Jon Stewart and Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney stand with other attendees as the hearst carrying former NYPD Detective and 9/11 first responder, Luis Alvarez passes during his funeral service in ...

The casket of retired NYPD detective Luis Alvarez is brought out of Immaculate Conception Church on Wed., July 3, 2019. Getty Alvarez is survived by his parents, wife, three sons and three siblings.

Luis Alvarez, a retired NYPD bomb squad detective who dedicated his final years fighting for compensation to individuals with health problems related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was mourned ...

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 ...

Alvarez, a 53-year-old former detective, became a face of the ongoing trauma suffered by ailing first-responders, who have been championed by comedian-turned-activist Jon Stewart.

Luis Alvarez fought for 9/11 first responders until the very end. He has died at 53. June 29, 2019. Less than three weeks before he died, 9/11 responder Luis Alvarez spoke to members of Congress ...

Luis Alvarez, a former U.S. Marine and bomb-squad detective for the New York Police Department, was diagnosed with a 9/11-linked cancer in 2016.

Luis Alvarez, the NYPD detective who used his final days to plead with Congress for more benefits for 9/11 first responders, has died, his family said Saturday. "It is with peace and comfort, that ...

Officials in New York renamed a local park Tuesday in honor of deceased former New York Police Det. Luis Alvarez, who became the face of struggling 9/11 first responders after became afflicted ...

Luis G. Alvarez, a former New York City detective who pleaded with Congress this month to extend health benefits to police officers, firefighters and other emergency workers who responded to the ...

Luis Alvarez, center, after his testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee on June 11, 2019. Getty "I wound up getting $15,000," McLean said. "And people in the past who ...