{"id":239609,"date":"2026-05-21T19:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239609\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:07:48","slug":"team-brooklyn-decatur-firefighters-teen-daughter-dies-after-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239609\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Team Brooklyn\u2019: Decatur firefighter\u2019s teen daughter dies after cancer battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DECATUR, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waff.com\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WAFF<\/a>) &#8211; A Decatur firefighter\u2019s teen daughter has died after a nearly two-year battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brooklyn Williams was diagnosed with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waff.com\/2024\/09\/20\/arab-community-surrounds-family-girl-with-terminal-brain-tumor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.waff.com\/2024\/09\/20\/arab-community-surrounds-family-girl-with-terminal-brain-tumor\/\">rare form of brain tumor almost two years ago.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Arab and Decatur community <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waff.com\/2026\/02\/07\/love-action-decatur-community-organizes-blood-drive-support-firefighters-daughter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.waff.com\/2026\/02\/07\/love-action-decatur-community-organizes-blood-drive-support-firefighters-daughter\/\">raised money for medical costs<\/a> to help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waff.com\/2025\/11\/21\/team-brooklyn-decatur-fire-rescue-rallies-help-firefighters-12yearold-daughter-battling-rare-brain-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.waff.com\/2025\/11\/21\/team-brooklyn-decatur-fire-rescue-rallies-help-firefighters-12yearold-daughter-battling-rare-brain-cancer\/\">\u201cTeam Brooklyn\u201d and to support her father, Decatur Firefighter Matt Williams,<\/a> after news of her diagnosis spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A post on the Team Brooklyn Facebook page said: \u201cher smile, strength, and joy that she brought to others will never be forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@waff48news\">Click Here to Subscribe on YouTube:<\/a> Watch the latest WAFF 48 news, sports &amp; weather videos on our YouTube channel!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WAFF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF) &#8211; A Decatur firefighter\u2019s teen daughter has died after a nearly two-year battle with cancer.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[93642,90029,98,100,99,53775,13483,75494,34209,7438,93643,9,24,63,93641,93644],"class_list":["post-239609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-arab","tag-brain-tumor","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-williams","tag-cancer","tag-childhood-cancer","tag-decatur","tag-firefighter","tag-matt-williams","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-team-brooklyn","tag-tumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239609","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=239609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}