58-year-old Kevin Nolan is the 199th member of the FDNY to pass away from a Ground Zero-related illness.

He was part of the rescue and recovery efforts that helped with the cleaned after the September 11 terror attacks in 2001.

The FDNY wrote on Twitter: “It is with Regret we announce the WTC Related Death of Retired Firefighter Kevin J. Nolan Engine Company 79. #343andcounting.”

It was in 1989 when Mr. Nolan started his career at Engine 39 on the Upper East Side. He then moved to the Bronx to Engine Company 79 before retiring in 2007.

Gerard Fitzgerald, the president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, said: “Our condolences go out to his family for the loss of this member. He is another lost victim of 911 and he will be missed.”

Mr. Nolan lived in Rye and was survived by his 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 expressed. “So many years later, we continue to lose those who displayed such incredible bravery on that terrible day, and in the weeks that followed.”

After the news of his death, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul blocked a bill that expands relief for helping 9/11 responders and their families.

He cited the country’s ‘massive debt’ as the reason why and said new spending must be offset by cutting costs.

Senate democrats then slammed the move and called it ‘political game playing.’

Fitzgerald said the move was infuriating. “We let their offices know that we have a wake on Friday and a funeral on Saturday. Others of our members are in hospice care, and still others in a terminal stage of cancer. We deal with this all the time. They are playing politics and playing games. It’s a lot of silliness.”

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