At just 23 years old, Zachary Oehrke knew how his life would end.
"I told myself I was going to die a heroin addict," he said. "I told myself that was going to be my fate."
His fate changed forever at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on November 2. He overdosed on heroin in the bathroom, and Port of Seattle Fire Captain David Washington saved his life.
"I remember telling him that you need to get a support system, not ever thinking that I was ever going to see him again," Washington said.
Just a few weeks later, they reunited at the New Hope Recovery Center in Modesto where Oehrke is recovering. Washington's chief recently called him into his office and asked if he would want to see the young man whose life he saved.
"I just started bawling because it resonated in my life, like this could be my son," Washington told FOX40. "It doesn't matter what nationality we come from, it matters how we care for each other and that's what hit me the hardest."