{"id":125941,"date":"2026-02-07T02:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125941\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T02:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:51:10","slug":"st-johns-firefighters-foundation-rally-for-lt-s-daughter-suffering-from-rare-and-aggressive-brain-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/125941\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Johns, Firefighters Foundation rally for Lt.&#8217;s daughter suffering from &#8216;rare and aggressive&#8217; brain cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdnyfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The New York City Firefighters Foundation<\/a> and legends of the New York Knicks gathered Friday ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/06\/sports\/st-johns-uconn-tickets-going-for-as-high-as-3k\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. John\u2019s<\/a> basketball game against the Connecticut Huskies to rally around the daughter of one of New York\u2019s Bravest.<\/p>\n<p>Four-year-old Izzy Cashion was honored at the Fluer Room in Manhattan on Friday, as she battles a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer, DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma). <\/p>\n<p>Cashion was diagnosed with the devastating illness at an FDNY company picnic last August. <\/p>\n<p>Lt. Tim Cashion\u2019s daughter, Izzy, has a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer. Provided<\/p>\n<p>Her Father, Tim Cashion, serves as a Lt. for Engine 46. Izzy is heading out of New York on Saturday to begin a two-month medical trial at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are so humbled by the community outreach that has shown up just to help them get housing for the next two months while they stand there with their daughter as she goes through a very long two-month battle,\u201d said Managing Director of the NYFF, Mimi Coluccio, of the Cashion family. <\/p>\n<p>The event, made possible by sponsorships from law firm Sullivan Papain and the New York Firefighters Foundation, featured appearances from Knicks superstars New York Knicks greats Allan Houston and John Starks\u2013who organizers say joined the rally around Izzy to amplify the call for help.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it really speaks to St. John\u2019s community to the New York community as a whole to John Starks, and to Allan Houston for showing up for this event because I think it shows how much firefighters mean to New York City and how we don\u2019t forget,\u201d said Managing Partner of Sullivan Papain TJ McManus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Izzy is going to Stanford University on Saturday to begin a two-month trial treatment. Provided<\/p>\n<p>John Starks (pictured) made an appearance at the event prior to the game on Friday. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Yorkers don\u2019t forget everything that they have done for us and it\u2019s I think the idea that we are all in this together and we\u2019re gonna step up to help them when they need us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan Papain will present the NYFF\u2013which specializes in providing help and support to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/09\/us-news\/family-of-fdny-firefighter-who-died-of-a-heart-attack-after-he-lost-his-job-gets-boost-from-new-relief-fund\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FDNY families<\/a> struggling with circumstances off the line of duty\u2013with a $10,000 donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Firefighters Foundation and legends of the New York Knicks gathered Friday ahead of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[54629,194,54630,57,12612,9,24,55,54,56,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-125941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-allan-houston","9":"tag-fdny","10":"tag-john-starks","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-city-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}