There is no question running into a fire is a risky line of work. But with the death of a third Kansas City firefighter in three years, we're reminded that sometimes it's what a firefighter can't see that's the deadliest.
It’s every mother’s worst nightmare, losing her child.
“We knew it was going to come, but when it comes so quick you never really expect it hits you,” Marianne Bayton, Mother said.
Bayton’s son, Captain Jerry Brayton, died last Friday after battling Multiple Myeloma for seven years, a rare blood cancer that weakens the bones.
“It was difficult, very difficult. We had to be strong,” Bayton said.
But what caused this young vibrant man to end up fighting for his life in a hospital bed?
“It was work related, they have determined that through the courts, they determined that,” Bayton said.
Brayton served more than 20 years as a firefighter with the Kansas City Fire Department.