Firefighter Cancer Prevention (FEMA Grants & CDC Research)
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-04-04 — Michael Lecik Military Firefighters Protection Act: cross-connection with military-firefighter-presumptive-service-connection: Both address occupational disease risk among firefighters — HR2244 targets veterans via VA presumptive service-connection, while the FEMA/CDC page covers civilian firefighter cancer research and prevention grants. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-02-26 — FIRE Cancer Act of 2025: FIRE Cancer Act of 2025 (HR1610) introduced — would expand FEMA’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant program to fund cancer prevention including multi-cancer early detection testing, and create a joint FEMA–CDC research program using voluntarily shared anonymized preventive-testing results to study firefighter cancer trends and causes. (novelty: 2)