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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
9/11 Health Now: Our Mission
Dedicated to health, hope and healing within the 9/11 Community.
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.
FDNY Responder John MacNamara on living with World Trade Center cancer.
(Photo and Video clip: Allan Tannenbaum)
“...The mix of chemicals is very complex... in concentrations that were very high... in a mixture that’s previously never been encoutered...”
Hear More WTC Site Worker Testimonies
‘..We know that the exposures included a potent mix of carcinogens...’
Voices of 9/11: Community Members Speak Out on How 9/11 has Affected Their Lives & Health
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.)
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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
On September 11, 2001, tens of thousands of Americans converged on New York City's World Trade Center site in one of the most impassioned rescue and recovery efforts in the history of the country. Unbeknownst to these American patriots, the conditions at Ground Zero--in spite of Federal and State warnings to the contrary--were exceedingly toxic: hundreds of contaminants, including asbestos, lead, mercury and benzene--to name a few-were present in unprecedentedly high levels, both within the billowing dust cloud that settled over Lower Manhattan and the surrounding areas, and in the emissions from the pit that smoldered for months afterward during the cleanup. Read More...
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).
