Grand Island Fire Department Shift Commander Bryan Stutzman and firefighter and paramedic Lonnie Mitteis are back to work after undergoing cancer treatments, reports The Omaha World-Herald.
Mitteis had been gone nine months with bladder cancer. Stutzman, who had prostate cancer, was gone eight weeks.
In December 2017, Grand Island firefighter Jedd Bohlender, 49, died of pancreatic cancer.
Mitteis said he got support from other firefighters — cards from as far away as Germany and New Zealand. He also received many phone calls, texts and other messages from all over the country and Canada.
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