Rep. Bedsole seeks to protect firefighter death benefits with legislation

Rep. Bedsole seeks to protect firefighter death benefits with legislation

After questionable claims depleted the funds and threatened the solvency of a program that pays death benefits to the families of firefighters, State Rep. Russell Bedsole, R-Alabaster, has filed legislation that will “expand, guarantee and protect those benefits for generations to come,” his release stated. “Years of patchwork amendments and band-aid changes to the law governing line of duty death benefits for firefighters have created loopholes…

Nearly all federal workers who investigate firefighter deaths fired

The Trump administration made cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which also halted a study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases. The post Nearly all federal workers who investigate firefighter deaths fired appeared first on High Country News.

Trump Slashed Team That Investigates Line-of-Duty Fire Deaths

When a firefighter dies in the line of duty, a small team of federal health workers is often called on to pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. That’s what happened after two firefighters died in California in 2020 while searching for an elderly woman in a burning library. It happened in 2023 when a Navy firefighter died in Maryland after a floor… Source

Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths

The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.

Investigators of firefighter deaths fired by Trump administration

This story was originally published by ProPublica and journalist Mark Olalde. When a firefighter dies in the line of duty, a small team of federal health workers is often called on to pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. That’s what happened after two firefighters died in California … Continue reading "Trump laid off nearly every federal worker who investigates firefighter deaths" The post Trump lai…