Dennis Frederick is going to court to prove that a dog has saved his life. The retired Port Authority police sergeant became an emotional and physical wreck after a 22-year career that started with the shooting death of his first partner and ended on 9/11 at the World Trade Center, where he helped evacuate hundreds and narrowly escaped the towers while seven cops on his team perished. More.
9/11 hero with PTSD fights to keep his service dog
Brian Ahr, FDNY firefighter, 9/11 and Flight 587 first responder, dies at 49
Brian K. Ahr, 49, a former West Brighton resident, retired FDNY firefighter, master carpenter and steadfast family man, died Thursday at his home in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Mr. Ahr was a first responder at Ground Zero on Sept. 11, 2001, as well as to the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in the Rockaways, Queens, on Nov. 1 of that year. More.
This Hero Was a 9/11 Responder at Ground Zero, But Now He’s the One Who Needs Rescuing
U.S. Army Combat Medic Garrett Goodwin responded at both Ground Zero and the Pentagon after the 9/11 terror attacks. He even helped save the life of a baby who stopped breathing on flight from Tampa to Phoenix last year. However, now Goodwin is the one in need of rescuing. More.
Archdiocese of New York looks to help immigrant workers, volunteers who became ill after working at Ground Zero
Immigrants who got sick after working at Ground Zero and have inadequate health insurance could get some help from the Archdiocese of New York, according to newly filed court documents. The Archdiocese is asking a state judge permission to use $1.3 million that it raised in scholarship money for the children of 9/11 victims to be given to Catholic Charities. More.
US defense department eyes Colorado prisons to hold Guantánamo detainees
A team from the US Defense Department’s policy shop will spend three days this week in Colorado to determine if two prisons in the state might indefinitely hold dozens of Guantánamo detainees. More.
Retired detective dies from 9/11-related illness
Retired Detective Ronald Richards, 45, of the NYPD bomb squad, died Sunday after a long, 9/11-related illness. Richards was assigned to Emergency Service Truck 5 in Staten Island on 9/11 and he responded when the planes struck the World Trade Center. More.
Cancer rate for Ground Zero cops 50 percent higher than pre-9/11
NYPD cops who worked at Ground Zero after 9/11 had 50 percent more cancer diagnoses than officers did in the years before the terror attacks, a long-awaited study has found. The NYPD’s 20-year study - the largest ever of cancer among police officers - was distributed internally by the department’s chief surgeon Thursday and obtained exclusively by The Post. More.
Founded in Mass., National Depression Screening Day turns 25
Two Boston University students skipped their lunch date last fall after reading an email blast that encouraged students to attend a “depression screening” on campus. The boy didn’t want to go, but his girlfriend encouraged him, promising that she would come with him. There the boy learned that he showed symptoms “highly consistent with depression,” the girl told Dori Hutchinson, director of BU’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation.