Mike Burke was enjoying a round of golf with fellow firefighters when two hijacked planes struck the twin towers ten years ago.
"We immediately left to go to the Trade Center," said Burke, then with Engine 201 of Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He spent the rest of that day -- and much of the night -- laboring in the cloud of dust and debris at ground zero. He returned to the smoldering site again every day for the next two weeks, and then three days a week until February 2002.
Like so many others who worked at or lived near ground zero, Burke, 39, is now dealing with a lengthening list of health problems, the most troubling of which is kidney cancer. Officials originally told him the disease could not be tied to his time at ground zero.
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