Thousands of firefighters, police officers and emergency crews who fought to save lives at the World Trade Center are now fighting to save their own, as they battle ailments caused from inhaling toxic dust as the buildings crumbled.

It took the US government nine years to pass a bill guaranteeing treatment and compensation for the so-called First Responders from 9/11.

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