PHOTOS: Adults often don’t know of the impact they have on a child’s life. But once in a while, that payoff comes full circle — and with photographic proof.
About 15 years ago, Cameron Lierly was a young boy enjoying a Fourth of July parade in the Candlestick Beach community west of town when his mother, Bridget Lierly, took a snapshot of her son sitting in the cab of a Sand Springs fire truck.
Standing next to the truck was firefighter Chad Lytle, his back turned mostly to the camera, neither his face nor name badge visible.
That fact made it a little more difficult when Cameron Lierly, now a Sand Springs firefighter himself, became aware of the photo and wanted to know who was with him in the picture.
Turns out, he knows him well: He and Lytle are both firefighters on the C shift. “To be honest, I didn’t even realize the photo existed,” Lierly said.