VIDEO: A Phoenix firefighter donated one of her kidneys to her husband, a Surprise firefighter, after he was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease and entered stage 5 kidney failure.

Maddy Geer and Junior Coleman underwent surgery Thursday, and the couple is now recovering at home in Surprise. “When you’re 30 years old, we’re healthy, we’re fit, we work out all the time. You never expect something like this to happen,” Geer said.

Coleman, 31, was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease last April. Geer, 29, said she immediately volunteered to be tested as a potential donor.

“Ever since he got diagnosed with it, I was like, if I’m a match, it’s meant to be because I’m going to give you my kidney,” Geer said. The two were a match.

Coleman said fatigue and blurry vision were the first signs that something was wrong. He had been in stage 5 kidney failure with uncontrolled blood pressure and required dialysis three times a week for three months before the transplant.

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VIDEO: A worker was stranded in a Wilmington gas station sign for hours Tuesday.

Local fire officials said the worker was doing maintenance on the sign, located at 24225 Lorenzo Road in Wilmington, about 11 a.m., when the lift he used to get inside had an issue. The sign off Interstate 55 is roughly 130-feet tall.

There is no ladder inside, fire officials said. There was a huge police response, and a crane was seen being brought in.

The man could be seen inside the sign. He even gave Chopper 7 a “thumbs up.” The man appeared to be in good spirits. Just before 4 p.m., the man was seen getting into the crane basket and slowly brought down to the ground.

He was then placed into a Wilmington Fire Department ambulance. Fire officials said it was difficult finding another lift tall enough to reach him.

Their ladders are only about 100-feet tall. They eventually found a specialized lift at a job site in Joliet, and Illinois State Police escorted it to Wilmington.

Fire officials say the worker refused medical treatment and is expected to be OK.

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The County of San Diego marked the completion of $12 million in renovations at the Ramona Airbase to advance its firefighting capabilities as Southern California’s wildfire season grows in intensity and complexity.

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VIDEO: Level 3 (Go Now!) evacuations have been issued for a wildfire burning near Tyler, Washington Tuesday afternoon. According to Spokane County Fire District 3 (SCFD 3), the Malloy Fire at the 20600 block of South Malloy Prairie Road has burned about 22 acres so far. SCFD3 says as of 3:40 p.m., forward progress has been stopped and the fire is 100% lined.

The Level 3 (Go Now!) evacuation has downgraded to Level 2 (Get Set!) evacuations for the area about one mile west of where the fire started, west of Malloy Prairie. That includes people living between Malloy Prairie on the East and Harrison Road on the West. 21002 S Malloy Prairie on the South and 20122 S Malloy Prairie on the North.

SCFD 3 said crews are continuing structure protection efforts and as additional resources respond. An incident commander on scene tells KREM 2 there are “a number” of structures threatened. Crews from the Bureau of Land Management and Washington Department of Natural Resources are also assisting, including seven aircraft.

The fire district said as of 5 p.m., three structures were destroyed in the fire, including one barn and two outbuildings or sheds. No injuries were reported.

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