If passed, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act would provide $10 billion for medical care for hundreds of first responders who have since become ill, although officially the illnesses have never been linked to the World Trade Center collapse.

The act is named after a New York City Police Department detective who died from his post-9/11 ailments.

“Unfortunately, it’s just going to happen more and more…I hope next week there isn’t four,” regretted Stephen Grossman.

To better illustrate the pattern, the newspaper noted that firefighter John McNamara, also 44, had died of cancer last month.

“These three deaths are proof that we need this bill passed today $#0151; not a year from now,” said John Feal, founder of the FealGood Foundation.

“How do you get this high cluster of serious cancer in just people that worked the pile?” he said. “That isn’t a coincidence.”

so sad