Firefighters give girl battling cancer the ride of a lifetime...

Cancer sucks, but it didn't ruin Finley Brown's spirit.

The 6-year-old from the Bay Area was diagnosed with a rare childhood kidney cancer, Wilms tumor, in June, according to "Today."

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Earlier this month, she received her last chemotherapy treatment but not before some local firefighters drove her to the clinic to do so.

"I'd never seen someone with such a big smile going to the hospital," Moraga-Orinda firefighter Lucas Lambert said. "I was having just as much fun as she was."

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