London firefighter battles terminal cancer, leading cause of death in profession
Bruinink, who’s been with the local fire department for 22 years, was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer in December 2020. Having no family history of the disease, he remains certain the cancer was attributed to his job.
“There’s so many exposures through our job,” he said, “I’m in my third relapse now, third round of chemo, trying to eliminate it. It’s been quite a battle.”He added that it’s hard to pinpoint which blaze could have resulted in his diagnosis. But, as Bruinink explained, there was one incident and timeline that matches up.
“It was an apple orchard fire,” he said. “I was there the day after the fire, which is actually more dangerous, in some ways, because things aren’t burning anymore and there were pesticides and herbicides that were stored in a shed there and I ended up in the runoff, inadvertently cleaning up holes in that exposure.
“It’s potentially that incident but it’s probably more a cumulative effect of exposure to burn toxins,” Bruinink continued. “With synthetic material, now in construction and in our homes, the toxicity of smoke is outrageously higher than it was in the past.” The LPFFA said firefighters are at a nine per cent greater risk of being diagnosed with a form of cancer and a 14 per cent greater risk of dying from the disease compared to the general population. In total, there are 17 cancers that have been identified as having a greater likelihood of occurring within a firefighter than compared to other occupations.
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