By March 1981 the organization had raised more than $2,000,
enough to grant its first wish to seven-year-old Frank“Bopsy” Salazar who, like Chris, had terminal leukemia.
The department hosted a lunch for Bopsy at Station 1,
made him an honorary member of the Engine 9 crew- complete with his own firefighting suit- and let him operate the siren when the crew responded to fires.
When Bopsy's illness worsened a month later
and he was admitted to the hospital, his friends at Station 1 drove to the hospital in the ladder truck and used it to climb through the window of his third-floor hospital room.