Firefighter battling cancer starts children's cancer charity

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TULSA, Okla — A Tulsa firefighter who's saved countless lives is now fighting to save his own.

Mark Meyer, a veteran of the Tulsa Fire Department, boarded a plane Monday morning to New York. He will see a doctor who will perform surgery on him later this week.

For the last several months Meyer has been in and out of medical facilities undergoing chemotherapy.

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