Tennessee boy, 5, rides to his first day of kindergarten on a fire truck at the request of his late firefighter fatherDaily Mail/UK, Aug 16, 2018
A five-year-old boy has arrived to his first day of kindergarten in style thanks to his late firefighter father.
Cooper Brooks rode to school on a fire truck last week alongside his father's colleagues at the Sullivan Country Volunteer Fire Department in Tennessee.
His father, Christopher Brooks, 21, was tragically killed in May after getting into a motorcycle accident.
He passed before he was able to carry on a family tradition with his three young children that was special to him as a child - his father would bring him to the first day of school on a fire truck.
With the help of Christopher's colleagues, five-year-old Cooper, the eldest of three, showed up his school on a fire truck, just as his father had done when he was young.
'He never forgot it, and his friends thought it was so cool that he and his twin brother got to ride the fire truck to school,' Christopher's widow Jessica told Good Morning America.
'He hoped we could make that happen for Cooper,' she said.
Firefighters Ty Wallace and assistant fire chief Josh Kemp made sure to get Cooper to school the way Christopher would have wanted him to.
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