The son of a Massachusetts firefighter who died of cancer started kindergarten with cheers thanks to his late dad's colleagues.
Fall River fighters lined the sidewalk to Holy Name School to make sure Logan Franco, 5, had a big send of as he walked in for his first day of class. Logan's dad, Adam, had only been a member of the department for eight months, when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died in March 2015, only a year and a half after Logan's birth, WPRI-TV reports.
“We conceived while Adam was on chemo and radiation, so it was quite a shock to find out we were pregnant,” Angela Franco told the TV station.
Although Adam Franco was with the department for a relatively short time, he made a huge impact with his fellow firefighters. And those firefighters want to Logan to know that.
“We’re going to make sure this kid knows who his father was, what he did, and what he meant to all of us," Fall River District Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon told WPRI. "That’s something we’ll do forever."
