The family members of non-uniformed city civil servants who die as a result of a World Trade Center condition they contracted from their service at the site or at the Fresh Kills Landfill will now be entitled to health-care coverage paid for by the city.
“We all know on 9/11, and in the days after 9/11, of the heroism of so many of our first-responders, but there are many, many who served us whose stories have not been told,” Mayor de Blasio said at a Feb. 11 bill-signing ceremony. “There are so many unsung heroes as well. Traffic Agents, who helped vehicles to move around the WTC in all that chaos in the weeks and months after.”
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