After battling wildfires in California in 2017 and coming home injured, a Salt Lake City firefighter is trying to get the help he needs.
“When I was young, my dad was killed in a tractor accident on our farm in Cedar Valley. I remembered the first responders who came and tried to help us, and I revered them. That kind of grew in me, that desire to be that," he said.
It was a job that also took him to California to help battle wildfires in 2017 as part of the FEMA response. But on his first day there, he was hurt. The city awarded him the Purple Cross for getting injured while on the job and paid for some of the post-concussive therapy and other treatments. “My medical condition forced me to retire,” he said. “I was so sick I couldn’t do it. Tried to fake it till I made it, everything was progressively getting worse, and it was unsafe. I almost passed out one time trying to show a lift.”“The extreme fatigue, I’m fighting all the time to breathe… the costochondritis basically means that there’s swelling and hardening of the cartilage in my rib cage as well, so expanding my rib cage, it takes energy," Fitzgerald said.
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