Fire Departments Rally Behind NY Teen Battling Cancer

An aspiring firefighter in upstate New York is wearing a different department t-shirt every day during chemotherapy.
March 15, 2018

A 16-year-old aspiring firefighter in upstate New York was hoping to wear a different department t-shirt every day during his chemotherapy treatments for leukemia.

Timothy Richardson, whose father is a firefighter, has already received an overwhelming response with over 1,500 shirts arriving from many fire departments—even from as far away as Hawaii.

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