9/11 first responder Luis Alvarez dies at 53, from complications sustained at ground zero. This month, he got a standing ovation for his emotional appeal to Congress
Luis Alvarez, a retired NYPD bomb squad detective who described for Congress his medical issues during an impassioned appeal for an extension of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, died Saturday in a hospice in New York. He was 53.
His death from complications of cancer linked to the time he spent with other first responders in the rubble at ground zero was announced in a Facebook statement from his family.Luis Alvarez"We told him at the end that he had won this battle by the many lives he had touched by sharing his three year battle," the statement said."He was at peace with that, surrounded by family. Thank you for giving us this time we have had with him, it was a blessing.
— Commissioner O'Neill June 29, 2019 Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said of Alvarez:"He exemplified the NYPD motto,"Fidelis Ad Mortem" or"Faithful Unto Death." Detective Lou Alvarez has lost his battle with 9/11-related cancer. An inspiration, a warrior, a friend—we will carry his sword."House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, said via Twitter,"Det.
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