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Post-9/11 first responder deaths near total who died during attacks

By Gabrielle M. Etzel
Published September 11, 2023 2:47pm ET
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Post-9/11 first responder deaths near total who died during attacks
FILE - Firefighters work beneath the destroyed mullions, the vertical struts which once faced the soaring outer walls of the World Trade Center towers, after a terrorist attack in New York, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)


The number of first responders who died from illnesses stemming from the 9/11 terrorist attacks is nearly the number of public servants who died on Sept. 11, 2001.

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