James Zadroga (February 8, 1971 – January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 atta...
James Zadroga was a New York police detective who worked for hundreds of hours on the smoldering pile at ground zero after the Sept. 11 attacks, and whose subsequent death led to a fierce public de...
The father of James Zadroga — the first cop whose death was attributed to working at Ground Zero after 9/11 — pressed Congress on Monday to reauthorize the law that funds treatment for first respon...
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WASHINGTON — The chronically ill heroes of 9/11 and their families received a long-overdue lifetime of health benefits Friday after a contentious congressional fight. The House and Senate both voted to extend the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act — giving coverage to those afflicted with Ground Zero-related health woes for the next 75 years. “It’s a very good day,” said Joseph Zadroga (inset below), whose detective son James died in January 2006 from health woes caused by his ti...
[1] He was the father of James Zadroga, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and...
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Editorial: Mayor Bloomberg began to set the record straight yesterday regarding Detective James Zadroga, offering well-deserved private and public apologies for his hurtful comments of last week.
The father of James Zadroga called on politicians to extend the landmark bill named after his fallen 9/11 first-responder son.
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 (H.R. 847; Pub. L. 111–347 (text) (PDF)) is a U.S. law to provide health monitoring and aid to the first responders, volunteers, and survivors of the September 11 attacks. It is named after James Zadroga, a New York Police Departm...