After Glaring Gaps In Protection, Female Wildland Firefighters Now Covered For Reproductive Cancers And Others.

Breast, uterine, basal cell carcinoma, and ovarian cancers now covered.

Today, a big announcement was made to provide all wildland firefighters equal coverage for presumptive cancers. Before today, there had been obvious discrepancies in the coverage of presumptive cancers between male and female firefighters. For many cancers, including reproductive ones, men were covered, and women were not.

The fact that this was even an…