Cancer from Pentagon attack kills FBI agent

FOR 10 WEEKS after 9/11, FBI Special Agent Melissa Morrow spent hours upon hours sifting through the toxic terrorist crash site at the Pentagon.

Fifteen years later, she was diagnosed with brain cancer — and last week, she became the latest victim of the Al Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Morrow, 48, died Thursday in what federal officials called a line-of-duty death due to her exposure to the poisons unleashed by the fiery airliner crash in the nation’s capital.

“Strength & courage come in many forms; most give some, some gave all,” tweeted her colleagues in the Kansas City field office. “(Special Agent) Morrow will be remembered most as a warrior. She will forever be considered a hero.”

In addition to 9/11, she was a first responder to a subsequent six-alarm warehouse fire in Alexandria, Va., where evidence collected from the Pentagon plane crash was stored, officials said.

The University of Missouri graduate joined the FBI in Washington after finishing law school in 1995.

Morrow transferred home to Kansas City in 2010. She was diagnosed in July 2016 after sudden and disabling attack of massive headaches, insomnia and fatigue.

“Every single day, hour, minute and second being alive is a precious gift,” she wrote in an August 2016 web posting about her health woes.

Morrow was assigned to the Pentagon response team in Washington after the terrorist attack, and spent the next 2½ months pulling and processing pieces of evidence from the contaminated site.

According to the WTC Health Program Enrollment, only 1% of those who signed up to treat 9/11 health issues were first responders at the Pentagon or Shanksville, Pa. — a total of 488 people.

Morrow’s ailment was certified by the World Trade Center Health Program and Sept. 11th Victim Compensation fund.

In New York, hundreds of 9/11 first responders are struggling with illnesses linked to their efforts at smoldering Ground Zero after the Twin Towers toppled.

Exposure to toxic fumes and dust at the World Trade Center was blamed in those cases, similar to Morrow’s .

Fireball erupts on 9-11 seconds after hijacked jet crashed into Pentagon. FBI Special Agent Melissa Morrow (right) died Thursday from cancer related to her work at the toxic wreckage (below).