A funeral will be held Wednesday for former NYPD detective and 9/11 compensation advocate Luis Alvarez.
Detective Luis Alvarez appeared with former"Daily Show" host Jon Stewart last month to plead with Congress to extend the compensation fund.
Alvarez, who died Saturday of colorectal cancer, was admitted to a hospice within days of his testimony.Alvarez spent three months in the World Trade Center rubble after the 2001 attacks. Researchers continue to study potential links between responders' illnesses and toxins from the cleanup. The bill to replenish the fund that provides compensation to those responders passed a congressional committee unanimously.This story has been corrected to reflect that"Victim" in the proper name"Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund" is singular, not plural.
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