NEWS: 9/11 Claims Another Life

CULTURE: 9/11 Claims Another Life

A former New York City detective who worked "hundreds of hours" at Ground Zero has died from respiratory problems.

He was only 34 years old.

So young. So sad. So unfair.

Where was there so much mercury in the WTC that it was a problem?

Doesn't take much, really.

Probably came from all the computer monitors that were destroyed. Monitors contain mercury, as well as lead and a few other toxic materials.

And his daughter's just been orphaned.

I am an electrician all of the lighting was flourescent each flourescent tube contains mercury once it becomes hot enough it becomes a vapor

The two largest sources would have been from thermostats (or other mercury-switched devices) and, by far the greatest quantity, fluoroescent light fixtures. Each fluoroscent tube would probably have contained from 25 to 65 milligrams of mercury (depending upon make and size).

Think how many thousands of such fixtures, and how many tubes per fixture, would have been in the buildings.

Huh. Good to know.

ugh. so depressing.

That's just so awful.

Our tax dollars at work. I wonder if the WTC sets the record for largest brought down by demolitions.

Sad to see another death from Riechstag 2.

Huh?

I think he's refer to one of those conspiracy theories.
He's comparing the US government to the nazis.

Yeah, I got what he was saying ... the 'huh' was more of a 'why?'.

that's really sad

how much mercury do you need to be exposed to before it becomes lethal?

mercury vapor (found in the all of the light bulbs) is extremely toxic in concentrations at 0.1mg/m^3 (0.1milligrams per cubic meter) or above. it would actually be safer for you to drink pure mercury than inhale it because your body has a better chance of processing it into one of the salts of mercury before it hits your central nervous system.

There is a lot of nutter butters out there.

It's par for the course when discussing Israel, 9/11 or the newest World of Warcraft patch, though.

And he leaves behind a four year old orphan.

They probably didn't have enough time or resources....nor did they really think about the mercury vapors. Is there even a gak mask sort of thing that can protect against mercury?

I predict this will be the first of many. Not a good situation at all.

Well it could be that the EPA lied and said the air in lower manhattan was perfectly safe, to minimize economic damage.

That, and the steel from the building collapse was a smoldering slag of molten metal that gave off smoke a vapour for literally months, even with non-stop fire hoses trained on it. The article also says he worked hundreds of hours there.