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NEW YORK, APRIL 12: A police detective died and thousands of others, who worked to find the dead in the debris of the World Trade Centre following the 9/11 terror strike, are believed to be fighting serious respiratory ailments from inhaling a cocktail of toxic chemicals at the site.
The 34-year-old police detective became the first officer to die as a direct result of inhalation of the toxic chemicals as he worked in the debris of the twin towers which collapsed under the 2001 terror attack.
The thousands of security officers, volunteers, fire fighters and labourers who worked on the site and were hailed heroes at that time, are reportedly fighting serious respiratory ailments and their complication alone. One report described as the ‘walking dead’.
The detective, James Zadroga, worked for 470 hours sifting ruins wearing a paper mask which apparently was no match for the deadly chemical including asbestos.
"It is felt with a reasonable degree of medical certainty that the cause of death in this case was directly related to the 9/11 incident," Gerard Breton, a pathologist at the Ocean County medical examiner’s office, wrote in the February 28 autopsy report. Zadroga had died on January 6.
The coroner found material ‘consistent with dust’ in Zadroga’s lungs and damage to his liver and said his heart and spleen were enlarged.
CBS television network reported that though estimates vary, tens of thousands of workers and residents have reported some lingering effects and of around 70,000 people enrolled in Mount Sinai’s World Trade Center health study, more than 60,000 suffer some kind of respiratory problem.
Dr. David Prezant, co-director of the New York Fire Department’s World Trade Center medical programme, conducted a lung function study of 13,000 fire-fighters, emergency workers and paramedics. He was quoted by CBS as saying that after September 11, the average breathing capacity of the people tested dropped more than 11 times the normal ageing process.
The development is worrying for the planners of emergency response who are not sure whether they would be able to find enough volunteers in any future emergency.
Within four months of the attack, Zadroga was bed-ridden and tethered to an oxygen tank. He moved to Florida where his wife died on 2004 of heart ailment at the age of 29.
He leaves behind a four-year old daughter who is being looked after by grandparents who appeared at news conference yesterday along with half a dozen others who too were said to be suffering from similar disease.
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13 April 2006, 08:32
Hey all of the so called hero’s of 9-11 that were there police, fire dept. ect. They were all LOOTING the so called hallow grounds there. ATM machines , jewlery off the jumpers. Now they are starting to drop dead kinda like all the private contracters who are going to Iraq will be. You go there to line your pockets you come back hopefully full of DU poison. Who said there no such thing as karma.
13 April 2006, 19:49
Your comment is the biggest pile of steaming crap I’ve read all morning, and so far, I’ve read a lot. What interest do you serve, and how much do they pay you? The disinfo brigade is on the march, as usual, and their crap is stinking up my airwaves.