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| How NY Honors the Dead; James Zadroga | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 12 2008, 08:34 PM (185 Views) | |
| mynameis | Apr 12 2008, 08:34 PM Post #1 |
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Detective James Zadroga New York City Police Department New York End of Watch: Friday, January 6, 2006 Biographical Info Age: 34 Tour of Duty: 13 years Badge Number: 6663 Incident Details Cause of Death: 9/11 related illness Date of Incident: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Weapon Used: Aircraft; Passenger jet Suspect Info: 19 suicide attackers Detective James Zadroga died of a respiratory disease he contracted during rescue and recovery operations at the site of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Detective Zadroga had responded to the World Trade Center immediately following the attack and began providing assistance. He was inside 7 World Trade Center as it began to collapse, but was able to escape. In the weeks following the attack, Detective Zadroga spent over 470 hours digging through debris and inhaling the noxious gases and fumes present around the Ground Zero area. Shortly after finishing his rescue and recovery work at the World Trade Center, Detective Zadroga developed a chronic cough, shortness of breath, acid reflux, and was plagued by headaches. Within months he required oxygen tanks to breathe as well as other medicines to slow the deterioration of his health. His condition continued to worsen and Detective Zadroga was granted a 75% pay disability pension on November 1, 2004. Detective Zadroga died on January 6, 2006, as a result of respiratory disease, black lung disease, and mercury on the brain. His death was directly linked to his work at Ground Zero. Detective Zadroga had served with the New York City Police Department for 13 years, and was assigned to the Manhattan South Homicide Task Force. He is survived by his 4-year-old daughter and his parents. 72 officers from a total of eight local, state, and federal agencies were killed when terrorist hijackers working for the al Qaeda terrorist network, headed by Osama bin Laden, crashed two of four hijacked planes into the World Trade Center towers in New York City on the morning of September 11, 2001. After the impact of the first plane, putting the safety of others before their own, law enforcement officers along with fire and EMS personnel, rushed to the burning Twin Towers of the World Trade Center to aid the victims and lead them to safety. Due to their quick actions, it is estimated that over 25,000 people were saved. As the evacuation continued, the first tower unexpectedly collapsed due as a result of the intense fire caused by the impact. The second tower collapsed a short time later. 71 law enforcement officers, 343 members of the New York City Fire Department and over 2,800 civilians were killed at the World Trade Center site. A third hijacked plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania when the passengers attempted to re-take control of the plane. One law enforcement officer, who was a passenger on the plane, was killed in that crash. The fourth hijacked plane was crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, killing almost 200 military and civilian personnel. No law enforcement officers were killed at the Pentagon. The terrorist attacks resulted in the declaration of war against the Taliban regime, the illegal rulers of Afghanistan, and the al Qaeda terrorist network which also was based in Afghanistan. On September 9, 2005, all of the public safety officers killed on September 11, 2001, were posthumously awarded the 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor by President George W. Bush. The contamination in the air at the World Trade Center site caused many rescue personnel to become extremely ill, and eventually led to the death of several rescue workers. Please click here to visit the memorials of all of the law enforcement officers killed in this terrorist attack. http://www.odmp.org/911.php New York detective's January death linked to 9/11 cleanup NEW YORK (CNN) -- The death of a New York City police officer who cleaned Ground Zero after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is the first fatality "directly related" to exposure to the site, the Ocean County, N.J., medical examiner's office said Wednesday. Det. James Zadroga, 34, died Jan. 5 from respiratory failure due to a "history of exposure to toxic fumes and dusts," said coroner Gerard Breton's autopsy report, which was provided to CNN by Joseph Zadroga, the victim's father. Breton confirmed the findings of the autopsy on Wednesday, saying that the discovery of foreign materials "consistent with dust" in Zadroga's lungs led him to his conclusion. "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," Breton wrote in the Feb. 28 report, which was originally requested by the Ocean County Prosecutor's office. During the two weeks after the attacks, Zadroga worked 450 hours at the World Trade Center site cleaning up debris. (Posted 7:18 p.m.) http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/12/wednesday/index.html Coroner says hero James Zadroga didn't die from WTC dust Friday, October 19th 2007, 4:00 AM the city medical examiner has concluded that police detective, James Zadroga, did not die from inhaling dust at Ground Zero. the city medical examiner has concluded that police detective, James Zadroga, did not die from inhaling dust at Ground Zero. In a stunning contradiction, the city medical examiner has concluded that a police detective did not die from inhaling dust at Ground Zero. In a letter sent this week to the parents of Detective James Zadroga, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch rejected all opinions and analysis that linked the officer's death to his work at the World Trade Center following 9/11. "It is our unequivocal opinion, with certainty beyond doubt, that the foreign material in your son's lungs did not get there as the result of inhaling dust at the World Trade Center or elsewhere," Hirsch wrote in the letter, which also was signed by city Medical Examiner Michele Slone. Zadroga, 34, died Jan. 5, 2006, at his parents' home in Little Egg Harbor, N.J., from pulmonary disease and respiratory failure. In an autopsy report, Dr. Gerard Breton, a pathologist at the Ocean County, N.J., medical examiner's office, linked Zadroga's death to more than 400 hours he spent at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the terror attacks. Zadroga's death prompted state lawmakers in New York to pass a bill awarding accidental-death benefits to relatives of Ground Zero responders who contracted deadly illnesses after being exposed to toxins at the attack site. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/19/2007-10-19_coroner_says_hero_james_zadroga_didnt_di-3.html Mayor Bloomberg says WTC cop James Zadroga 'not a hero' BY ADAM LISBERG in Boston and BILL HUTCHINSON in New York DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 4:00 AM Mayor Bloomberg said Monday a police detective who died of lung disease after working hundreds of hours at Ground Zero was "not a hero." Accepting an award from the Harvard School of Public Health, the mayor defended the city medical examiner's conclusion that Detective James Zadroga died of drug abuse. "Our chief medical examiner believes that the deceased was using some of his drugs in a manner for recreational drugs," Bloomberg said. Bloomberg said that instead of taking his medications orally, Zadroga "was injecting them into his veins - a common practice, I gather." "Nobody wanted to hear that," Bloomberg said. "We wanted to have a hero. There are plenty of heroes. It's just in this case, the science says this was not a hero." Zadroga's father was shocked. "For Bloomberg to say that he's not a hero, that is a disgrace," Joseph Zadroga said. "Why is he trying to malign my son and deny that Jimmy is a hero." James Zadroga worked 450 hours at Ground Zero. He died in January 2006. A first autopsy concluded the 34-year-old cop's respiratory problems were caused by toxins from the attack site. Hoping to add their son's name to the official list of 9/11 victims, the Zadroga family also asked the New York City medical examiner to review the case. Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch concluded that Zadroga injected crushed prescription pills into his bloodstream, which scarred his lungs. Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives' Endowment Association, said he was "shocked by Mayor Bloomberg's insensitive comments." "I always assumed that Dr. Hirsch's findings were politically motivated," he said. "Now I'm positive." Palladino bristled at the mayor saying Zadroga was not a hero. "Mr. Mayor, every doctor that ever examined Detective Zadroga in life and in death deemed him a hero, and Dr. Hirsch only examined a slide," Palladino said. Joseph Zadroga insisted his son never injected the drugs. "To me he still is a hero," he said. "For him [Bloomberg] to say that about my son is totally disgraceful. I would like to meet him ... and have him say that to Jimmy's 6-year-old daughter's face." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/30/2007-10-30_mayor_bloomberg_says_wtc_cop_james_zadro-2.html Misuse of pills killed 9/11 officer, doctor says Ruling: Detective's lung disease not caused by dust from ground zero AP file The New York City medical examiner has determined that retired police detective James Zadroga's death was caused by a misuse of prescription pills, not dust from ground zero. NEW YORK - The city's medical examiner concluded that the misuse of pills, not the dust of ground zero, caused the lung disease that killed a man who became a nationally known example of post-Sept. 11 illness, the examiner's spokeswoman confirmed Thursday. Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch concluded that retired police detective James Zadroga got the lung disease that killed him by injecting ground-up pills into his bloodstream, leaving traces of the pills in the lung tissue, spokeswoman Ellen Borakove told The Associated Press. "It is our opinion that that material entered his body via the bloodstream and not via the airways," she said. Story continues below ↓advertisement She confirmed Hirsch's findings after Zadroga's father and lawyer said Hirsch told them Zadroga's death was caused by the misuse of prescription drugs — not the more than 450 hours he spent toiling at the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 attacks. A New Jersey medical examiner had ruled last year that Zadroga died from inhaling toxic ground zero dust, but the family asked Hirsch for a second opinion — and a ruling that would add Zadroga to the official Sept. 11 victims' list. Last week Hirsch wrote a letter to Zadroga's father, Joseph, saying he believed "with certainty beyond doubt" that the dust did not cause his son's death, but Hirsch's conclusions about the real cause were not released by his office until Thursday. His office did not say what drug or drugs were injected. Joseph Zadroga said the former detective was taking more than a dozen medications when he died, including anti-anxiety medicine and painkillers including OxyContin, but never ground up pills and injected them. He said he kept his son's medication locked in a safe in their New Jersey home and said his son was not capable of taking medicine himself. "His mother and I were taking care of him," Joseph Zadroga said. "He wasn't ever able to correctly take his medication." Michael Baden, a pathologist asked by the family to review the case after getting Hirsch's letter, said that slides of James Zadroga's lung tissue showed large glass fibers and other foreign particles that were mostly close to the airways, a sign of material that had been inhaled. He said that if Zadroga had been grinding down pills and injecting them, his autopsy report would have noted scars and needle tracks on his arms. "You can't make a diagnosis, in my opinion, of intravenous injections of ground-down pills on the basis of these slides," said Baden, the chief forensic pathologist for the New York State police. He has often testified as an expert witness at high-profile trials. After James Zadroga died in January 2006, bills were named after him in Congress to fund research and treatment for those who became ill after working in the smoking ruins of the trade center. So far, Hirsch has changed the death certificate of only one person — a woman who died five months after the attacks — saying that exposure to the toxic dust cloud caused or worsened her lung disease. http://207.46.245.33/id/21474702/ Edited by mynameis, Apr 12 2008, 08:37 PM.
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| Avenger | Apr 13 2008, 12:30 AM Post #2 |
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Mayor Bloomberg said this in October of 2007? Was there any kind of backlash from this? He should've been run out of town. |
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| Christophera | May 5 2008, 02:52 AM Post #3 |
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That is sick. The coroner medical examiners conspiring with the perpetrators to limit liability and maximize profits, absolutely sick. I can actually explain how all that superfine dust was created. Built to demolish with engineered explosive concrete containers. Twin Tower Deception and Demolition I Twin Tower Deception and Demolition II Edited by Christophera, May 5 2008, 02:54 AM.
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| SPreston | May 5 2008, 07:59 AM Post #4 |
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Money. Always the bottom line with a fatcat corrupt SOB politician like Mayor Bloomberg. They will always LIE for money. Adding the name of HERO Detective James Zadroga to the list of official casualties of 9-11 would have set a precedent, rightfully opening up more lawsuits against the corrupt city of New York. New York deserves to be bankrupted with their lies and deliberately risking the health of all residents and visitors. The government loyalists are likely dancing in joy over this unethical decision by a corrupt politician. What the hell is wrong with New Yorkers allowing these sonofabitches Mayor Michael Bloomberg and ME Charles Hirsch to publicly mock them? New Yorkers if they had any balls should have run these bastards up on the end of a rope. What a disgrace to America. Our founding fathers are rolling over in their graves in shame. You cowards. Do something for heaven's sake.
There. Bloomberg and Hirsch are proven liars for filthy profit. To save money, they would dirty the name of a good man who risked his life for others. Quick. Somebody lynch the lousy SOBs and let's make an example out of these filthy politicians. Lying cowards.   Edited by SPreston, May 5 2008, 08:01 AM.
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