew about Ground Zero hazards.
- Attorneys for 9/11 Health Watch say they reviewed 24 of the 68 boxes, with 44 boxes not yet released to the union’s team.
- City Hall says documents have started to be produced to plaintiffs’ counsel and that both sides are working out a schedule, citing limits due to pending litigation.
- UFA President Andrew Ansbro and counsel Thomas McManus allege prior denials and possible concealment, arguing earlier access could have aided diagnoses and efforts to secure World Trade Center health benefits as roughly 400 FDNY members have died of 9/11-related illnesses.