Photo: Firefighter reads with young child at accident scene

A firefighter in Arizona has become a social media sensation.

In a photo taken last Friday, the first responder is seen comforting a young child at the scene of an accident.

Shana Pacheco told "Today" she and her daughter being tended to by Chandler, Arizona, firefighters first because they were the most visibly hurt after a car accident, which is when her son Lucas, 4, became worried about what he saw.

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