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Fallen EMTs Coworker Contacts 'Flash' TV Stars for Funeral

— Since she was a big fan, Marina DeSteno Challeen’s partner wants to bring the Flash costume to her funeral.

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — A fallen EMT’s partner wants to do something special for her funeral by contacting TV stars.

KSTP reported that Marino DeSteno Challeen’s partner, Eric Morcos, became friends with her while they worked together for eight months.

“I was with her around the time her mom passed away and so I helped bury her mom and go through all that. It was a rough time,” Morcos said. “The family has just been having a hard time lately.”

EMT DeSteno Challeen was killed when the ambulance she was in collided with a stalled semi. At the time of the crash, Morcos said he was on his way to the station to work out when his wife called him to tell him about seeing a HealthEast ambulance crash on TV.

“Called Marina, it went right to voicemail. I texted her, ‘Are you OK?'” he said.

Morcos knew that DeSteno Challeen loved dressing up as her favorite comic book character, Flash, so he wants to plan something special for her funeral.

“I honestly don’t think there’s anybody in the world who’s a bigger fan of the Flash than her, if we could get the costume from either the new Flash or the TV show,” he said.

Morcos reached out to “Flash” actors Ezra Miller and Grant Gustin in the hopes that they could help him out.

He knows there’s no guarantee that they will respond, but he said it was DeSteno Challeen who taught him to look at the bright side of things.

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