Remembering Those We Lost (7 years ago today)

[Omaha Steve]

Please note that last year Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association member Jay Corcoran was added to the list. It was because of action taken by a DU member that his name is on the list below.



http://www.afscmeblog.org/category/public-service/

Remembering Those We Lost
September 11th, 2008

On the seventh anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and United Airlines Flight 93, we remember the nearly 3,000 people killed that day. Some 600 union members were lost, including nine AFSCME members: Yvette Anderson, Florence Cohen, Harry Goody, Marian Hrycak, Dorothy Temple, Chet Louie, Rev. Mychal Judge, Ricardo Quinn and Carlos Lillo.



http://www.afscme.org/publications/18043.cfm

New York – 9/11-Linked Illness Claims Another First Responder

New York City, New York
Brian Ellicott, Ground Zero Rescue Worker

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.


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.


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:

* EMT Felix Hernandez Jr., Highbridge Station 17 in the Bronx, October 2006.
* EMT Timothy Keller, Hillcrest Station 50 at Queens Hospital Center, June 2005.
* Paramedic Deborah Reeve, Station 20 at Jacobi Hospital, March 2006.




Union Members Lost to Terrorism

http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/convention/2001/911_lostunionmembers.cfm