Rudy Giuliani – downplayed the health risks of the area and rushed to reopen the area around Ground Zero, although this posed a grave and immediate health risk first responders
Is the quote from the article but the sourcing is poor.
Basically regardless of what Giuliani did first responders would have been working without respirators. There were simply not enough for everyone and not enough time to get more. It was an emergency after all.
It’s not like he was preventing rescuers from using what equipment was available.
What he did do though was force the area to reopen well before the air was safe. This required first responders to continue working after the initial emergency. Meaning people were exposed due to lack of equipment unnecessarily.
Also by forcing the area around Ground Zero to reopen so early he endangered basically every person that entered the area. For absolutely no good reason.
Additionally there is evidence he was not insuring that first responders in the city were provided adequate equipment before 9/11.
So I’m trying to be specific about what he did that was so terrible. Rescuers were going to respond and there would never have been enough PPE.
But Giuliani rushed the re-opening, causing harm to cleanup crews, first responders, and the public. He also did not provide emergency services with requested equipment before the attack. If he had listened there still wouldn’t have been enough PPE, but a lot less people would have been exposed.
Is the quote from the article but the sourcing is poor.
Basically regardless of what Giuliani did first responders would have been working without respirators. There were simply not enough for everyone and not enough time to get more. It was an emergency after all.
It’s not like he was preventing rescuers from using what equipment was available.
What he did do though was force the area to reopen well before the air was safe. This required first responders to continue working after the initial emergency. Meaning people were exposed due to lack of equipment unnecessarily.
Also by forcing the area around Ground Zero to reopen so early he endangered basically every person that entered the area. For absolutely no good reason.
Additionally there is evidence he was not insuring that first responders in the city were provided adequate equipment before 9/11.
So I’m trying to be specific about what he did that was so terrible. Rescuers were going to respond and there would never have been enough PPE.
But Giuliani rushed the re-opening, causing harm to cleanup crews, first responders, and the public. He also did not provide emergency services with requested equipment before the attack. If he had listened there still wouldn’t have been enough PPE, but a lot less people would have been exposed.