"Contractors evidenced little if any attention to safety and health, let alone training, and communications and coordination among the various organizations with respect to safety and health particularly was isolated and difficult at best."
John Moran, writing in an Oct. 6, 2001, worker safety report about the Sept. 11 cleanup to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
"Now I've got asthmatic bronchitis."
Harold Schapelhouman, chief, Menlo Park, Calif., Fire Protection District and national recovery and rescue unit, after leaving his doctor's office for another post-Sept. 11 visit
"When you sound like an 80-year-old man with emphysema, you become concerned what this is."
Harold Schapelhouman, chief, Menlo Park, Calif., Fire Protection District and national recovery and rescue unit
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