Posted on 01/18/2006 4:53:14 AM PST by Coop
NEW YORK (AP) -- James Zadroga spent 16 hours a day toiling in the World Trade Center ruins for a month, breathing in debris-choked air. Timothy Keller said he coughed up bits of gravel from his lungs after the towers fell on September 11, 2001. Felix Hernandez spent days at the site helping to search for victims.
All three men died in the past seven months of what their families and colleagues say were persistent respiratory illnesses directly caused by their work at Ground Zero.
While thousands of people who either worked at or lived near the site have reported ailments such as "trade center cough" since the terrorist attacks, some say that only now are the consequences of working at the site becoming heartbreakingly clear.
James Zadroga, seen in undated family photo with his daughter Tylerann, died January 5, 2006.
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If 9/11 has any connection to these illnesses, then I really have no sympathy for these people. The Giuliani administration made every attempt to reduce the number of recovery workers at Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11, but the police and firefighter unions fought to keep a lot of unnecessary people down there -- because the exorbitant overtime hours represented an enormous cash cow for their members.
I'd say it's a pretty darned strong argument.
I do.
I Do have sympathy fot them, and prayers.
They did a job that I would not want to do. I wonder how many bodies they helped to honorably remove from the debris of the WTCs. Thank you for the input that people who were doing a horrible job that needed to be done got what they deserved. I am sure their children will appreciate your kind sentiments. I think you can stuff it.
Prayers for these victims, and all the victims of September 11, and their families.
bingo...
the real question is how many men of comparable age in a given population died of pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, heart disease....
I've got news for some ... "we're all gonna die of something". The only question is ,"can I find a lawyer for my family to make a profit from it.".
i can just see all the little piggy lawyers lining the new "victims" up to suck on the government tit for "compensation"...this will make the asbestos tobacco,vioxx and silicon settlements small by comparison....
Beautiful.
Yeah, I'd agree with that.
Coop, we had a family member who worked on the pile for a while.
And the beams for the first thirty floors, I believe, had been coated in asbestos, so that was thick in the air.
"I'm very fearful," said Donald Faeth, an emergency medical technician and officer in a union with two of the ground zero workers who died last year.
Forgive me if I take this particular source of that info with a grain of salt.
God bless 'em for it. Has this person had any persistent respiratory problems?
Had a cough for a while, but he's been fine. You've got FReepmail :)
Almost certainly, no and no. He should have taken his body's hint. They make a world of difference when doing dirty jobs.
You have no insight into what he did or didn't do.
"The guys who worked at the WTC site in the days/weeks/months following its collapse were breathing in God-only-knows-what during that time"
God isn't the only one who knows what. It's called "asbestos".
It's called asbestos....and jet fuel vapors...and the vapors of burning materials that coated electrical wiring....and concrete "dust"....
His coughing is evidence that he did not.
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