Following the lead of San Francisco's supervisors and mayor, SF Assembly member Matt Haney has proposed a law, almost certain to pass overwhelmingly, that will protect firefighters' lives from their own protective firefighter clothing.Haney's bill would ban cancer-causing chemicals, helpful as they are to make firefighter turnout gear more fire-resistant, from ever being used in such gear again. That gear is supposed to protect them.
To prove it, Haney invited still active Sacramento Fire Captain Carl Jewell, who has lymphoma. It's now in remission. But who knows for how long?"As you can imagine, it was very devastating for our family. And, two little girls, trying to break the news to them that I have cancer and I don't know how it's gonna turn out, is the hardest thing that I've had to do," said Captain Jewell.Retired SF firefighter Tony Stefani is also a cancer survivor.