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Firefighters should be mad as hell [1]
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Date: 2025-04-23
Everybody loves firefighters. Well, not everyone. There is one person who doesn’t. Hint: His regime also hates researchers working on cures for childhood cancers. I was stunned yet again when I read this headline from the superb journalism organization ProPublica: Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths.
He is going to succeed at one thing: pissing off every single group he can except his oligarch pals.
“The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
These cuts included seven of the eight members of the Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program, the team that studies firefighter line-of-duty deaths, one of the laid-off investigators told ProPublica.
Most nonunionized NIOSH workers were given until the end of the day to clear out their desks. The layoffs were so abrupt, staff said, that lab animals were left without staff to care for them and had to be euthanized, and an experimental mine used to test protective gear beneath the agency’s Pittsburgh campus was at risk of flooding and polluting the surrounding environment.”
I encourage you to read the whole article.
Take action! If you know any firefighters, send them the link to ProPublica’s article. If you don’t, copy the article and print it for your local fire departments. ProPublica grants free republishing rights as long as you adhere to their rules, which include proper acknowledgement.
This is yet another outrage. This evil regime is cutting is cutting its own throat. Get the word out.
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