911 - Claims Another Officer's Life (toxic air)...

[Peter Frank]

I just posted this in LBN -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2102554

NYPD Detective James Zadroga holds his daughter, Tylerann.


<snip>Zadroga spent 470 hours sifting through the smoldering ruins.

Inhale, exhale.

Twelve-hour shifts, nearly 40 of them.

Inhale, exhale.

More than 28,000 minutes, his only protection a thin, paper mask.

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 -- though 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. Last month, the 34-year-old Zadroga finally succumbed, betrayed by his failing body.

The World Trade Center had claimed its latest fatality.<snip>

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/399425.html

EPA Misled Public on 9/11 Pollution
White House ordered false assurances on air quality

NEW YORK -- In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, the White House instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to give the public misleading information, telling New Yorkers it was safe to breathe when reliable information on air quality was not available.

That finding is included in a report released Friday by the Office of the Inspector General of the EPA. It noted that some of the agency's news releases in the weeks after the attack were softened before being released to the public: Reassuring information was added, while cautionary information was deleted.

"When the EPA made a September 18 announcement that the air was 'safe' to breathe, it did not have sufficient data and analyses to make such a blanket statement," the report says. "Furthermore, the White House Council on Environmental Quality influenced . . . the information that EPA communicated to the public through its early press releases when it convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones."<snip>

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0823-03.htm

[Peter Frank]

1. wakeup call... n/t

[jschurchin]

2. Rest in Peace Detective Zadroga.

May god watch over your family in this time of grief.
Now to the Fascist regime who caused this man's death. You owe his family an explanation as to why he passed. You also owe them compensation so his little girl does not have to worry about what her and mommy are going to eat.

Here's a suggestion, cut the executive branch's expenditure's including salaries by 20% and put the money into a fund to compensate these family's. I am sure the President can live just as well on $320,000 as he does on $400,000.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, there are going to be a LOT more death's caused by the event's that day. The responsibility, of which, lies solely at the feet of this regime.

[ClintonTyree]

3. Part of the bush "clear skies initiative".......

I think we all knew that Norton was blowing smoke out of her ass when she said the site was safe. Yet another incident of the White House placing commerce over people's health. Unfortunately, there will be many more people with life threatening breathing problems in the years to come. But hey, we had to get the stock market back up and running, what's a few lives when stock trading is in jeopardy? :sarcasm:

[fed-up]

4. His body didn't betray him, his LYING Government BETRAYED him n/t

[mcscajun]

5. This is tragic...

Two years earlier, his wife died of a heart ailment that family members blame on stress created by Zadroga's illness and battle with city bureaucrats over its cause. Their 4-year-old daughter, born shortly after her father finished work at ground zero, is the newest trade center orphan.

(snip)

The NYPD, more than three years after 9/11, finally agreed that he was suffering from pulmonary disease related to his rescue efforts. Union head Palladino said the detective had fiberglass in his lungs, and traces of mercury on his brain.

(snip)

James Zadroga died at his parents' home on Jan. 5. Although autopsy results were pending on the exact cause, union officials said he was the first city police officer whose death was linked to working at ground zero. The NYPD confirmed he was the only officer to die after reporting 9/11-related health problems.

There are others out there whose stories we'll be hearing soon, all of them betrayed by a lying government.