New York – 9/11-Linked Illness Claims Another First Responder
Once again, a first responder to the disaster that befell this city and the nation on Sept. 11, 2001, has died of cancer linked—his family and former colleagues are confident—to the effects of the toxic air he breathed at Ground Zero.
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9/11 Victim — EMS Lt. Brian Ellicott, a member of Local 3621 (DC 37) died of cancer likely caused by his exposure to toxic air at Ground Zero.
Once again, a first responder to the disaster that befell this city and the nation on Sept. 11, 2001, has died of cancer linked—his family and former colleagues are confident—to the effects of the toxic air he breathed at Ground Zero.
EMS Lt. Brian Ellicott, a member of Paramedics and Emergency Medical Technicians Local 3621 (DC 37), was just 45 years old when he passed away last November, becoming the first member of his local to die of an illness—non-Hodgkin's lymphoma—believed contracted at Ground Zero.
Assigned to Station 4 in Lower Manhattan, Ellicott had worked at Ground Zero for more than 100 hours during the first two weeks of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.
Members of Local 2507 (DC 37) also have died from the apparent effects of their work at Ground Zero, including:
