"We Were Dying With Every Breath We Took"... Parts of 9/11 Cover-Up Documents Revealed

The massive gray dust cloud that blanketed the collapsed World Trade Center.

At the time, New York City authorities repeatedly emphasized that the air quality was safe, but the reality was completely the opposite.

A 170,000-page cache of internal 9/11 records, which had been left neglected in a New York City office and was finally released following a lawsuit by a civic group, was recently made public.

According to the documents, asbestos far exceeding safety limits was detected at nearly every location tested by investigators at the time.

The documents clearly reveal circumstances showing that city authorities had already internally recognized the fatal risks of the air quality, yet minimized and covered up the dangers out of concern for site recovery and economic fallout.

[Zohran Mamdani / Mayor of New York City : People got sick because leaders they trusted lied to them and told them it was safe to breathe toxic air.]

Firefighters, police officers, and nearby residents deployed to the site continue to suffer from respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and various cancers to this day, 25 years later.

In fact, it has been found that more people have died from exposure to toxic dust afterward than the approximately 3,000 who died on the day of the 9/11 attacks.

Surviving firefighters cannot hide their devastation and anger.

[James Brosi / Uniformed Fire Officers Association : With every breath we took at the site, we were dying. What we have learned is that the city knew it. They made an economic decision not to tell us, and now they must pay the price.]

The 170,000 pages released this time are only the first installment of the entire covered-up documents, and additional materials are scheduled to be released sequentially over the coming year.

Fire departments and victim advocacy groups, based on the newly revealed evidence of deception, have strongly urged the government to comprehensively expand the scope of medical support and compensated illnesses for first responders.

(Video Editing: Park Eun-ha)

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