Locating the new ambulance in Fletcher will help address overall EMS call volume and decrease response times to emergency calls.

The cameras will be used by five area fire stations.

The cameras, each priced at $8,000, have proven to be useful in locating occupants of smoke-filled buildings and children lost in wooded areas. They are designed to seek heat to identify people.

Chief Kurt Wilson said JFRD had been using old analog cameras with parts that were not made anymore. When one of those cameras would break, it was unable to be fixed.

Wilson said the new donated cameras could save lives.

This new registry would help doctors track and treat firefighters with cancer. It's a difficult reality that's not new to the department in Syracuse.

Michael Valenti with the Firefighter Cancer Foundation says what comes along with it is more danger - even after flames have been put out.

"Our job is killing us. We know it's taken between 11 and 13 years off of our life," Valenti said.

For the men and women who make a career out of helping others, like Alex Cimino, it's a step lawmakers hope will make a difference in their lives once they hang up the helmet.