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Firefighters give girl battling cancer the ride of a lifetime to last chemo treatment

By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Dec 30, 2015

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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."

>> Photo: Firefighter comforts young boy at accident scene

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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