Two 9/11-Sick Cops Die
    By Larry Celona
    New York Post

    Thursday 06 September 2007

    Two more cops have died of 9/11-related lung cancer, according to their families.

    Officer Frank Macari, 51, died on Monday, after a five-year battle with the disease.

    Macari, a 13-year veteran of the force assigned to Brooklyn, developed a tumor on his leg in December 2001, after working at Ground Zero. He leaves a wife and stepdaughter.

    Officer Madeline Caro, 41, a 16-year veteran, succumbed to lung cancer in July. Carlo, assigned to the South Bronx, also spent days at the World Trade Center site. She leaves a son and daughter.

    Macari's family will file papers, as Carlo's family has done, to obtain line-of-duty benefits from the NYPD.

    Meanwhile, the sixth annual NYPD 9/11 Memorial Weekend begins tomorrow with a 1 p.m. parade in lower Manhattan, ending at the police memorial wall at Liberty Street and South End Avenue. The weekend includes a Saturday-night concert at Town Hall in honor of the NYPD's 9/11 victims. It stars tenor Ronan Tynan.

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