KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Fire Department is asking the community for help in putting together a parade for a young boy battling a rare genetic disorder.
KCFD Station 10 posted on social media on Tuesday about the request. The department said Saralyn Hayes with the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) and her family are coordinating a parade for her 3-year-old family member named Tucker.
Station 10 said Tucker is being sent home this week from Children’s Mercy on hospice. He’s been battling Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), also known as “butterfly skin” and complications from it…