NYC says retired firefighter’s cancers are caused by drinking and not 9/11, ignores court order to provide disability pension

The city is balking at a court order to provide a retired FDNY firefighter wasting away from a 9/11-related cancer with a full disability pension, believing the former smoke eater’s lethal illness is linked to excessive drinking, not his time at Ground Zero, the Daily News has learned.

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