WASHINGTON — A D.C. firefighter says he feels lucky to be alive after he was shot over the weekend.

"It went in through here," Gary 'Zeek' Dziekan explained, pointing to the bandage on his chest. "They said I was really lucky."

He says doctors told him the bullet just missed hitting a major vein.

"It's on each side of a centimeter from the block of nerves that control the right side of your body and the main vein that runs from your heart down your right arm, and they said if either one of those would have got hit, I probably would have not been here," said Dziekan.

On Saturday night, he was headed home from a party.

"A good friend had friends had hosted an Oktoberfest party, so I cooked a pig all day, and so I left that party before it ended because my youngest son plays hockey and h

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