Ohio firefighter who lost leg says he will be back fighting fires. Mifflin Township's Anthony Torres takes first steps on new leg.
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On a trip to Ohio earlier in the week our friend Steve Robertson told us to watch for stories about Mifflin Township Firefighter Anthony Torres who lost the lower part of his left leg after a motorcycle crash nine weeks ago. Steve told us to Anthony’s goal is to be back to work as a firefighter. One day later Marcus Thorpe at WCMH-TV was with Anthony Torres as he took his first steps on his new leg:
“I would look down at my leg and foot and say, ‘That’s going to be amputated right there,” Torres said.
One might assume the crash would end what looked to be a promising career. But, that’s not how Torres saw it.
“It’s going to happen. It’s not a dream. It’s going to happen. I will be full duty. No doubt in my mind,” he said.
He quickly started to think and talk with a firefighter in Kansas who had a similar injury.
Doctors designed a prosthetic lower leg, and Friday, Torres took his first steps to the rest of his life.
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