“This is what family is for,” the department said in a Facebook post.
OWN. YOU KNOW, GRAHAM HOFFMAN DIED IN THE LINE OF DUTY FIVE DAYS AGO. AND OF COURSE, SINCE THEN WE HAVE HEARD ALL KINDS OF STORIES, PRAISE FOR HIM, NOT JUST AS A FIREFIGHTER PARAMEDIC, BUT CERTAINLY AS A MAN. HE WAS 29 YEARS OLD. HE LOVED WHAT HE WHAT WHAT HE WAS DOING, SERVING AND PROTECTING HIS COMMUNITY. AND OF COURSE, THEN EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, WHILE ON DUTY, HE WAS STABBED IN THE BACK OF AN AMBULANCE. AN AMBULANCE THAT WAS ON THE WAY TO A HOSPITAL. SOMEONE THAT THAT CERTAINLY HE WAS TRYING TO HELP. I WANT TO BRING IN RIGHT NOW KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, FIRE BATTALION CHIEF MICHAEL HOPKINS RIGHT NOW. AND. CHIEF, REAL QUICK, THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI FIREFIGHTERS WHO ARE HERE TODAY, AND THEY’RE ONLY HERE TODAY …