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/RickRI401 Capt. May 04 '25

Additionally, we had to shell out $478.00 in fucking tariffs for hose that we ordered late last year from Canada.

Our budget took a needless hit, and we could have spent that money elsewhere.

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u/PhaedrusZenn May 04 '25

Saved that photo for my coworkers who somehow still think it's other countries that are paying the tarrifs. 

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u/RickRI401 Capt. May 04 '25

Thanks. I'm in RI, we purchased the hose from a vendor in CT who's been great to us. I can't blame them. They just are passing along the bullshit. Now the taxpayers are footing the bill... and I'm one of those taxpayers.