Dylan Schilt, a Laramie firefighter, walked out of a physical therapy centre in Denver after 16 weeks of gruelling recovery, knowing that his most difficult steps were still ahead.
A massive stone fireplace chase collapsed on Schilt and another firefighter on February 28 while they were responding to a report of heavy smoke in a rural Albany County home.
Schilt, 32, suffered a broken back, shattered ankle, and collapsed lung, leaving him temporarily paralysed from the waist down…