BATAVIA/Firefighters from four counties gather to hear about the threat of exposure to cancer causing agents when fighting fires

Its a statistic no one likes to read. Between 2012-2014, 300 firefighters died in NYS. 52% of the deaths were caused by cancer. 69% of firefighters get some form of cancer. 60% will die from cancer. These statistics have firefighters worried. On Monday night representatives from 13 different fire departments …

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