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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

NEW YORK POST, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3,2001

FDNY vs. NYPD GHyhopes F 3fjO. ■

to boost . heroes’ i pensions I By KENNETH LOVETT £ in Albanff n •p ond MURRAY WEISS in N.y. I City officials are looking I ruW to bump up the pensions B paid to the families of B fircfightets and police of- B ficers buried in rne World B Trade Center rubble, The Post has learned. The city paid lost police ' and firefighters round- the-clock overtime for a month after the destruc­ tion of the Twin Towers. Peii&iotu foi fidleo. cops* and firefighters’ survivors are 100 percent of the final year’s pay. But under current law, - 1^1 (hat overtime could not , count toward ' survivors’ . pensions because it was paid (o the officers after - £11 their deaths on Sept. 11 ended their employment. But a bill quietly being circulated at the state cap­ ital by city officials would give the mayor the option • to incorporate the oyer- tune paid after Sept. 11, which could mean thou­ HELL NO, WE WON’T OOI Inflamed (irsfightors vent their rage near ground zero yesterday. N.Y, ^ost Bolivar Arellano' sands more a year in pen­ rI sions for the families. The legislation would also boost death benefits for civilian city workers who died in the terrorist Fed-up firefighters defend their sacred turf 4r

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attacks. foi everybody who de- . Firefighter Rich Radzie- said: "The cit/ probably around. We won’t colerate; j > While those in uniform serves a decent burial." wicz of Ladder 102 told thinks the ch effort it/ .-Cl! support better pensions ■ Lt. Phil was angry about . me: “The city is telling us is going too y. It's Carmen Suarez was*

Ri for the widows, some ex­ the city pulling firefight­ they are scaling us back about money. tearyreyed. pressed unhappiness at SIEVE ers out of ground hero. because it is hazardous "Do you think we want Her husband Ramon, a one provision of the city's proposed legislation. DUNLEI He was at the' site yes­ down there. overtime to look far bod­ cop from Transit District terday protesting a “What the hell do you ies? Are you crazy?" 4, went back into' the' The city wants to de­ clumsy call and then think we do for a job? Yes. Lt. Ciaravino; “Who ' south tower at the World duct the overtime paid to gives a s - ■ ■ about money Trade Center eight times- the tost cops and firefight- BJUflTH their fingers marched onto.City Hall to it’s hazardous. That's when (here are people’s to refeufi the desperate ers ftom benefits awarded VW they dig, they make his voice heard , what we ■ do, hazaidou&. bodies buried in there?* until millioDS of tons of. to families. heave chunks of concrete. louder. But we have to find those It is not a good day prale." Then Grammas; “1 know steel collapsed. When the towers went they claw for unsettled what they want to do. “I still say he is missing... down, the firefi^fers and souls who are in there when we have great cops There is anger and heat They want to get a couple not lost. But I want him to officers under the rubble somewhere. forced to arrest great fire­ in the ranks — which may fighters. f>Qt be easy to cooL of big construction com- be treated with respect were paid the overtime They search for fallen because (hey were consid­ "No, it wasn't a good Said firefighter Radzie- ered zzhsing b action. . day," said a senior police UdIoo members believe official who asked specifi­ cally that his name not be tttht'fih^^epart- & "S ’ the ciiy is looking to re­ coup ine money to deal frieX^M Won^X SJO r“T anyoiej'mywhere at a dis- oSmSJK’T&ody drop ^em in a^hJ^dW«< w-iih mounting budget pressures- do this, aster scene. We want to scoops and drops when he said with an^edge But a city official denied - .? said • firefighter./This order was a screw*, reclaim their bodies, civil- . we are down there. Those-.danger. that, saying that, m' the Lt. Phil Ciaravino, . . .' ‘ up in the Giuliani office Uus, firefighters, cops, ev- who are lost are Created this What m/paf^aer ; t long run, the improved “But-,we. are not just which so far has done so eryone." . ' with'great respect by uk’> ? and-thethousands of oth-'. pensions will greatly ben­ looking for cops and fire- , raagnificenily. But today? Firefighter George . "Nolwdy is allowed-to -ers deserve? Sling th^iBJ efit spouses. ' fighters, we ate looking Just stupid,* Grammas of 102 • Truck do that when we are a dump? No, no,* i "

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