Furiously Fighting the 9/11 Toxins

Sept. 11, 2001, was primary election day in New York City. Paul Murphy, an NYPD lieutenant, visited the polls in Brooklyn early that morning to make sure the election process was going smoothly. On his way back to police headquarters, he noticed smoke billowing from one of the World Trade Center towers. “I called my office and spoke to a detective. He said that the building shook a few minutes ago, and it felt almost like an earthquake,” Murphy told LifeZette. “I assume that was the impact of the first jet smashing into the tower.” “We worked 12-hour days, six days a week [at Ground Zero],” said Paul Murphy. He proceeded on his way, and was driving through a tunnel when he heard on the radio that the second tower had been hit. “I realized this was no accident. This was a planned attack on New York City.” Other planes were still in the air at this point, and the