Steven Bonano, 9/11 police chief, dies at 53 from suspected Ground Zero-tied blood cancer

Steven Bonano, 53, a New York Police Department chief who headed up the agency’s elite Emergency Service Unit — and who was among the first on the scene at the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the Twin Towers — died from a blood cancer that was believed tied to his service at Ground Zero.

Officials said he was surrounded by family and friends at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center when he died, the Daily Mail reported.

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