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A survivor's story of Sept. 11th

Jim Riches spent six months looking for the body of his firefighter son who was killed in the North Tower, all the while breathing in toxic dust and fumes.

Years later, in 2005, the deputy fire chief who never got the sniffles suddenly became ill with flu-like symptoms, which landed him in the hospital where doctors told his family he had only hours to live. Placed in a coma, he miraculously...

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