{"id":240481,"date":"2026-05-22T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240481\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:32:09","slug":"team-brooklyn-decatur-firefighters-teen-daughter-dies-after-cancer-battle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240481\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Team Brooklyn\u2019: Decatur firefighter\u2019s teen daughter dies after cancer battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-DFD-4-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1085839\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: A Decatur firefighter\u2019s teen daughter has died after a nearly two-year battle with cancer. Brooklyn Williams was diagnosed with a rare form of brain tumor almost two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Arab and Decatur community raised money for medical costs to help \u201cTeam Brooklyn\u201d and to support her father, Decatur Firefighter Matt Williams, after news of her diagnosis spread.<\/p>\n<p>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>WAFF-TV NBC 48 Huntsville<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: A Decatur firefighter\u2019s teen daughter has died after a nearly two-year battle with cancer. Brooklyn Williams was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[5334,98,100,99,93963,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-240481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-alabama","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-mid-south-region","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240481","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=240481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}