9/11 News Items (12/7/25)
Arnold Korotkin
Below are summaries with URLs to news articles on the effort to ensure that the World Trade Center Health Program is fully funded. An archive of past articles year by year can by found on the Citizens for the Extension of the James Zadroga Inc. website here.
December 5, 2025 — The Chief — Release of documents opens door into city’s early knowledge of WTC toxins
Documents generated in the aftermath of 9/11 by the city that were released earlier this month has offered World Trade Center responders the first glimpse into revelations on what city officials knew about the toxins that lingered over ground zero in the aftermath of the twin towers’ collapse.
December 2, 2025 — Cancer Discovery — Lingering Effects: Environmental Exposure Leads to Clonal Hematopoiesis via IL1RAP in 9/11 First Responders
Increased prevalence of clonal hematopoiesis (CH) among 9/11 World Trade Center first responders is accompanied by uncharacteristic mutations in younger responders and an elevated risk of blood cancer.
December 1, 2025 — The Broadsheet — ‘Outrageous Admission of a Decades-Long Cover-Up’
“This is starting to feel a little bit like the Epstein files,” said Kimberly Flynn, director of the nonprofit advocacy group 9/11 Environmental Action.
November 30, 2025 — New York Times — James Riches, Fire Chief Who Lost Firefighter Son on 9/11, Dies at 74
He spent months searching the wreckage of the World Trade Center for his son’s remains, then suffered lung illnesses attributed to toxic dust.
November 30, 2025 — Occupational and Environmental Medicine — Impact of World Trade Center dust exposure on upper-aero digestive tract disorders and sinonasal surgery: findings from patients seen in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital
Earlier arrival at WTC site increased the risk of needing surgery for responders with CRS. Higher levels of irritant exposure prior to rainfall on 14 September 2001 may have caused significant epithelial injury to the sinonasal mucosa of WTC patients.
November 30, 2025 — NY Daily News — FDNY Deputy Chief James Riches, who searched Ground Zero for his fallen son, dies of 9/11-related illness
Riches, who retired in 2007, suffered from a lung illness for more than two decades before dying at age 74 on Thursday.
November 29, 2025 — New York Post — Former FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches — who lost firefighter son in 9/11 — dies of WTC-related illness
Riches, who served in Fire Operations, was appointed to the FDNY on Aug. 13, 1977, and retired on Dec. 18, 2007.
November 28, 2025 — Translational Psychiatry — MRI signature of brain age underlying post-traumatic stress disorder in World Trade Center responders
Our results suggest that brain age is a relevant marker of structural damage in WTC responders with and without PTSD. PTSD may be a risk factor for accelerated aging in trauma-exposed populations.
November 25, 2025 — Newsday — FDNY union head says city withholding 9/11 toxin data put thousands at risk
Uniformed Firefighters Association president Andrew Ansbro demanded to know who told his members and the public that the air quality was safe to return to lower Manhattan in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
November 25, 2025 — Eyewitness News ABC 7 — FDNY members want answers after discovery of documents about 9/11 toxins at ground zero
Members of the FDNY and union leaders held an emergency rally in Manhattan on Monday afternoon over the discovery of previously undisclosed records about ground zero.
November 24, 2025 — amNY — ‘We need to know who lied’: Firefighters’ union demands answers after 68 boxes related to 9/11 toxins discovered in city agency facility
The union representing FDNY firefighters is demanding answers following the discovery of 68 boxes of documents related to 9/11 toxins at a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) facility in the city.
November 24, 2025 — CBS New York — New York firefighters union demands 9/11 toxins records be released after boxes of documents are uncovered
Did New York City leaders know about the 9/11 toxin dangers more than two decades ago?
November 24, 2025 — New York Post — FDNY union furious over sudden discovery of 68 boxes of 9/11 health data
The Big Apple firefighter’s union is steaming mad over the sudden discovery of 68 boxes of Ground Zero health data following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks — files they were told never existed.
November 23, 2025 — SILive.com — ‘Betrayal,’ says FDNY union to NYC officials after Sept. 11 toxin records appear
Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, said the discovery represents a potential betrayal of first responders who made critical health decisions based on assurances that no documentation was available.
November 23, 2025 — NY Daily News — FDNY union demands answers on sudden city discovery of 68 boxes of 9/11 toxin docs
The union representing FDNY firefighters is demanding answers after City Hall officials discovered 68 boxes of information on the dangers of Sept. 11 toxins despite claiming for years they couldn’t find any records on what authorities knew about Ground Zero health hazards.
November 22, 2025 — NY Daily News — NYC long claimed it had no info on the 9/11 toxins at Ground Zero. Now they have 68 boxes worth.
The materials, ironically, included a directive from the city Law Department written two decades ago ordering the agency to save and preserve any information about the terror attacks.
November 13, 2025 — International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health — Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)-Related Mortality Among World Trade Center-Exposed and Non-World Trade Center-Exposed Rescue and Recovery Workers
This initial evaluation of ALS in WTC-exposed workers indicates that the risk of ALS death is not increased in this population.
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