WTC attacks claim latest victim _ four years later

[DoYouEverWonder]

January 28, 2006

NEW YORK -- For James Zadroga, dying was as simple as breathing.

The highly decorated New York police detective was heading home from work on Sept. 11, 2001, when the mind-numbing news came across his car radio: A plane had flown into the World Trade Center. He rushed back to lower Manhattan, where the twin 110-story towers had collapsed into a toxic pile of burning rubble.

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Zadroga barely avoided death when 7 World Trade Center tumbled down around him hours after the planes hit. The escape was temporary: By the time he was finished at ground zero, Zadroga was as much a Sept. 11 victim as anyone lost in the tower stairwells _ although his suffering was time-released.

His breathing became labored within weeks, his health deteriorated over months, he was on disability in just over three years. On Jan. 5, 2006, the 34-year-old Zadroga finally succumbed, betrayed by his failing body; the World Trade Center had claimed its latest fatality.


http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/ny-bc-ny--thelatestvictim0128jan28,0,2084724.story?coll=nyc-homepage-breaking2


This is the 3rd or 4th story like this since the beginning of the year. I have a bad feeling this is just the beginning.

[Divernan]

1. Cheney was the one behind lying to NYCers that the air was safe to breathe

I would bet anything that he personally made the decision to have the EPA lie about the air quality.
Based on those lethally false reports, people moved their families back into a toxic area, schools in the area reopened. We have taken the value of our federal institutions (EPA, FEMA, Departments of Education, the Interior, Mine Safety, etc.) for granted. The Bush administration has proved to us how vital these govt. watchdogs are to our health and safety, and the health and safety of our kids.

[HockeyMom]

2. Now we have the First Responders

How much longer will it be for the ordinary citizens who had to go to work or live in that area?

[Moderator]

3. Not LBN

story of this death appeared here on Jan 17th

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2046987