The trail of death Grenfell Tower it does not stop. With some firefighters who intervened on the night of June 14, 2017 to extinguish the flames of the council housing tower in North Kensington, where also lived Marco Gottardi and Gloria Trevisan, aged 27 and 26, along with 70 other people died, the diagnosis was made a Cancer in the final stage. About ten, including young people in their forties, are initially affected by leukemia and tumors rarely related to the high exposure to pollutants during the tremendous effort to extinguish the fire and save as many people as possible.
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I STUDY
It’s the shocking and partial finding of an ongoing study. All firefighters and officers approaching Grenfell Tower that night and the days to come have been invited to take part in the research project, which is closely monitoring their health even after they retire or leave the service. “Very dramatic data will be revealed soon. It’s shocking,” one survivor of the disaster told the Mirror. Some of the 1,300 firefighters on duty that night were in their suits for more than 10 hours, while others were stranded in smoky areas for up to six hours. One of the firefighters who underwent the trials, David Badillo, said he was “very scared by the situation” because “I have two kids and I want to see them grow up, but you can’t know now what’s going to happen in the future.” “. Another colleague, who remained anonymous, however, considered suicide when he was diagnosed with lung problems. The man risked his life to save an entire family caught in flames. “We arrived at the scene very early and stuck in the garage for a long time, where we inhaled toxins,” he said. “I’ve heard about a lot of boys and girls who have what’s called Grenfell’s cough, and I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life.” Before he was in iron health after the fire, but after a month he started coughing and it got worse. Now breathe with the help of an inhaler. “The problem was the time we were exposed to the substances – sa said Brian Flanagan, 47, who had reached the twentieth floor – a standard fire doesn’t last more than four hours. I was in Grenfell for eight hours, twice as long as I should have.” Analysis of the debris also revealed concentrations of carcinogenic chemicals up to 200 meters from the skyscraper. And in the days after the fire, many emergency services were seen unprotected. Some experts fear the toxins in the air may have been worse than those from the fire. “This important research shows that firefighters suffer and die from cancer, heart attacks, heart disease and mental illness while going to work to protect others,” Riccardo la Torre of the national firefighters’ union told the newspaper. “We now know that they are being exposed to substances that threaten their own lives, as was certainly the case in an accident as large as the Grenfell Tower incident.” Despite these risks, he explains, firefighters are not subject to “regular health surveillance and appropriate exposure controls in the UK’.
THE SYNDICATE
“Because of this government and fire service inaction, the Fire Brigade Union is commissioning further inquiries to help us demand proper protection and support and this applies to those who have worked in Grenfell and to all who work across the UK ‘ he finished. The fire, which caught Grenfell like a match in affluent North Kensington, had been caused by a faulty fourth-floor refrigerator but had started with the building’s use of flammable materials for its cladding. Investigations to identify those responsible for the incident are ongoing. The refurbishment of this popular building, which took place between 2015 and 2016, is accused.
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