October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Cherokee County firefighters are helping some of their own who were diagnosed with the disease in 2021.
Captain Matt Richter of Station 24 said that three of the firefighters' spouses were diagnosed with breast cancer this year and he wanted to do something to help.
"We heard that Alicia Lanier, Division Chief Kevin Lanier's wife, learned that she had breast cancer, and not long after that, Charlotte Orr, wife of Division Chief Mark Orr, had it, too," Richter said. "As the news traveled throughout the fire department, firefighters were asking what they could do to help." Richter said that he always felt that there had to be something that they could do to assist these ladies in need.
"My crew here at Station 24 would throw out different ideas daily to find ways to help," he said.