After helping at Ground Zero, 2 ill firefighters left out of settlement

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By Frank Main Staff Reporter/[e-mail] Dec 20, 2010 05:48AM

Arthur Noonan was one of a dozen Chicago Fire Department members who volunteered to help in the rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

But Noonan, who contracted leukemia in 2004, and firefighter Stanley Salata, who was diagnosed with respiratory problems in 2003, have been left out of a $625 million settlement to cover the health claims of more than 10,000 workers at the World Trade Center site.

Their lawyer, Matthew J. McCauley, said a judge decided their claims were filed two weeks too late and excluded them and more than 300 others from the settlement.