9/11-related illnesses have killed more FDNY members than died in terrorist attack: ‘Losses did not end at the World Trade Center’

Firefighters pause for a second moment of silence outside FDNY Engine 4/Ladder 15’s firehouse in lower Manhattan on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in New York. (Credit: BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP/Getty Images)

Twenty-three years ago today, 343 members of the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Now even more have died from illnesses related to their rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero.

In a ceremony last week, 32 FDNY members’ names were added to the department’s World Trade Center Memorial Wall in Brooklyn, bringing the illness-related deaths to more than 360.