of the tragedy and cleanup it is not an easy task i was joined earlier by ground zero volunteer jamie hazen and i asked him what inspired him to volunteer at ground zero and what kind of work he did while he was there i was a former new york stadium was certified for six years so i wasn't actually certified at the time of the attacks but there were only so many people in new york state. and at that time so you did what anyone else would have done you went down to help out your city so that's what i did i volunteered initially on day one at chelsea piers doing trios work and then i headed downtown the next day to volunteer at ground zero doing recovery work obviously jamie no way to know that when you did that when you kind of stepped up and to step in that you were you know no way to know that you were risk for you know illness talk to me about your story what kind of illnesses you can contract and you know how did you know for sure that they're actually a result of you volunteering at ground zero. well the truth is at first i really didn't know christina i had no clue why i couldn't breath

the tragedy and cleanup it's not an easy task to talk more about all of this i'm joined now by jamie hazen ground zero volunteer hey there jamie thanks for being on the show i know you were a volunteer first responder at ground zero what drew you to volunteer and what kind of work did you do yes christine thank you so much for covering this is such an incredibly important topic and it means an enormous amount of thousands of people that descended upon ground zero in new york so i was a former new york state e.m.t. i was certified for six years so i wasn't actually certified at the time of the attacks but there were only so many people in new york state on manhattan island at that time so you did what anyone else would have done you went down to help out your city so that's what i did i volunteered initially on day one at chelsea piers doing triage work and then i headed downtown the next day to volunteer at ground zero doing rescue and recovery work obviously jamie no way to know that when you did that when you kind of stepped up and to step in that you were you know no way to know that yo