Authorities retesting human remains recovered from the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 attacks have identified those of a 43-year-old woman. 
 
 A spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner's office says the woman's name won't be released at her family's request. 
 
 Some 2,750 people died at the World Trade Center in the 2001 terrorist attacks. Friday's announcement brings the number of identified victims up to 1,636. 
 
 The identification was made from remains collected before May 2002. The last time a person was identified from the original remains recovered at the site had been in October. ||||| Firefighter Jeffrey Walz of Tuckahoe ID'd in World Trade Center remains (video) 
 
 Nearly 12 years after he was killed at the World Trade Center, Jeffrey Walz's remains are heading home. 
 
 A link to this page will be included in your message. ||||| STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Nearly a dozen years after he was killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11, the remains of Staten Island firefighter Lt. Jeffrey Walz have been positively identified, the city Medical Examiner's office has announced. 
 
 Updated story: Wife reacts to the official ID of Lt. Jeffrey Walz 
 
 Walz' unit, Ladder 9, had responded to the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11. Several of his fellow firefighters were able to get out of Tower 1 before it collapsed, but Walz was not among them. 
 
 "The only way to describe Jeff is to say he was the most caring, gentle, kind and patient person ever to enter my life," his wife, the former Rani Lurie told the Advance in the weeks after the attack. "I've never known anyone like him." 
 
 A Huguenot native and Tottenville High School graduate, Walz earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He was an electrical engineer in the Navy for five years before he entered the Fire Department, following in the footsteps of his father. 
 
 The Fire Department posthumously promoted him to lieutenant. 
 
 
 
 He and his wife moved to Westchester County in 1995, and had a son, Bradley, soon after. 
 
 His sister, Karen Ciaccio, described him as "a gentle giant." 
 
 
 

– The "gentle giant" is going back to his family. Improved DNA testing has identified the remains of another of the firefighters killed in the 9/11 attacks, reports the Staten Island Advance. Lt. Jeffrey Walz died in the north tower nearly a dozen years ago. “My family always felt at some point we would get a phone call,” his widow, Rani Walz, tells the New York Post. “I wasn’t so sure. This has reopened old wounds.” Walz was 37 when he died, leaving behind Rani and their 3-year-old son, Bradley. He managed to call his wife and parents from the tower before it collapsed, says his sister. As for that "gentle giant" nickname: “It was obviously because of his height and because he was such a good person," explains his wife. "He was a saint with me.” A city official says the remains of 1,637 World Trade Center victims have now been identified, leaving 1,116 unidentified. “At least we can say he’s not missing anymore,” mom Jennie Walz tells the Journal News. (This news follows an announcement made two weeks ago that the remains of a 43-year-old 9/11 victim had been identified.)