r/Firefighting • u/Quick_Connection6818 • May 04 '25

News Further cuts at NIOSH including firefighters cancer registry

Among the newly terminated are those employees who worked for the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer. After CBS reported on those firings on Friday night, HHS pushed back, claiming that no CDC employee had been laid off and that the firefighter health and safety programs would remain “top priority” for the agency.

A source who worked for the firefighter registry disputed each of HHS’s claims, confirming that they’d been fired on Friday evening and noting that the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer had already been closed to new applicants. The agency’s website affirmed that the program was taken offline.

https://www.progressreport.news/p/rfk-jr-massacre-paves-way-to-give

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u/GabagoolFarmer Engineer / Paramedic May 04 '25

Saving money is more important than saving lives. Never forget what they truly care about

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u/TheArcaneAuthor Truckie, Hazmat Nerd, AEMT May 04 '25

Always remember this: every regulation is written in blood. We have fire codes and industrial regulations because at some point in time someone decided it was worth putting people at risk to save a few bucks. That's how we ended up with Triangle Shirtwaist, or the Station Nightclub, or the Radium Girls, or the Match Girls, the list goes on.

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u/RevoltYesterday FT Career BC May 04 '25

Are they saving money? I see a lot of cuts happening but my taxes haven't changed. My paychecks haven't changed. That money is going somewhere but from my point of view as a citizen, I pay the same with less services.

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u/GreenMtnFF May 04 '25

Actually costing more money. And long term will be a lot higher once the lawsuits catch up and they have to pay all the settlements.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bag8314 May 06 '25

There won’t be any lawsuits, just our dead brothers and sisters. We’ll play the bagpipes, drink a drink and forget how we fucked ourselves by thinking Trump will fuck someone else.

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u/GreenMtnFF May 06 '25

I wasn’t meaning fire service-related lawsuits, more all the suits for wrongful termination, not following the federal government’s personnel rules, CBA’s, etc. I’ve read in a few places that that’s a huge unaccounted for cost of this government (in)efficiency thing. But it won’t be fully accounted for until later in his term / after he’s out of office.

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u/Mindless_Air8339 May 04 '25

They are saving money to lower taxes for billionaires and corporations. You will pay the same in taxes and receive less services.

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u/Zealousideal-Shift47 May 04 '25

You're not seeing a return because it's slowing the growth of the debt. You and I have effectively been borrowing money, largely from China to pay for these programs.

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u/Mindless_Air8339 May 04 '25

You probably believe lowering taxes on the wealthy creates job too, right?

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u/swiggertime Truck Captain May 04 '25

S — Save Money

L — Life Safety

I — Incident Stabilization

P — Property Conservation

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u/18SmallDogsOnAHorse Do Your Job May 04 '25

Fuck now I need to retake those officer courses 🤣

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u/shovelingtom May 04 '25

You got the order wrong. It’s SPIL.

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u/SmokeEater1375 Northeast - FF/P , career and call/vol May 04 '25

This made me chuckle.