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Mesa Fire Department describes expanded cleaning of helmets and SCBA packs to reduce cancer risk
Summary
Fire department leadership told the council the department is increasing on-scene decontamination and instituting cleaning for helmets and SCBA packs to reduce firefighter cancer risk; staff said the work is grant-funded and that packs have been moved out of vehicle cabs.
At the March 17 study session the Mesa Fire Department described new cleaning and decontamination measures intended to reduce firefighters' exposure to carcinogenic residues.
"As we're going through cancer mitigation and cancer risk reduction, we found that in the SCBA packs and on the helmets that we have not cleaned in the past...that still emits fumes and still emits toxins,"…
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