Baltimore Firefighter Who Survived Deadly Fire Finally Gets To Go Home

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Firefighter John McMaster was released from Shock Trauma on Thursday afternoon.

McMaster was met by a line of fellow firefighters and hospital staff all cheering him on and clapping for the firefighter and he exited the hospital.

Three days after McMaster was critically injured in a fire, he got out of his wheelchair and hugged his family and friends before leaving the hospital.

"It is an awesome sight to see," Rich Langford, the president of Baltimore Firefighters IAFF Local 734, said. "Hopefully it gives our membership a little glimmer of hope in all of this dark time that we're going through right now."

Roughly fifty firefighters were outside Shock Trauma Thursday in support of McMaster.

Among the people there to greet McMaster was Battalion Chief Josh Fannon, the president of Baltimore Fire Officers IAFF Local 964.

"We were there primarily to support our brother getting out of the hospital to show him some hope, pay our respects to him," Fannon said. "He's going through something difficult."

Fannon said it was important for members of the Baltimore City Fire Department to be there for McMaster and line up as they do for funeral processions—but this time it was to clap in support of him.

"To see the brotherhood as the public saw today, the members lined up on the street. . . . we are one big family and we are all suffering right now," Langford said. "And hopefully that just gives a little bit of a smile to everybody and a little sigh of relief that things are gonna get better in the future."