As firefighters battled the catastrophic blazes in Los Angeles County in January, CaliforniaÃÛèÖÊÓƵ U.S. senators, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, signed onto legislation with a simple aim: Provide federal assistance to first responders diagnosed with service-related cancer.
The is considered crucial by its supporters, with climate change fueling an and firefighting by the World Health Organization. Firefighters have a of dying from cancer than the general population, according to a 2024 study, and the disease was of career firefighter line-of-duty deaths from 2002 to 2019.
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