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Mesa Fire Department to expand SCBA and helmet cleaning to reduce cancer risk
Summary
Fire department staff described a cancer-mitigation program that adds routine cleaning of SCBA packs and helmets, funded in part by grant money, to reduce carcinogen residue carried by firefighters.
Mesa — Mesa’s fire leadership told council on March 17 the department is expanding cleaning protocols for self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) packs and helmets as part of a cancer‑mitigation effort.
At the study session the fire chief said the initiative responds to research linking carcinogen residues from fires to elevated cancer risk among firefighters. “As we're going through cancer mitigation and cancer risk reduction, we found that in the…
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