ICYMI: Over $40K Raised For 9/11 First Responder With Cancer

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared last week in Babylon Patch:

LONG ISLAND, NY — The community is coming together to help a first responder as he battles with a 9/11-related cancer. Babylon resident Terence Connelly, who worked as police officer in Queens at the time of the terrorist attack in 2001 and was present when the tower collapsed, was diagnosed nearly 20 years after the attack. Just last month, hewas diagnosed with high grade glioblastoma, which was result of the chemical exposure at the scene that day.

His friend Elizabeth Weiburg, who works with Connelly's wife Jennifer Connelly at the U.S. probation department, wanted to find a way to help the family. The couple, who have been married for 17 years, have three kids, including one who they adopted from South Korea nearly two years.

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