Mark Stockbrocks, a triplegic firefighter (GoFundMe) A GoFundMe is raising money to purchase a vertical standing wheelchair for Mark Stockbrocks, a triplegic firefighter and mobility advocate. Merry Lou Proudfoot, who’s organizing the fundraiser, says that Stockbrocks graduated from firefighting training with the Métis Nation of BC after spending seven years teaching in Japan. “He was invited to the Chief Training Officer’s Station in Alberta, but unfortunately never made it there,” says Proudfoot. “Instead of training at his new hall for his dream career, Mark was fighting for his life in a coma after suffering a congenital massive brain aneurysm stroke, which rendered him permanently triplegic with both legs and his left arm paralyzed for life.”