Feds Agree to Recognize Fallen 9/11 EMT

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Feds Agree to Recognize Fallen 9/11 EMT

Tuesday January 15, 2008 7:46 PM

By DAVID B. CARUSO

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - After a five-year fight, the U.S. government
has dropped its effort to prevent a volunteer firefighter killed
at the World Trade Center from receiving a federal death benefit
for public safety officers who die on the job.

The decision is a belated victory for the family of Glenn Winuk,
a longtime member of the Jericho Volunteer Fire Department who
rushed to the burning towers on Sept. 11, 2001, to tend to
victims of the terrorist attack.

Winuk, 40, was working at his Manhattan law office the morning
of the attacks, but he grabbed a medical bag and raced to pitch
in with the rescue effort. He died when the skyscrapers
collapsed; when his body was found in the rubble, months later,
he was wearing surgical gloves and a stethoscope.

The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Assistance fought his
family's effort to collect a $250,000 payment due to police
officers, firefighters and other government emergency workers
killed in the line of duty.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7227959,00.html

[sakabatou]

1. Took 'em about 6 years

What assholes...

:grr:

[aquart]

2. Unfuckingbelievable.

"He was wearing surgical gloves and a stethoscope." How those bastards dared...

[Javaman]

3. Damn, he was from my old neighborhood. didn't know that. :( nt