A Mesa firefighter continues his long battle with cancer and recently tested positive for COVID-19 too.
"Luckily I’m vaccinated and got my booster shot, so I'm doing well," Captain Trevor Madrid with the Mesa Fire and Medical Department said.
He said he was first diagnosed in March of 2019. "It’s called Synovial Sarcoma it’s the fifth rarest cancer, it’s a really rare cancer."
He'd been fighting flames for more than a dozen years, but the last 2.5 years, he hasn't been able to do what he loves.
"I was like I’m 33, I don’t need to go to the hospital for abdominal pain."
He thought he was invincible.
"I was super healthy, 210 pounds with a six-pack."
But the truth is, no firefighter is.
"In the last five years, we’ve lost two firefighters in Mesa to cancer," friend and colleague Captain Steve Heyer stated.