The Fort Worth Fire Department is honoring a longtime firefighter who died of brain cancer linked to his job.
"David was known as the car guy, mechanic guy, that liked to tell stories,” Childs remembered.
One day in January, Childs noticed Greene getting confused, mixing up words and even taking the wrong turn to calls."And they did and it came back that he had a mass in his left frontal lobe and it just blew my mind,” Childs said.In the next few months, they tried everything including chemotherapy and surgery, but the mass kept growing.There was nothing else the doctors could do."It's your friend, your brother, your family.
Greene's death is considered a result of his work."It's a line-of-duty death. He got sick from doing what we do,” Childs said."Many more people are dying from occupational illness than from actual structural firefighting duty. You know, a flashover of a fire, a collapse of a building,” Fort Worth Fire Chief Jim Davis said.
Studies have shown firefighters are far more likely to get certain types of cancer than the general public because of their exposure to hazardous smoke and chemicals.
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