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SFFCPF Thanks Thrasher for its “Alleycats” Donation
San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation Board Director and Station One FF, Kailin Waterman, accepts a check from [...]
NBC Bay Area News: Toxins Found in Air, Firefighter Gear. SFFCPF Funds Research.
NBC Bay Area "Toxins Found in Air, Firefighter Gear Are Health Hazards: Report" is a must see, locally-aired [...]
NBC Nightly News Piece Featuring BC Matt Alba on Smoke Health Risks
NBC Nightly News In a recent NBC Nightly News piece, one of our board members, SFFD Batt. Chief [...]
SFFCPF Thanks SF Intl. Airport Golf Charity for its Continued Support
By SFFCPF Last month President Tony Stefani presented a plaque to Jean Caramatti and Bob McKinley, chairs of [...]
Resolutions Pass to Protect Firefighters from Toxic Substances in PPE
San Francisco Firefighter Cancer Prevention Foundation Delegates at the IAFF 55th Convention voted overwhelmingly in favor of resolutions [...]
Board Member and San Francisco Firefighter Adam Wood Speaks at the IAFF on Resolution 31
Adam Wood Our profession's great concern over PFAS chemicals in our PPE and the major study our Foundation [...]
Camp Fire Study Finds Cancer-Causing Chemicals in CA Firefighters’ Blood
CBS News | featuring Tony Stefani & Matt Alba, Capt., SFFD The recently released results of the 2018 Camp [...]
Women Firefighters Face High Exposure to Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’
By UC Berkeley News In 2012, the Women Firefighters Biomonitoring Collaborative, led by Silent Spring Institute and UC Berkeley researchers, [...]
‘Nobody Gets Out Without Damage’: What Fighting Fire Does to the Body
By The Guardian The quest to understand the toxic effects of fighting wildfires has taken on a new [...]
New Threats Put Wildfire Fighters’ Health on the Line
By New York Times (feat. Capt Matt Alba) America's rapid suburban expansion into the wilderness, combined with the [...]
Study Tests Immunotherapy in People with Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases
By NIH Cancer Institute Researchers have launched a clinical trial to test an immunotherapy drug in patients who [...]
Elevated Mercury Found in Blood of Some SF firefighters Who Battled Tubbs Fire
By The San Francisco Chronicle Some San Francisco firefighters who pitched in to battle the deadly Tubbs Fire [...]