Safyre has endured much since the day in May 2013 when firefighters found her clutched in the arms of her dying father, who had shielded her with his body and saved her from the flames that killed him and Safyre's three younger siblings in their apartment in Schenectady in upstate New York. She has had countless reconstructive surgeries to rebuild her mouth, nose and face. She eventually lost a hand and a foot to repeated infections. But her spirits lifted considerably last January when a tracheal tube was removed and she was able to speak again.