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Detective Luis Alvarez 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.
Detective Alvarez was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and had served with the NYPD for 20 years.
His story
Luis G. Alvarez, a former United States Marine, joined the New York City Police Department on 15 October 1990. He was promoted to detective on 30 March 1995, to second grade on 29 June 2000 and to first grade on 27 September 2002. He was a member of the Bomb Squad, which played a central part in the rescue and recovery after the attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001.
Detective Alvarez developed cancers and other illnesses from that work and retired because of them on 15 October 2010. He lived with cancer for many years. In the last months of his life he testified before the United States Congress, urging renewal of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. He died on 29 June 2019, and his death was ruled in the line of duty. The law that then extended and fully funded the original act was named the Never Forget the Heroes: James Zadroga, Ray Pfeifer, and Luis Alvarez Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act.
He was survived by his wife, his children and other family members. In his honor, a street was renamed at 50th Avenue and Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City, a memorial park was dedicated on Terrell Avenue in Oceanside, New York, and an NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau K-9 was named after him.
Survived by
He is survived by his wife, three sons, parents, and three siblings.
The Years After
September 11, 2001
For eight months after the towers came down, men and women worked the site. Firefighters, police, paramedics, iron workers, truck drivers, cleaners, volunteers. They breathed what was in that air, and many of them have died of it since - cancers, lung disease, illnesses that took ten years or twenty to arrive.
More people have now died of September 11th than were killed on September 11th. They are not a footnote to the day. They are the day, arriving late.
A man who walked down eighty flights and out into the street, and who died of a cancer in 2031, was killed by the same attack as the man who never got out. This gate holds them together, because the same morning took them both.
On a clear Tuesday morning, four airliners were taken. Two were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the western face of the Pentagon, and one came down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers and crew went forward at the cockpit door.
Two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven people were killed. Three hundred and forty-three were firefighters of the New York City Fire Department. Seventy-one were law enforcement officers. Eight were paramedics and emergency medical technicians. One hundred and twenty-five died at the Pentagon, military and civilian together. The rest - some two thousand four hundred of them - had gone to work, or boarded a plane, and belonged to no service at all.
None of them began that morning as heroes. A great many of them ended it as heroes: men and women who carried strangers down stairwells, who stayed with people who could not walk, who held a door, who went back up. Four men on a flight over Pennsylvania, who had thirty minutes of telephone calls and knew what had already happened, decided where their aircraft would come down.
At Arlington, the nation set aside its own rules of eligibility and buried the Pentagon's civilian dead in national ground. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.
