Funeral Is Held for Firefighter Killed by Ground Zero Toxins

Firefighters die because they run into dangerous places, and they die because they stay.

Chief Ronald R. Spadafora stayed — for nine months. His assignment was ground zero, the patch of steel and debris that a federal labor official in 2001 called “potentially the most dangerous workplace in the United States.”

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