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Detective Alick Herrmann died from illnesses he contracted from inhaling toxic materials as he participated in the rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Detective Herrmann had served with the New York City Police Department for 20 years and was assigned to the 100 Precinct Detective Squad.
Detective Herrmann had served with the New York City Police Department for 20 years and was assigned to the 100 Precinct Detective Squad.
His story
Alick W. "Al" Herrmann was appointed to the New York City Police Department on 9 January 1986 and began his career on patrol in the 75 Precinct. He went on to serve in Brooklyn South East Narcotics, the Queens North and Queens South Narcotics Divisions, Vice, the Auto Crime Division, and the 102 and 100 Detective Squads. He was promoted to detective on 25 September 1992 and earned second grade on 27 May 2005. In 20 years on the force he made nearly 400 arrests and was recognized six times for excellent police duty and five times for meritorious police duty, and he received a commendation. He retired from the 100 Squad on 13 January 2006.
Detective Herrmann developed myelogenous leukemia as a result of his rescue and recovery work after the attacks of 11 September 2001. After a bone marrow transplant in September 2008, he was in remission for two years, but the cancer returned in 2011 and by July he needed more transplants. He died on 23 December 2011 at the age of 49. The department declared his death in the line of duty, and his name was added to the memorial walls in 2013.
He was survived by his wife, Dorothy, a retired police officer from the 75 Precinct, their two sons and his siblings.
Survived by
He is survived by his wife and two sons.
The Years After
September 11, 2001
For eight months after the towers came down, men and women worked the site. Firefighters, police, paramedics, iron workers, truck drivers, cleaners, volunteers. They breathed what was in that air, and many of them have died of it since - cancers, lung disease, illnesses that took ten years or twenty to arrive.
More people have now died of September 11th than were killed on September 11th. They are not a footnote to the day. They are the day, arriving late.
A man who walked down eighty flights and out into the street, and who died of a cancer in 2031, was killed by the same attack as the man who never got out. This gate holds them together, because the same morning took them both.
On a clear Tuesday morning, four airliners were taken. Two were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the western face of the Pentagon, and one came down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers and crew went forward at the cockpit door.
Two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven people were killed. Three hundred and forty-three were firefighters of the New York City Fire Department. Seventy-one were law enforcement officers. Eight were paramedics and emergency medical technicians. One hundred and twenty-five died at the Pentagon, military and civilian together. The rest - some two thousand four hundred of them - had gone to work, or boarded a plane, and belonged to no service at all.
None of them began that morning as heroes. A great many of them ended it as heroes: men and women who carried strangers down stairwells, who stayed with people who could not walk, who held a door, who went back up. Four men on a flight over Pennsylvania, who had thirty minutes of telephone calls and knew what had already happened, decided where their aircraft would come down.
At Arlington, the nation set aside its own rules of eligibility and buried the Pentagon's civilian dead in national ground. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.
