Fort Worth Firefighter Group At Odds With Chief On Best Path To Prevent Cancer From Smoke Exposure

Arlington TX

14 March, 2022

7:36 PM

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By Haley Samsel, Fort Worth Report March 13, 2022 Last month, as former Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and firefighters looked on, City Council members expressed gratitude for a $96,000 donation to purchase six washing machines that remove carcinogens — substances capable of causing cancer — from fire department gear. Mayor Mattie Parker called it a "very, very exciting day" for the city, which takes its responsibility to address cancer in the first responder community seriously, she said. "City management and Chief Jim Davis are working together right now on real solutions, not just for this department, but across the country," Parker said. "We want to be really leading in Fort Worth on what this looks like into the future." But outside of the celebration in City Hall, leaders of the Fort Worth Fire Service Resource Network – the nonprofit organization that gave the donation — say they have been sidelined from conversations about how Davis and the department should move forward with preventing cancer among firefighters. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.