Luis Alvarez, a retired NYPD detective who described for Congress his 9/11-related medical issues during an impassioned appeal for an extension of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, has died at age 53.
Luis Alvarez, a retired NYPD bomb squad detective who described for Congress his 9/11-related 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.
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