In memory of

Gary A. Nybro

1965 2023
The Years AfterApril 4, 2023

Died of it afterward.

United States of America

Their life

On April 4, 2023, the FDNY lost another beloved member to September 11- related illness with the passing of Captain Gary A. Nybro. Gary was born on October 13, 1965, to FDNY Lt. Ray Nybro and his wife, Rose, the middle of their three children. He was a graduate of Tottenville High School, Class of 1983. He received a bachelor’s degree in accounting and later a master’s degree in finance, both from St. John’s University, Staten Island campus. It was there he met and later married his college sweetheart, Sara. They later moved to Rockland County and raised two children, Erik and Emily, with their loving dog, Mara. As a child, Gary often visited his father’s firehouse and enjoyed many years as a member of Los Bomberos firemen camp in Accord, New York. After probie school, he was assigned to Ladder 9 with his father’s badge. He was promoted to lieutenant at Engine 40 and to captain five years later at Engine 166. Throughout his 28 years of service, he received many commendations for heroic efforts and saving lives. Extremely athletic, Gary played baseball for South Shore Little League, Babe Ruth League and the Men’s Softball team. He passed his love of baseball to his son, Erik, coaching the West Nyack Little League until he was 16. He loved the Yankees and often attended games with his son, dad, and brother. Gary enjoyed many years of travel and quality time with his family. He visited all 50 states, enjoying the many beautiful National Parks this country has to offer. He retired from Ladder 166 and often spent time chatting with the neighbors, entertaining friends, and working in the yard. He kept

a meticulous home and loved to host a party. Shortly before his diagnosis, Gary purchased his retirement home in Naples, Florida, with lifelong friends. He enjoyed a two-week stay there before succumbing to 9-11-related cancer. A devoted father, husband, brother, uncle, and son, his absence is felt by many. He was a kind, honorable man who was a dedicated captain, lieutenant, and firefighter. The firehouse was his second home, and his brothers were his family. He served in the rescue and recovery efforts after 9/11 and succumbed to throat cancer on April 4, 2023. There is not a moment in the day that he is not missed and remembered fondly.

How they died

Captain of the Fire Department of the City of New York, who died of an illness from the rescue and recovery at the World Trade Center. The department added the name to its World Trade Center Memorial Wall at the ceremony of 06 September 2023. He died on 04 April 2023, aged 57.

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.

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September 11, 2001

September 11, 2001

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.

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