DIOXIN: Search on for fire's toxic legacy

Dioxin-furans can taint the environment for more than 100 years and contaminate the food cycle.

Monitoring only carbon-dioxide, carbon-monoxide and sulfur-dioxide is not enough to prove the environment surrounding the dump fire is free from the contamination of toxic substances.

"We found the PCD had no capacity to examine for contamination of dioxin-furans in the environment near the garbage dump as it needed a lot of money [to pay] for testing in the laboratory," she said.

The toxic substances come from the combustion of plastic syringes, plastic tubes, and polyvinyl chloride known as PVC, which have been used in industrial factories.

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Veterans Dying Waiting On Disability Benefits

Veterans are dying and leaving their spouses or even children to continue their fight.

"I wanted to take the pain. Just a little of it. I just wanted to releave him a little bit but there was no way"” said Mrs. Lundy. Back then doctors had a hard time diagnosing Judge Lundy’s illness. His military discharge files said he had a heart condition.

Lundy filed his first claim with the Veterans Administration asking for disability benefits in 1979. It was denied.

Captain Nick Lundy had more than 40 surgeries, including a liver transplant.

Sadly, he passed away in 1991. During that whole time he appealed his benefits case; claiming his injuries were a direct result of Agent Orange exposure.

The common myth that a veteran’s benefits claim dies with them isn’t true, according to Attig.

VA Appeals Backlog Info

LIfe Cycle of VA Appeal by Agent Orange Legacy

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