Benton County Fire District #4 sends gear to New York teen battling cancer

  • Source: YakTriNews
  • Published: 03/15/2018 08:03 PM

A New York teen is getting clothes from a local fire department as part of his wish to represent firefighters from around the country while he battles cancer. Timmy Richardson was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this month and is now undergoing treatment at a hospital in Buffalo. Timmy comes from a family of firefighters, and he has grown up with plans to become a firefighter his whole life. Since his diagnosis, he and his family have been asking fire departments around the country to send him T-shirts so that he can represent a different department every day that he's in the hospital. Firefighters from Benton County Fire District #4 heard about Timmy's situation and decided to get involved. Earlier this week, the sent him a hat, T-shirt, challenge coin and a card signed by the whole crew.



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