(FOX40.COM) — The Wildfire Conservancy is conducting a first-of-a-kind cancer study on firefighters battling the Palisades Fire. The goal is to track how wildland and urban interface firefighters’ extreme conditions increase their risk of cancer.
The initiative is a collaboration with Cal Fire, the National Firefighter Cancer Cohort Study, and the University of Arizona.
This comes after the International Agency for Research on Cancer officially classified firefighting as a carcinogenic profession…