A year after LA wildfires, early data reinforce anxieties over firefighters’ cancer risks

Respirators (restricted by federal regulation) may or may not be the answer

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The call to Fire Captain Brian Buchanan and his crew came at midnight. Northern California firefighters were urgently needed to help fight the wildfires that were devouring big swaths of Los Angeles. 

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