"William Lopez thought he would never see a prized plaque from his 9/11 experience again. The wooden plaque features a photo encased in plexiglass of Firefighter Paul Finochiaro of Ladder Company 78, embracing a civilian at the debris-strewn World Trade Center site on 9/11. Next to the photo is a likeness of the Twin Towers made of twisted steel that firefighters recovered and fabricated from the deadly collapse that killed 2,996 people that day."
"The acrimony was so bad that his brother-in-law (whose name we are withholding for privacy) began throwing Lopez's property in the trash including his life's work of photo negatives and the plaque. After his brother-in-law fatally shot himself in that same apartment about three years ago, Lopez scoured the inside of the dwelling but did not find the prized icon."
William C. Lopez regained a wooden plaque and photo linked to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The plaque contains a plexiglass-encased photo of Firefighter Paul Finochiaro embracing a civilian and a Twin Towers likeness fabricated from twisted recovery steel. Lopez took the photograph at Ground Zero as a young photojournalist. The plaque was presented to Lopez and 20 other news photographers at the Bolivar Arellano Gallery 9/11 exhibit and a fundraiser that raised more than $50,000 for first responders. Lopez experienced a falling out with a mentally ill brother-in-law who seized his Park Slope apartment and discarded his negatives and the plaque. After the brother-in-law fatally shot himself about three years ago, Lopez searched the apartment but did not find the prized icon.
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