In the days after D.C. rookie firefighter Dane Smothers Jr. was critically injured in an accident at the scene of a house fire, there were fears he would not survive. The 28-year-old had numerous broken bones and there were real concerns he would never walk again.
But after nearly three months in the hospital, Smothers is not only walking, but he said he wants to go back to work. Back on August 2, Smothers was responding to his first working fire. He was critically injured after being crushed between the engine he was working on and a ladder truck responding to a fire on the Northeast side of Capitol Hill.