19 May 2016 8:40 pm
OMG! Somebody pass me a tissue.
Thanks to the New York City Fire Department, a 3-year-old boy with cancer is going to become an honorary fireman.
Trucker Dukes was diagnosed with cancer about a year and a half ago. Dukes and his mother Shauna are currently living in New York while he undergoes treatment for his Stage 4 neuroblastoma, a rare and aggressive cancer that overtakes the nervous system.
Dukes loves to see firetrucks in the streets since moving to the city. One day when returning home, a bunch of firetrucks were gathered outside his building responding to a call about a small kitchen fire.
“Every fire truck, he thought it was for him,” his mother shared with Today. “He would hear a siren, and his jaw would drop.” Dukes’s father, Joshua, is also a firefighter in their hometown in Hawaii.
Dukes was so excited about the trucks that he instantly greeted the Captain, James Grismer, and ran right into his arms.
When New York Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro heard about Dukes and his story, he knew he wanted to make the little boy an honorary firefighter.
Dukes will be “officially sworn in” at the FDNY’s Brooklyn headquarters on May 31.
http://www.yourdailydish.com/adorable-b ... refighter/
FDNY are the best!
Thanks to the New York City Fire Department, a 3-year-old boy with cancer is going to become an honorary fireman.
Trucker Dukes was diagnosed with cancer about a year and a half ago. Dukes and his mother Shauna are currently living in New York while he undergoes treatment for his Stage 4 neuroblastoma, a rare and aggressive cancer that overtakes the nervous system.
Dukes loves to see firetrucks in the streets since moving to the city. One day when returning home, a bunch of firetrucks were gathered outside his building responding to a call about a small kitchen fire.
“Every fire truck, he thought it was for him,” his mother shared with Today. “He would hear a siren, and his jaw would drop.” Dukes’s father, Joshua, is also a firefighter in their hometown in Hawaii.
Dukes was so excited about the trucks that he instantly greeted the Captain, James Grismer, and ran right into his arms.
When New York Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro heard about Dukes and his story, he knew he wanted to make the little boy an honorary firefighter.
Dukes will be “officially sworn in” at the FDNY’s Brooklyn headquarters on May 31.
http://www.yourdailydish.com/adorable-b ... refighter/
FDNY are the best!