After over a year of surgeries in an attempt to heal his knee from infection, a firefighter underwent surgery to have his leg amputated.
Reporter Herald reported that Berthoud Fire Protection District fire investigator Josh Macdonald was injured in a March 2016 house fire after pulling 75-year-old Cecil Ann Dunfee from her burning home. Dunfee died after the fire, and it was when Macdonald returned to the scene to investigate the cause that he fell through the floor and caught his leg in electrical wiring.
“Once I fell through that floor, I just thought it was a torn ACL and PCL,” Macdonald told CBS Denver.
Macdonald’s health began declining after a routine surgery to fix his knee. Months after the incident, he was wrongly diagnosed with an allergic reaction to a skin cream after noticing irritation around his surgery scars.