{"id":708155,"date":"2026-04-06T06:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/708155\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:39:14","slug":"scottsdale-firefighters-thank-council-staff-for-having-our-backs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/708155\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottsdale firefighters thank council, staff for &#8216;having our backs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION \u2014 Scottsdale firefighters face many risks just doing their job. Burning buildings. Car accidents. Heart attacks. Wildfires. Mountain rescues in the Preserve. But that risk also includes cancer-causing materials such as plastics, treated fabrics and synthetic building materials, all of which are among a host of toxins our members are exposed to daily.<\/p>\n<p>In a fire, those materials can release a &#8220;toxic cocktail&#8221; of carcinogens that cling to gear and skin, and lungs.<\/p>\n<p>We want to thank the Scottsdale City Council and staff for understanding that risk and funding a $400,000 annual contract with the Vincere Cancer Center to provide advanced screenings for firefighters. That includes whole-body MRIs, lung CT scans, skin exams and multi-cancer blood testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OPINION \u2014 Scottsdale firefighters face many risks just doing their job. Burning buildings. Car accidents. Heart attacks. Wildfires.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":707202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,235,99847,55332,6526,1589,7600,46683,89130,294877,294879,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,294878],"class_list":["post-708155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-cancer","tag-cancer-screening","tag-carcinogens","tag-firefighters","tag-phoenix","tag-scottsdale","tag-scottsdale-city-council","tag-scottsdale-fire-department","tag-scottsdale-fire-fighters-association","tag-toxic-cocktail","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-were-here-for-you"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116356393649579434","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}