Heat Wave Asthma - 9/11 Communications Tapes

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Interviews of emergency room workers, doctors, and patients at Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx on the effect of a heat wave on asthma and other heat related illnesses. Press conference witn Norman Siegel and family members of first responders who died during 9/11 on the release of dispatch and 911 communications during that day.


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