Grenfell Tower a dozen firefighters sick with cancer and leukemia

Grenfell Tower, a dozen firefighters sick with cancer and leukemia after being rescued

there healthcare and the labor union of firefighters monitor the number of cases of Cancer and leukemia between the approx 1,300 firefighters involved in the shutdown process Grenfell Towerthe skyscraper of London caught fire 2017 causes the death of 72 people including Italian architects Marco Gottardi and Gloria Trevisan. According to British media reports, at least they are 12 the cases of leukemia and digestive cancer, some terminalsfound among the firefighters, in many cases very young, who were sent to the district North Kensington.

Four years ago an investigation conducted byUniversity of Central Lancashire had highlighted, like me lands around Grenfell Tower have been polluted carcinogenic debris within 200 meters. The cause would be to be found in the insulating panelsthat helped accelerate the flames and that would have contained them poisonous substances as the benzene. As the British tabloid reports, these substances could also cause it renal pathologiesheart and stroke.

The union warned that firefighters taking part in the Maxi operation were being dispatched from different cities to protect them United Kingdom, will ask for further studies and insights. There is talk among firefighters, a source told Der Spiegel “Grenfell Cough” and of people “who are ill even though they have never smoked Cigarette in her life”. The first firefighter to enter the tower, David Badilloit has been said “concerned” stressing that he “was investigated but fortunately nothing came of it”.

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