Word: lungfuls
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...Public health and environmental groups were quick to call the new rules too lax. According to a report from the American Lung Association, the new rules "leave far too many people at risk of serious harm - even premature death - from breathing unhealthy, polluted air." The Lung Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association all favor a daily standard of 25 microgram per cubic meter of air for fine particles and an annual limit of 12 micrograms per cubic meter...
...Firefighter • It Was All Part of the Job A lieutenant with the FDNY survives that day, only to be forced into retirement due to crippling lung problems...
...Firefighter • It Was All Part of the Job A lieutenant with the FDNY survives that day, only to be forced into retirement due to crippling lung problems...
...9/11, I've been forced to retire. Pretty much right away I had difficulty breathing because of all the dust and debris at the site. I went to our department doctor and as soon as they took a CAT scan they realized there was something wrong. I have serious lung problems. I retired in 2002, but then came back to the department as a consultant. On Sept. 11 we'd been unable to communicate with the radios we had in the Trade Center because of all the steel and concrete. I invented a radio, the Command Post Radio, that...
...Firefighter • It Was All Part of the Job A lieutenant with the FDNY survives that day, only to be forced into retirement due to crippling lung problems...