A vision of red, white and blue lights.

"Our local first responders showed up and showed out," said McKenzie Mattison, manager of Volunteer and Family services at Oishei Children's Hospital. 

Local police, fire and emergency personnel from Buffalo, Kenmore, the city of Tonawanda, and the Erie County Sheriff’s Office, to name a few, filled Ellicott Street. More than 40 fire trucks, police cars, and ambulances parked across from Oishei Children’s Hospital, turned on their sirens and blared their horns, to give kids who can’t leave their rooms a Valentine’s Day treat.

"They can look down and see bright light and it’s something that will give them hope," Mattison said. 

One young man, Timmy Richardson, remembers being a cancer patient at Oishei not too long ago.

"It was nice when I was up there. That Buffalo fire would come stop in and say hi, turn their lights on and I would smile," he said. "It would help me through the next day."

Richardson, who is now a volunteer firefighter at U-Crest Fire in Cheektowaga, helped make Thursday’s “Light of Love” possible.

"For most of them, it’s a nice thing to see and know that they have something to look forward to after their rounds of chemo or whatever they are up there for," he explained. 

As fire, police and EMS crews waved at the kids, the kids waived back with their own special lightsabers.

It was a heartwarming moment for Buffalo's heroes and these kids. 

"No one fights alone and everyone is there for you," said Richardson.