Reposted by @andrew6-68.bsky.social
posting a gift link to this excellent essay by Dan O'Brien about watching his world burn, twice: Once in NYC on 9/11 and once in the Palisades Fire in LA. Both O'Brien and his wife developed cancer from toxic air—which seems timely given the revelations of this week
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Opinion | What 9/11, Cancer and the Palisades Fire Taught Me (Published 2025)
We’ll never know with certainty that carcinogens in the smoke, dust and ash from the World Trade Center caused my wife’s cancer and my own.