Posted on 01/08/2006 11:12:51 AM PST by saquin
A young police detective who spent nearly 500 hours sifting through rubble at Ground Zero has died of a lung disease connected to his cleanup efforts, police union officials said yesterday.
James Zadroga, 34, who died Thursday at his parents' New Jersey home, retired from the NYPD in July 2004 because of his deteriorating health. He is the first emergency worker to die from constant exposure to the Sept. 11 wreckage at the World Trade Center, said Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives' Endowment Association.
A high-ranking police source said the department does not have the medical authority to link Zadroga's death to his work at Ground Zero.
An autopsy was being done by the Ocean County, N.J., medical examiner's office.
Zadroga was inside Building 7 at the World Trade Center when it began to collapse on the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001. After narrowly escaping death, he spent nearly 500 hours over the next month and a half at the site, searching for victims amid tons of debris and dirt, Palladino said.
According to Palladino, many detectives even stayed at the site beyond their daily tours of duty, working on their own time.
Zadroga became ill about a month after returning to the Manhattan South Precinct in late 2001. He died at his parents' home in Little Egg Harbor, N.J., of black lung disease and mercury on the brain, Palladino said.
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Okay. Did that. Still seems to me like remarkably few samples were taken for a year's monitoring of a site covering 17 acres.
Interesting that so very few contaminants were found in the samples that were taken.
Makes my blood boil to see images like these and try to reconcile them with the lily-livered liberals attempts to thwart the President in this attempts to ensure it never happens again.
FRegards,
I wouldn't know the protocols, outside my AOE.
And is that why they were in Australia at the time?
Take it in perspective. If it weren't for the lily livered liberals, this wouldn't have happened.
Uh, why don't you ask nancy pelosi, howard dean, et al. that question.
Because I don't expect to hear anything sensible from them.
From Freepers however.......
FRegards,
"A high-ranking police source said the department does not have the medical authority to link Zadroga's death to his work at Ground Zero."
But Newsday will report it as such, anyway. *Rolleyes*
RIP, Buddy...from whatever you died from in the end. 34 is way too young to go, for any reason.
Maybe all the respirators became plugged with all the particulate debris floating in the air. There are specific respirators and cartridges that must be worn to filter out asbestos and other particulate contaminates. Face-Mounted Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR) Systems This type "use a single high efficiency filter for protection against dusts, fumes, mists and radionuclides." This type is "ideal for lead, asbestos and other hazardous particles." These might have worked, but I believe you need an air line to use them, which would have been ackwardly restrictive given the type of recovery and demoltion work going on. Here is another type that allows the worker more freedom of movement. Portable PAPR
Having been trained in respiratory protection, I especially noticed all the workers in the debris with their respirators hanging around their necks. I was very concerned for the long term health of their lungs. Occasionally, I'd see one or two workers wearing their respirators or masks, but there were many who didn't. The masks were far more ineffective than the respirators, but much better than nothing. The Mayor of New York held his respirator in his hand and took it off to make comments to the newsmedia. That was also unsafe. He should have had it on and left it on, even though his voice would have been very muffled when he spoke. All that being said, a dust particulate filter probably would have filtered out little or no gasified mercury that was in the air. I think a respirator specifically for Mercury would have been all that would have worked properly, but check with respirator manufacturers to be sure. Mercury Vapor or Chlorine cartridge None of this post is intended as training or advice in respiratory protection. I'm just giving my opinion.
IMO, I would say this present victim's proximity to this event (very close) at the time it occurred would have contributed immensely to any Mercury poisoning as the gas should have evaporated rather quickly. The dust would have been another story.
Given the shock that most were in after this occurred I would be the last to blame anyone for "slipping up" and not following established safety regulations. My sympathy to all. This is just one more tragedy that I think is directly contributeable to the events of 9/11. It is sad to see the lethal legacy of 9/11 claim another victim.
Lastly, 92% to 94% of industrial deaths and injuries are male, but you won't find that "oppressive" statistic in any college or university, women's studies courses that I know of. So much for all the women's studies ballyhoo about male privileges in the work place.
From Freepers however.......
And I should be silent about what from the previous proclaimations(Bush's fault) of the politically insane(pelosi, democrat party et al) will be?
Freeregards to you also.
What, you didn't get the latest memo from the New York Times? Smoking injects mercury into the brains of not only smokers, but the innocent bystanders as well. That is really why the smoke nazis are so, so, so...hysterical.
Who can blame them? And by the way, since you missed that memo, you probably missed the memo that smoking is cheifly responsible for warming the globe and freezing the Europeans; not to mention killing the polar bears.
Get with it patton. ' )
I stand corrected - thank you. ;)
Well--who's negligence is that? Even I know you are supposed to wear masks in rescue.
Out of the many pictures of rescue efforts going on I don't remember any of the pictures showing rescue personnel wearing masks. I remember the concern about the hotspots where the underground fires were still burning and I remember the concern for the paws of the rescue dogs. Just don't remember seeing any masks on anyone doing any rescue or retrieval work.
....you haven't got the sense, or the compassion, to understand a hero motivated by the deaths of hundreds of his fellow policemen and thousands of his fellow countrymen.
>>>Well--who's negligence is that?
I guess our own for participating.
>>>Even I know you are supposed to wear masks in rescue.
And you always have one handy I assume then?
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