Episode

Rob Serra: 9/11 Hero On The Broken Promise. 257 FDNY Dead From 9/11 Illness.

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Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

Published

Aug 13, 2026

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1888

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Summary

Rob Serra is a legendary FDNY firefighter whose first day on the job was September 11, 2001. He's spent the twenty-plus years since burying brothers, fighting his own government for basic acknowledgement that the air wasn't clean, and refusing to let the country slide into the comfortable amnesia of an annual hashtag. In this conversation, Paul Rieckhoff sits down with Rob as another FDNY firefighter dies of a 9/11 illness thirty minutes before they hit record — a gut-punch reminder that 9/11 is not a memory, it's still killing people this week.