Brooklyn Responder Prepares for Surgery As Experts Debate 9/11 Zadroga Law
By Cynthia Magnus
Special to Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — Bedford-Stuyvesant resident Daniel Moynihan lives with the effects of 9/11 toxic dust exposure and currently suffers from a benign though rare brain tumor that requires surgery.
On September 11, 2001, Moynihan, a Marine Corps veteran, was a volunteer firefighter in Freeport, L.I., with 18 years experience. He was at work driving a truck in lower Manhattan when the first plane struck the World Trade Center. He immediately went to Ground Zero, where he spent the next 12 hours. He was taken to Long Island College Hospital later that day to be treated for smoke inhalation, dehydration and heat exhaustion.