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California firefighter goes beyond the call of duty

By MARK BAYLIS
Lompoc Record (California)

Saving lives is in a firefighter’s job description. Seth Wells figured he would just go about it in a different way.

The 27-year-old civilian firefighter at Vandenberg Air Force Base returned home this weekend from Boston after donating his kidney to a fellow firefighter he had briefly met.

Wells gave a kidney to Walter Stecchi, 45, who worked at Vandenberg in the 1980s and is currently an assistant chief at Otis Air Force Base, Mass.

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