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Firefighters give vacation time to brother fighting disease

Matt Williams was one year shy of retirement when he was diagnosed with Neuromyelitis Optica, a rare relapsing autoimmune disorder that causes inflammation in the optic nerve and spinal cord

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — A group of New Mexico firefighters are coming together to help one of their own and they’re giving up something a lot of people wouldn’t.

“It killed my heart, really,” said Los Alamos Firefighter Matt Williams. For Matt Williams, the Los Alamos Fire Department means everything. He’s worked as a firefighter for nearly 20 years. Fifteen of those years was at Los Alamos.

“Every sense of the word service. To be there to help and to give,” said Williams. “He embodies everything as a firefighter,” said Los Alamos Fire Department Deputy Chief Justin Grider.

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