Feature News Article: Forgotten to the Max: Sick Montana Town Gets Aid While WTC Heroes Stay Forgotten
The Great Falls Tribune of Great Falls, Montana reported: "The bill has several provisions that could help Montana, including ... special help for the people of Libby, whose exposure to years of asbestos was so severe that the Environmental Protection Agency declared a health emergency... Read More
World Trade Center, 9/11 & Asbestos
9/11 Health Legislation Initiatives
A Congressional Vote is imminent for H.R. 847 The James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act. Please help obtain urgently needed healthcare for the 9/11 Community by participating in the intitiatives below:
Locate your Congressional Representative via the link above. Call, email, write or fax your support of H.R. 847 The James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act.
Contact House Speaker Nancy Pelosi via the link above. Write, email or call to pledge your support of the bill and urge that it be brought to the floor for a vote.
Contact House Majority leader Steny Hoyer via the link above. Write, email or call to pledge your support of the bill and urge that it be brought to the floor for a vote.
Contact United States President Barack Obama via the link above. Email or write to pledge your support of the bill and urge that the president fast track it for signature.
Sign the online petition in support of the bill via the link above. Please forward on so others may aid in helping pass 9/11 Health legislantion.
Rep. Maloney’s 9/11 Health Page
Dedicated to health, hope and healing
within the 9/11 Community.
Fallen Heroes: FDNY Jim Ryan
Editorial: The Time is NOW to Bring Relief to America’s 9/11 Families
Claire Calladine
9/11 Health Now
Public Address 9.11.09 NYC
Good evening, my name is Claire Calladine and I am executive director and co-founder of 9/11 Health Now. I met 9/11 Health Now’s other co-founder David Miller on 9.11.07 at a First Responder benefit, where he was speaking out on behalf of the 9/11 Community. David is a wonderful speaker: eloquent, forceful, bold... but he kept pausing for breath at the podium and to clear his lungs. He was also hooked up to a portable oxygen machine that he breathed through as he spoke... Read More
Download Time Is NOW 9.11.09 .pdf
Fallen Heroes: NYPD Robert Grossman
On September 11, 2001, Grossman rushed to Ground Zero along with thousands of NYPD, FDNY, EMS and other rescue workers, spending weeks at the site. He continued to work within the NYPD until 9/11 illness forced him to retire in 2007. Known for his sense of humor, strength, and love of life, Grossman is survived by wife Carla, son Noah, 6, father and stepmother Stephen and Rochelle Grossman, mother and stepfather Harriet & Morton Epstein, and seven siblings.
Newsday Story Daily News Story Funeral Footage 9.16.09 Story
Eight Years After 9/11, Ground Zero Volunteer Dying of Lung Disease is One of Many Still Fighting for Justice
9.11.09 --NY, NY, Democracy Now-- Today marks the eighth anniversary of 9/11, with vigils being held to remember the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks. We look at a group of victims that are often forgotten in the September 11 narrative... Read More
Feature News: 9/11 Health Legislation Pending as Responders Battle Cancer & Other Ailments
9.8.09 MYFOXNY.COM--In the eight years since the Sept. 11 attacks, doctors have been monitoring the health of the thousands of responders who worked at and near Ground Zero. Over the years, doctors say they've found an increase in conditions such as asthma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and even cancer...
Fallen Heroes: FDNY John McNamara April 26, 1965 - August 9, 2009
Huffington Post Tribute Daily News Article HDTV2 Article
Press Conference Newsday Article Joye Brown Ediitorial
Newsday Funeral Article & Video NY1 Funeral Article & Video
John MacNamara Video Russia Today Story Adam’s Angels Page
Feature News Report: Hundreds of 9/11 First Responders Die of Cancer
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8.24.09 Russia Today--New York's emergency services were among the first on the scene of the 9/11 disaster but put their personal safety in jeopardy. Those involved in the rescue and clean-up operation quickly became national heroes. But now... Full Story
Feature News Article
The proposed legislation — meant to provide treatment for first-responders and others suffering from ailments related to their work in the rescue-and-recovery effort in the aftermath of history’s deadliest terrorist attack on American soil — will actually do little or nothing for the police officers that we call the forgotten victims... Read More
Download Now: 9/11 Health Guides
Clinical Guidelines for Adults Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster 21-page guide by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene detailing types of 9/11 illnesses and guidelines for patients and physicians on diagnosis and treatments.
WTC Clinical Guidelines 2008.pdf
Clinical Guidelines for Children & Adolescents Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster 16-page guide to 9/11’s effects on the younger population includes charts on toxic exposures, diagnosis and treatment issues, long-term ramifications, list of resources & more.
WTC Clinical Guidelines Children & Adolescents.pdf
Filmmaker Brian Johnson profiles 9/11 responder John Citara’s odyssey from Ground Zero civilian volunteer to a life revolving around chronic illness and the ongoing sruggle to survive.
Voices of 9/11: Community Members Speak Out on How 9/11 has Affected Their Lives & Health
Hear FDNY Responder John McNamara, left, on living with World Trade Center cancer. (click on image)
(Photo and Video clip: Allan Tannenbaum)
Read Steve’s Book Press Release
Laura DiPasqua, Erie PA, left, with sons Anthony & Joe: “Since 9/11, I fight for my life every single day...”
In The Spotlight: The James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act of 2009
Read Laura DiPasqua’s Letter to Congress about how her life has changed since 9/11 and why she desperately needs the Zadroga act to pass. (pictured above, with sons Anthony and Joe at the 2.26.08 Rally for 9/11 Health in Washington DC.)
9/11 Physicians Speak Out
“...The mix of chemicals is very complex... in concentrations that were very high... in a mixture that’s previously never been encoutered...”
Hear Testimony More WTC Worker Testimonies
Read Dr. Landrigan’s Discover Magazine Interview World Plague Center
‘..We know that the exposures included a potent mix of carcinogens...’
Feature News Articles
PBA Says 9/11 Health Bill Might Exclude Some Cops:
PBA President Patrick J. Lynch in a statement April 21 said that the language of the James Zadroga Act would set a burden of proof for World Trade Center responders with cancer so difficult to meet that it could keep them from getting health-care treatment, while the bill had specific language for treatment of less-dire ailments such as carpal tunnel syndrome... Full Article PBA Press Release
Obama Says He’ll ‘Never Forget’ Those Sick From 9/11
and the sick firemen.’ He said, ‘I’ll never forget them.’” Read More
The Complicated Death of a 9/11 Hero
9.15.08 The New Yorker--In January, 2006, shortly after James Zadroga died at his parents’ house, in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, Dr. Gerard Breton received a call from the Ocean County Medical Examiner’s Office. A retired hospital pathologist, Breton now conducts autopsies for the county on contract. Compared with its more violent neighbors—Newark, to the north, and Atlantic City, to the south—the central New Jersey shore tends to generate uncomplicated deaths: heart disease, liver failure, sunstroke. Zadroga’s death, at the age of thirty-four, was different...
9/11’s Toxic Legacy
Regina Cervantes, Volunteer EMS Worker: “By September 14th, my airway was so burned I could barely speak. Now I have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, gastro esophageal reflux disease, chronic asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis, post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks…”
Listen to David on the plight of the First Responders in a meeting with Dennis Kucinich.
John Feal, Demolition Supervisor: “An 8-ton steel beam crushed my foot at Ground Zero. I got gangrene and almost died. I've had multiple surgeries and two amputations. Pulmonary disease? Puh-lease--everyone who worked on the pile has that-it's inescapable…”
John Sferazo, Steelworker, who now takes 26 medications a day due to Ground Zero illness: “...Now I'm lucky if I can run a city block without dropping dead…” View John in the Sierra Club film Forgotten Heroes
The 9/11 Health Crisis
Rally for 9/11 Health U.S. Capitol 2.26.08
9/11 Activist: John Feal
“I became an advocate once I realized I have a choice,” Feal declares. “I can sit around and feel sorry for myself, or I can fight back and help others." Mention politics, and John bristles: "With power, comes responsibility: as elected officials, you're elected to serve and protect. Well, 90% of our country's leaders are not serving and protecting, and 9/11 heroes are dying because of it.” Feal continues: "As a country, we took one on the chin on September 11. We got knocked down, but we bounced back up to move forward. But in the process of moving forward, we forgot what we left behind. And that's about 40,000 people that are sick and dying…”
View John in the Sierra Club film Forgotten Heroes.
View John Feal and Glen Klein’s Star Jones Interview.
View John’s 2.26.08 Fox News Interview at the Rally for 9/11 Health at the US Capitol (above).
