Throat cancer kills WTC worker
BY MICHAEL WHITE
DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU
Tuesday, August 7th 2007, 4:00 AM
A 47-year-old Brooklyn firefighter who worked at the World Trade Center wreckage for a month after the Sept. 11 terror attacks has died of throat cancer.
Ray Hauber's relatives and colleagues believe conditions at Ground Zero might have caused the esophageal cancer that killed him Saturday morning.
Hauber, who worked for 17 years at Engine Co. 284 in Dyker Heights, had retired from the FDNY on a disability pension last year, after he was diagnosed with the cancer, friends and family said.
"He was down there with me ... and I don't know if [the cancer] was definitely caused by the Trade Center, but it didn't help," said FDNY colleague Joseph Lapolla, 38, of Staten Island.
"I think in the future, in the next 20 years, we're going to see a lot [of]these cases. He was a young guy, and a nonsmoker. He was strong as an ox, and then he was very fragile when he died."
Hauber is the second Ground Zero worker to die from esophageal cancer this year. Frederick Stuck, also of Staten Island, was a retired city deputy sheriff and Sept. 11 first responder and cleanup worker.
He was 49 when he died Jan. 9, and his family also believes conditions at Ground Zero caused his illnesses.
Reached at his New Jersey home last night, Paul Hauber, 45, described his firefighter brother as a "big kid."
"Always loved to play around. Even when he first got sick he always had a good sense of humor," he said.
The family has planned a wake for Ray Hauber today and tomorrow at Casey McCallum Rice Funeral Home, also known as the South Shore Funeral Home, at 30 Nelson Ave. on Staten Island. A funeral will be held at 10a.m. Thursday at Eltingville Lutheran Church at 300 Genesee Ave., S.I.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/08/07/2007-08-07_throat_cancer_kills_wtc_worker.html
DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU
Tuesday, August 7th 2007, 4:00 AM
A 47-year-old Brooklyn firefighter who worked at the World Trade Center wreckage for a month after the Sept. 11 terror attacks has died of throat cancer.
Ray Hauber's relatives and colleagues believe conditions at Ground Zero might have caused the esophageal cancer that killed him Saturday morning.
Hauber, who worked for 17 years at Engine Co. 284 in Dyker Heights, had retired from the FDNY on a disability pension last year, after he was diagnosed with the cancer, friends and family said.
"He was down there with me ... and I don't know if [the cancer] was definitely caused by the Trade Center, but it didn't help," said FDNY colleague Joseph Lapolla, 38, of Staten Island.
"I think in the future, in the next 20 years, we're going to see a lot [of]these cases. He was a young guy, and a nonsmoker. He was strong as an ox, and then he was very fragile when he died."
Hauber is the second Ground Zero worker to die from esophageal cancer this year. Frederick Stuck, also of Staten Island, was a retired city deputy sheriff and Sept. 11 first responder and cleanup worker.
He was 49 when he died Jan. 9, and his family also believes conditions at Ground Zero caused his illnesses.
Reached at his New Jersey home last night, Paul Hauber, 45, described his firefighter brother as a "big kid."
"Always loved to play around. Even when he first got sick he always had a good sense of humor," he said.
The family has planned a wake for Ray Hauber today and tomorrow at Casey McCallum Rice Funeral Home, also known as the South Shore Funeral Home, at 30 Nelson Ave. on Staten Island. A funeral will be held at 10a.m. Thursday at Eltingville Lutheran Church at 300 Genesee Ave., S.I.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/08/07/2007-08-07_throat_cancer_kills_wtc_worker.html
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