Iraq Veteran Marine Saved By New York Firefighter

UPDATE
FDNY BONE MARROW DONOR MEETS IRAQ VETERAN RECIPIENT FOR 1ST TIME

EXCLUSIVE: FDNY firefighter donating bone marrow to save Iraq War veteran
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
BY LISA L. COLANGELO
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Michael McCauley had only been a firefighter for a few months when he saved a life — and he didn’t even have to run into a burning building to do it.

The 26-year-old Staten Island resident was told in 2013 that he was a match for a leukemia patient in desperate need of a bone-marrow transplant.

On Wednesday, he will finally meet the mystery recipient — Aaron Faulkner, a 33-year-old Iraq War veteran and father of two from Pittsburgh, at a special reception at FDNY headquarters in Brooklyn.

“I went a long time without hearing anything,” said McCauley, who works out of Engine 242 in Bay Ridge.

“I wasn’t sure whether or not it helped.”

Faulkner, a former Marine now studying to be a pastor, was a student at Geneva College in Pennsylvania when he started to feel pains and exhaustion.

He thought the blood test he took in March 2013 would reveal he had an annoying case of mononucleosis — not acute myeloid leukemia.
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