Federal firefighters are now encouraged to wear N95 respirators on the fire line for the first time, as researchers study the job's long-term health toll.

Training alongside Florida Forest Service cadets, Sylvester Firefighter Cancer Initiative researchers experienced real-world conditions that cannot be fully captured in a lab. The training is now ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health found that certain kinds of long-lasting chemicals firefighters are exposed to may affect the activity of genes ...

UL Research Institutes and its Fire Safety Research Institute today announced a new firefighter training course to address the threats found in the wildland urban interface, also known as WUI, or the ...

SAN ANTONIO – No one takes cancer prevention protocols more seriously than San Antonio Fire Department Lieutenant Isaac Alvarado. Alvarado knows how chemicals and smoke from a fire can affect a ...

The Fairborn Fire Department is partnering with the UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute to conduct a series of live-fire experiments. The experiments begin Friday and will last one week in the ...

The Firefighter Cancer Initiative at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has spent more than a decade researching how cancer affects firefighters, working with local departments across South Florida ...