O'FALLON, Mo. — A nine-year-old O’Fallon, Missouri, girl battling cancer is inspiring a group of firefighters who agreed to help cheer her up.
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KTVI reported that Keira Stout was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare form of cancer, two years ago. The cancer went into remission before returning in May 2016.
The gesture was meant to empower little Keira, but firefighters say she has had a much bigger impact on them.
This week, a group of firefighters inducted Keira to their team as an honorary O’Fallon firefighter.
"Her resiliency as a child to go through everything she has gone through in the past two years since she has had this cancer is just incredible," firefighter Tom Vogelgesang said . "If I’m having a bad day I can look at a picture of her and think about what she’s been through and my day is not so bad after all."