A home-grown hero who spent 92 days working at Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11 died in a crash on a Bronx bridge just months after winning a prestigious national award for his substance abuse counseling.

Anthony Kohl, 59, an Army veteran and master plumber who overcame his own substance abuse issues to become a mentor to others, was killed last month on City Island Bridge when the moped he was riding home from work struck an SUV.

“We knew he was getting an award, but we really didn’t know the scale of it,” Kohl’s son Mark Kohl said about watching his father receive the national Peer Specialist of the Year award from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing at a convention in Philadelphia in May.

“I couldn’t have been more proud of him. I can’t put the words into how proud

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