Ground Support ; Funds Needed to Treat 9/11-Related Illnesses

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FOR YEARS, a bill has sat in Congress that would guarantee medical care to the rescue workers, volunteers and residents made ill by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The legislation is named for James Zadroga, a New York City police detective from North Arlington who volunteered more than 400 hours in the smoky remains of the World Trade Center. He later developed disabling respiratory problems and, lungs black and failing, died in 2006 at the age of 34.

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Ground Support ; Funds Needed to Treat 9/11-Related Illnesses

Zadroga is among 103 people on a different sort of victims list. Their deaths are ascribed to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but they did not die on that awful day. Th...

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