**FILE PHOTO** New York firefighters and police officers stand amidst the wreckage of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001. A settlement of up to $657.5 million has been reached in the cases of thousands of rescue and cleanup workers at ground zero who sued the city over damage to their health, New York City officials said Thursday, March 11, 2010. (Angel Franco/The New York Times)