As a single Republican senator stops the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund from receiving funding, first responders are again grieving the loss of one of New York’s Bravest.
The Uniformed Firefighters Association announced that retired firefighter Kevin Nolan has died of 9/11-related cancer. The 58-year-old had been a member of Engine Company 79 and was among the thousands of police officers and firefighters working at Ground Zero immediately after the 2001 terror attacks.
Nolan, who lived in Rye and retired from the FDNY in 2007, leaves behind a wife and three adult children.
“Kevin is the 199th member of the FDNY to die of World Trade Center related illness,” Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said, via the New York Daily News. “So many years later, we continue to lose those who displayed such incredible bravery on that terrible day, and in the weeks that followed.”