Firefighters help a boy with a tumor

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5-Alarm Heroes: Crew helps 4-year-old boy through difficult times
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Four-year-old Gage Thompson shares a special bond with the firefighters from Ladder 104 of the Unified Fire Authority.

The boy has experienced tough times in his young life, and members of Ladder 104 have been there to help him along the way. At 4 years old, he already knows he wants to be like them when he grows up.

Gage and his family live close to the Holladay fire station. They walk by it daily, checking out the trucks, saying hello to the firefighters. Gage even held a superhero birthday party there. But Thanksgiving weekend, after Gage had suffered for years from what doctors thought was torticollis (twisting of muscles of the neck), the visits stopped.

Gage’s mother, Gretchen Thompson, said, “He’d be playing and all of a sudden he would be like, ‘Ouch, my head hurts inside, my head.’”

Doctors found a baseball-sized tumor in Gage’s brain. Immediately he was rushed into surgery to have part of it removed.

“You don’t know what’s going to happen when they’re digging around in your child’s brain. You don’t know if your boy is going to be the same person coming back,” Gretchen said.

Gage came out of the surgery but was having a hard time recovering. Then Ladder 104 showed up at Primary Children’s Medical Center carrying a hat of his very own for Gage.

“He hadn’t spoken. He hadn’t smiled, and all of a sudden they came in and it was like, ‘There he is. There is our boy,’” Gretchen said.

Capt. Fitzgerald Petersen said, “Because of that visit to the hospital, his parents were actually able to talk him into cooperating with the doctors and nurses more. If you’re able to do this, we’ll promise another visit to the station.”

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