AL HJR53

Recognize the establishment of a state firefighter cancer registry database created by the Alabama Fire College for all paid and volunteer firefighters in Alabama to log exposure information.

Database provides private individual accounts accessible only to the firefighter or database administrator to protect privacy.

Exposure information collected from database entries, excluding unnecessary personal information, will be forwarded annually to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for research studies.

National studies indicate firefighters are twice as likely to develop specific types of cancer due to carcinogen exposure from burned building materials and contents during fire scenes.