Wednesday's Child: Angel

(myFOXla.com) - Have you ever looked into the face of a hero? What did you see? Anyone who has done anything courageous has likely had the support of caring individuals in their life. For many children in foster care, they are still looking for that supportive someone to call their own - an act which takes courage to do as well.

Today, we want you to look into the face of Angel and know that while today he is waiting for a heroic family to provide him support, he’s looking to be a hero himself someday because he wants to help others when he grows up.

What better place to meet heroes than the Annual Hope for Firefighters event with the Los Angeles Fire Department?

Here, Angel got one-on-one training from Fire Captain, Rick Godinez and all the gear necessary to play that role of heroic firefighter for the day. First there was the badge which Angel had no problems learning to wear that with pride.

When on the job, a firefighter has to know about buildings and structures and learn everything there is to know about the very cool but heavy equipment that firefighters use.

Equally important is how to take care of yourself when you’re not out saving lives and no one but firefighters know better on how to do that through cooking, so our visit was filled with gourmet food cooked by the various fire houses in a competition to raise money for the fallen heroes. As a new honorary firefighter, Angel got to inspect everything that was going on.

Angel loves to explore. Here we see him as a firefighter but we can visualize him in many other outfits. Perhaps that of a soldier or a police officer or a doctor’s lab coat. He has many more years to explore how he will help others someday. Until then, we’re looking for someone to help Angel and give him the love, safety and security to thrive that only a permanent and loving family can provide.

For an afternoon, Angel was part of the LAFD family and got to be with and model after some of our everyday heroes. There’s more than one way to he a hero, though, and the biggest kind of hero needed by Angel is an adoptive family.