Two FDNY members have taken their heroism to the next level, helping to save the lives of two people with cancer.
At an emotional event on Friday, firefighter Robert Humphries, 30, of Engine Company 161 on Staten Island and EMT William Curley, 30, of Station 31 in Brooklyn met the patients who received their bone marrow.
Humphries’ bone marrow helped save 14-year-old Kyle Richardson from Deltona, Florida, and Curley’s helped save 39-year-old Jamie Tefft, a single-mother of three daughters from Pawcatuck, Connecticut.
Richardson had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Tefft had Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.
“I just owe him everything,” Richardson’s mother Dawn Traynor, told Humphries through tears. "It's hard to put into words how it feels."
Members of the FDNY make up the New York Blood Center’s single largest group of bone marrow and stem cell donors.
