Latest Radio communications during the September 11 attacks Stories

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation's major annual fundraiser, the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Run, will be replicated in communities throughout the nation and to different international locations on its 11(th) anniversary this September. The Foundation has expanded its reach into communities throughout the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska as well as an inaugural run in London. So far, close to 70...

NEW YORK, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Worby Groner Edelman & Napoli Bern, LLP, Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs in the World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigations, today announced its strong support for the Draft Report release by the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program Scientific/Technical Advisory Committee (STAC). That report, provided at the request of the Administrator of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Law of 2010 ("Zadroga Act") recommends that the...

ENGLEWOOD, Ohio, Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With the recent ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center still fresh on their minds, Creative Microsystems, Inc. (CMI), based in Englewood, Ohio, is releasing its Authority RedHawk LT product to public safety agencies across the State of Ohio, and eventually, the nation. One of the issues that came to light during the 9/11 attacks was the lack of interoperability between responding public safety agencies. According to...

Einstein Montefiore Physician-Researcher Leads Study Published in The Lancet BRONX, N.Y., Sept. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the largest cancer study of firefighters ever conducted, research published in this week's 9/11 Special Issue of The Lancet found that New York City firefighters exposed to the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster site were at least 19 percent more likely to develop cancer in the seven years following the disaster as their non-exposed colleagues and up to...

Mount Sinai researchers coordinating the largest clinical study to date of "Sarcoid Like" Granulomatous Pulmonary Disease in World Trade Center (WTC) responders have found that the rate of the condition was increased in this group as compared to the records of pre-9/11 FDNY personnel. The study is published online in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine.The Mount Sinai researchers studied almost 20,000 responders who had an initial exam in the Mount Sinai World Trade Center...

WEST MELBOURNE, Fla., Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- RELM Wireless Corporation (NYSE Amex: RWC) today announced that it has received a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) from the U.S. Navy. This BPA includes the Company's trunked KNG portable radios, mobile radios, repeaters and related accessories, operating in the VHF, UHF and 700/800MHz frequency bands. The BPA has a maximum value of $5.5 million, with a term that commenced on October 28, 2010 and expires on October 27, 2015. The BPA...

Major factors contributing to a rapid spread of fire at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., on June 18, 2007, included large open spaces with furniture providing high fuel loads, the inward rush of air following the breaking of windows, and a lack of sprinklers, according to a draft report released October 28, 2010, for public comment by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The fire trapped and killed nine firefighters, the most firefighter fatalities in a single...

WEST MELBOURNE, Fla., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- RELM Wireless Corporation (NYSE Amex: RWC) today announced the achievement of a new product development milestone for the Company; introducing the first trunked versions of its expanding KNG-line of digital P-25 radio models. Trunked units are immediately available in the VHF, UHF and 700-800 MHz frequencies. These products expand RELM's addressable market and enable it to compete for a wide range of new opportunities. RELM President and...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 26, 2010, at 9:30 a.m., New York City will once again celebrate firefighter Stephen Siller's bravery, and the indomitable will of all the fallen heroes of 9/11, at the ninth annual FDNY Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Run/Walk. More than 20,000 participants from all parts of the metropolitan area, across the country and from as far away as England and Hawaii are expected to attend the Run/Walk, which retraces the path Siller took...

Rescue workers from the Fire Department of New York City (FDNY) who responded to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center (WTC) continue to suffer ill effects from lung damage due to exposure to dust and other harmful substances at the scene, according to a report released Thursday by researchers of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.The findings of the study, which appear in the April 8, 2010 print edition of The New England Journal of Medicine, evaluated more...