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[quote=Anonymous]The last episode was great and I was gratified to see that they noted the three men who went into the water to open the valves all survived, and two are alive today. (Earlier, in episode two or three, the implication was they all would die, which is contrary to reality!)

I do wish they had a little more about the people on the bridge, besides basically saying it is believed they all died, but I guess the lack of records or official death toll makes that impossible.

I lived thru the aftermath of 911 in lower Manhattan, and there was a serious deep concern about air quality — not radiation but asbestos and other particles. Our apartment was inspected for dust etc., and there is still a health registry that tracks the health of tens or hundreds of thousands of people.

At the same time, firefighters were at the front lines here as in the Chernobyl disaster, and charged into danger to protect us all, and fell ill. And US officials (including the then epa chief, as I recall ) did play down the health risks in the interest of getting the city back up and running. Still, far from the secrecy and paranoia of the soviet state.[/quote]

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