Murrieta firefighter Dean Hale has seen his share of battles with fires. Over the past eight years, he has been battling something much more dangerous to himself and his family: cancer.“I was first diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2008, following an annual physical,” Hale wrote in a statement on a GoFundMe page organized by the Murrieta Firefighters Association. “Soon after, a test revealed it to be Stage 4, nonsmall cell lung cancer.”After months of treatment and long drives to and from Santa Monica, Hale was told he was cancer-free, but it was not for long. Nine months later, he found out the cancer had returned to his neck and brain. Again, after half a year of treatment, he beat it.Then, in 2018, he found out he was suffering from edema in his brain due to al
