Tracing Cancer's Cause

[MountainLaurel]

Dave Fowler spent a week in winter 1974 learning to fight fires inside a blackened structure called the Dollhouse. Trainers filled the basement with spent transformer oil and hay, and set them ablaze. Twenty trainees sat upstairs and ate smoke until they were about to vomit or pass out.

"It was like a macho thing -- who was the last one standing," Fowler recalled.

These days, Fowler feels as though he's the last one standing. Thirty friends from the Anne Arundel County Fire Department have died of cancer. Fowler's 19-year-old daughter, Amanda, lost the vision in her left eye to cancer as a baby. And he is dying of lymphoma.

At least 120 firefighters who graduated from the fire training academy in Millersville between 1968 and 1985 have been diagnosed with cancer, and at least 40 have died, according to a Montgomery County legal team that is assembling a potential case.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071401447.html

[donsu]

1. kicking for the truth

nt

[MountainLaurel]

2. How many times

Has this scenario been played out across the U.S., as people realize that their jobs made them and their children sick?

I'm not particularly surprised that Monsanto is at the center of it.