Two years ago, Sam Mills was in the intensive care unit fighting for his life after being ejected from his car.
On Tuesday, he will start classes at the Harris County Fire Academy.
"Whenever I saw a hard thing, I didn't run away from it; I ran towards it," Mills told reporters.
"I learned a lot through my treatments. My verbal communications, my occupational therapy, my physical therapy especially," Mills said.
He now wants to help others just as those firefighters and EMTs responded to his emergency.
"It's our turn, not even as a family but as an individual, to pay it forward to those first responders. Because, boy, they don't get recognized very much. And I'm glad Sam has decided to go into this field just to pay it forward," Carrie Mills, Sam's mother, said adding "I have all faith in him. He's a fighter."
