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Aug 1, 2006 11:47 pm US/Eastern
9/11 Responders React To New Movie
by Valerie Levesque
PLYMOUTH MEETING (CBS 3) ―
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Scene from World Trade Center, set to open August 9th
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A new study is providing disturbing information about first responders at the world trade center on 9/11.
It shows their lungs aged an average of 12-years, in only 12-months. The study involved 12-thousand firefighters and medics, exposed to dust and chemicals, during and right after the collapse of the towers.
They could face serious health problems, according to the study in a medical journal.
The report comes a day before the release of a new film entitled,
World Trade Center , opens in theaters.
It is the story of two real-life police officers, trapped in the falling towers on 9/11, and the efforts to save them.
Several first responders viewed a sneak preview of the film on Tuesday evening in Plymouth Meeting.
Two Whitpain law enforcement officers who were at ground zero saw the movie and said it was life-like.
"It was dead on, the rubble, everything, it was dead on," said Sgt. Joe Fenerty of the Whitpain Township Police Department.
"I thought the movie was fantastic, it was exactly what I felt and saw," said Officer Jerry Schwartz.
The movie opens to the public and in theaters on August 9th.
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