HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—Lines of fire trucks arrived at a training facility April 30, bringing dozens of Orange County firefighters to receive free skin cancer screenings.
“Occupational cancer is so big in the fire service right now. It’s the number one line-of-duty death for us,” Scott Jennie, with the Firefighter Cancer Support Network told The Epoch Times.
Nearly all skin cancer can be cured if detected and treated at an early stage.
The screenings were made possible by a collaboration between the support network, a Sacramento-based dermatology organization called CalDerm, Vista firefighter Mark Gaffney and the Andy Valenta Melanoma Foundation founded by Caylie Valenta, who lost her firefighter husband Andy in 2022 due to a rare and aggressive form of melanoma….