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Fire chief outlines new cancer screening, recruitment test change and equipment deliveries
Summary
Chief Janine Nicholson told the Fire Commission the department will offer a Galleri blood test to eligible members funded by the Firefighter Cancer Prevention Foundation, plans to transition entrance testing from the National Testing Network to a state FCTC test, and reported new ambulances and ladder trucks arriving.
Chief of Department Janine Nicholson and department administration briefed the San Francisco Fire Commission on operations, staffing and new health programs.
Nicholson said the department will make a blood-based Galleri test available in early December to members over 35 with five or more years of service; the San Francisco Firefighter Cancer Prevention Foundation is paying for the pilot. "It has a very low rate of…
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