The East Palestine train disaster has now drawn cancer researchers to Ohio. This is a decades-long study, and researchers are still enrolling firefighters.
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — The East Palestine train disaster has now drawn cancer researchers to Ohio with a decades-long study that is enrolling firefighters.
While the study is enrolling firefighters, it's not just ones who went to the fire and chemical release in East Palestine.She’s a part-time volunteer firefighter in Milton Township, some 30 miles from where a toxic disaster happened four months ago.Four of her colleagues went to the train derailment in early February.“We had two that started showing symptoms pretty quickly, and it’s scary to watch,” D’Amico said.
D’Amico says she also filled out an extensive questionnaire to determine risk factors, not just fighting fires. East Palestine Fire Chief Keith Drabick says none of his volunteers have signs or symptoms of responding, although some signed up for the study. Drabick says he’d been asking since the day after the toxic derailment for exposure testing, separate from the study.
Researchers aren’t currently testing for contaminates from the disaster but will follow firefighters over time for any biological changes from overall firefighting and anything unique from the derailment.
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