9/11 first responders get first Zadroga Act funds
Photo credit: Jason Decrow | Attendees listen during an information forum for the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund at Baruch College in Manhattan. (Jan. 30, 2013)
Documentary: Families remember 9/11 victims
Freedom Tower rises at Ground Zero
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Newsday's Sept. 11 front pages
Reader memories of LI's 9/11 victims
For ailing 9/11 rescue workers the evening was bittersweet as some received their first compensation checks and the group suffered its biggest death toll -- nine first responders died from cancer and respiratory diseases this month.
Wednesday, several hundred NYPD, FDNY, volunteers and lower Manhattan workers and residents attended a public forum to apply for the $2.8 billion victims compensation...
