9/11 First Responder Gives Final Interview from Hospice Bed: 'I Have My Family Surrounding Me'

Alvarez, 53, spent three months at Ground Zero after the attacks and has very little time left,according to Fox News. “I’m doing well. I’m comfortable, I’m not in a lot of pain and I have my family surrounding me,” he told the outlet. “I’m at peace.” When Alvarez went for his last — and 69th — round of chemotherapy, the nurse noticed he was disoriented. He didn’t know the date or the hospital he was at and couldn’t answer simple questions like what year it was.

9/11 First Responder Luis Alvarez Has 69th Round of Chemo After Testimony with Jon Stewart

Luis Alvarez.Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Update: Alvarez later revealed when he arrived for his 69th round of chemo, doctors discovered his liver had completely shut down. He was then placed in hospice care. WhenJon Stewartgave an impassioned speech last weekurging lawmakersto reauthorize funding for theSeptember 11th Victim Compensation Fund, one of the retired first responders who accompanied him was Luis Alvarez, a former bomb-squad detective for the New York Police Department.

9/11 First Responder Luis Alvarez, 53, Dies of Cancer Weeks After Testifying with Jon Stewart

Luis Alvarez.Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Luis Alvarez, who wasdiagnosed with a 9/11-linked cancerand became an outspoken advocate for the thousands of other first responders coping with illnesses related to the attacks, has died just weeks after he testified before lawmakers with comedianJon Stewart. He was 53. Alvarez’s family announced his death in aFacebook poston Saturday. “It is with peace and comfort, that the Alvarez family announce that Luis (Lou) Alvarez, our warrior, has gone home to our Good Lord in heaven today,” they wrote.

9/11 First Responder Luis Alvarez, Who Testified with Jon Stewart, Is Now in Hospice Care

Luis Alvarez.Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Luis Alvarez, whorecently made an impassioned plea to lawmakersto push for reauthorizing funding for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, is now in hospice care after a years-long battle with a 9/11-linked cancer. The former U.S. Marine and bomb-squad detective for the New York Police Department appeared before Congress alongside comedianJon Stewarton June 11, where he revealed he had undergone 68 rounds of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2016.

9/11 First Responder Who Lost Brother in Attacks Issues 'Desperate' Plea for a Kidney Donation

Photo: The Carl Vincent Bini Memorial FundSal Esposito became a hero when he rushed to lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001 to help as a first responder immediately following the terror attacks on the World Trade Center.Now, he’s on the hunt for a hero of his own.Esposito, 62, is suffering from kidney failure, and currently spends three days a week, three and a half hours a day on dialysis, theStaten Island Advancereported.