Hours after Carlos Alfaro Sr. sent his comrades off to help with Hurricane Katrina relief last September, the veteran Montgomery County firefighter found himself in an emergency room.
He thought it was a heart attack. Days later, the 56-year-old Alfaro learned he had multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer of the plasma cells.
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