When Tiffany Moyes added an EMT certification to her Firefighter I credentials in May, she thought she was well on her way to a career as a firefighter. Instead, the 19-year-old Ferndale native was facing six months of chemotherapy and a fight for her life against advanced blood cancer.
“I could’ve cried about it, but what good would that do?” said Moyes, who comes from a family of firefighters, nurses and law enforcement officers. “Stage 4 Hodgkin’s disease isn’t that big a thing, like (other cancers). Stage 4 is highly curable.”