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Conservation Lieutenant

Paul C. Adam

New York State Environmental Conservation Police — Albany, NY

September 11, 2001 → Illness

End of Watch September 8, 2015

Age 54

Tour of Duty 30 yrs

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Gender Male

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Incident

Conservation Lieutenant Paul Adam died as the result of cancer that he developed following his assignment to the search and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.

Lieutenant Adam had served with the New York State Environmental Conservation Police for 26 years and had previously served with the New York State University Police at SUNY Oswego for four years.

September 11, 2001 - The Years After

Conservation Lieutenant Paul C. Adam was assigned to the search and recovery at the World Trade Center site after September 11, 2001. He was 41 years old that fall.

He died on September 8, 2015 - 13 years and 11 months later - of an illness contracted there. He was 54.

He is one of 600 officers honored here, and one of 5 at New York State Environmental Conservation Police.

The most recent of these deaths was October 24, 2025.

Officers who worked the search, rescue, and recovery at the World Trade Center site breathed contaminated air for weeks and months afterward. Many developed cancers and respiratory disease, and they have gone on dying of it ever since.

Seventy-two officers were killed on the morning itself. Hundreds more have died in the years that followed. They are honored here together, because the same attack killed them all. With some it simply took longer.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife, son, daughter, two brothers, and two sisters.

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Tributes

You walked into it and it took years to finish the job.
Conservation Lieutenant Adam gave 30 years.
Thank you for your service to the Albany community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Conservation Lieutenant Adam.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department New York State Environmental Conservation Police

Type Other

Location Albany, Albany County, NY

Platform Identity nyseccons.albany.ny.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 8, 2015

Tour of Duty 30 yrs

Age 54

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Cause Detail 9/11 related illness

Weapon Aircraft; Passenger jet

The Sacrifice · Illness

Paul is one of 2,028 officers lost to illness in the United States, 7.4% of the 27,552 remembered there.

34,103 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

Compare against

Time

In 2015, 34 officers in the United States were lost to illness, the 10th heaviest of 108 years on record. The heaviest was 2021, with 564.

Every year on record · United States

Who

Paul was 54. Of the 1,996 lost to illness in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 42 and 58; the middle age was 51. Paul had served 30 years; the middle length of service was 20 years.

Age at death

Where he stood among them

Age by years of service

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When

September holds 11.2% of these deaths in the United States; October holds the most, 14.9%. Tuesdays: 13.3%.

By month

By day of the week

How

Illness deaths account for 7.4% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the 3rd most common cause. The weapon recorded was aircraft; passenger jet, in 29.5% of these deaths.

Every cause

Weapons recorded