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Decontamination kits to guard firefighters from cancer are about to go out to hundreds of stations.
The kit is better than nothing but basic, their union says, and it will be pressuring Fire and Emergency (FENZ) to improve it.
High rates of cancer among firefighters are a global problem, and these kits are part of a FENZ carcinogen project that began in 2021 aimed at tackling the the problem.
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