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Twenty-five years after 9/11, FIU researcher Dr. Roberto Lucchini is still working with World Trade Center responders to understand how the toxic exposures and psychological trauma they experienced may affect their health decades later. Lucchini has spent years studying the long-term health of 9/11 responders and now leads research at FIU involving responders who have

I sped to my firehouse, Ladder 127 in Queens, from home. It was Sept. 11, 2001. After stuffing my face from our firehouse fridge — not knowing when or if I’d be eating again — our fire company reported to a staging area nearby. I’d tried several times to call my brother Bill and cousin

When a first responder answers a 911 call, there’s no telling where it will lead or what the day will require of them. But whether it’s a simple trip and fall, a speeding car on the highway or a burning building at risk of collapse, the men and women of every Keys agency run toward

The men and women in the pages here are the first responders, the backbone of our community. They are police officers, firefighters, EMTs and sheriff’s deputies. Many of them chose law enforcement after serving in the military, having been inspired to serve their country and then their communities by the events of Sept. 11, 2021.

They’re the first ones to the scene of an accident on the road or a health incident at home.  On water and land, the Florida Keys’ first responders are at the top of their game when called on to assist members of the public in a time of need.  The job of a first responder