Several programs are trying to keep track of the health problems plaguing people directly affected by the 9/11 attack in New York and its aftermath. There’s a federally funded program for people with documented illnesses, including dozens of different cancers, asthma and other respiratory problems, post-traumatic stress disorder, and long-term problems caused by injuries.

Seventeen years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, we look back at a day that changed the world forever.

Detroit Fire Commissioner Eric Jones told The Detroit News Monday that disregarding traffic signals and speed limits with the activation of lights and sirens for every single run — even when it's not urgent — is unnecessarily dangerous. 

The policy, which began last month and applies to all fire personnel and those who drive fire department vehicles, classifies runs by two codes: one for emergent runs and the other for non-life threatening calls.

Previously, crews responded to all calls with lights and sirens. The city’s EMS has been dispatching runs by code for years. But the new policy now adds the firefighter runs to the same system, Jones said.

Unlike many of Orange County’s new multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art firehouses, Station 29 was a converted mobile home with a tall carport under which firefighters park the station’s lone fire engine and ambulance.

When it opened, the fire station had primary responsibility for providing fire protection and emergency medical service in an area of northwest Orange County spanning about 34 square miles, but nearly 25 square miles were located in Wekiwa Springs State Park and Rock Springs Run State Reserve.