A young Ohio honorary firefighter was provided a hero’s funeral after wasting his fight versus leukemia merely 3 weeks after he was sworn in.
Brian Ford, 6, was honored Monday along with a firefighter’s farewell in the firm of friends, family and the Fredericktown Neighborhood Fire District Station 410 after becoming the station’s initial honorary firefighter merely weeks prior to his death.
Close buddy and firefighter Jason Bostic carried Brian’s tiny uniform in his arms as he followed firefighters that carried the casket, and others that carried an American flag and axes.
“Today we buried my friend, my superhero, my brother, and an incredible little boy,” Bostic, that was the initial individual to advise the department make the boy their initial honorary firefighter, wrote about his Facebook. “With all of the pain, With my sadness, Brian I chance that you can easily observe me smiling, due to the fact that my heart is complete from having owned you in my life.”
The procession lifted his casket in to the firetruck as a portion of the touching ceremony, match for a hero.
“Brian deserved to be an honorary firefighter for his courageousness, his bravery in the means he fights,” Bostic told InsideEdition.com in a previous interview. “If Brian stood in front of me today, and he was at the age to be a portion of the fire department, I would certainly absolutely like to have actually him or her around.”
The boy passed away last Wednesday after an extended battle versus acute undifferentiated leukemia.
That day, Bostic wrote about his Facebook: “He gained his wings today and is pain-free cancer free and along with his friends and in a much better place”
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The adhering to Friday night, the fire station encouraged others fire houses and law enforcement firms to transform about their emergency lights for one moment in rememberance of the Alexandria boy.
All this in memory of a boy who’s life was touched by the assist of fire departments in the area.
Brian’s dad, Tim Bowers, told InsideEdition.com in an earlier interview that about among the last nights prior to he passed away, “[Brian] was laying there sleeping. They owned position him or her about morphine and oxycodone and he started saying, ‘Mom, we have actually got to get hold of up and position out a fire.'”
