SC Firefighters Association

Mary Sturgill, wltx

Bucky Mock says hes attempting to avoid various other firefighters from dealing with exactly what he has experienced battling cancer. (Picture: Sturgill, Mary)

Manning, SC (WLTX) nearly exactly a month ago, on July 18, News 19 broadcast the research, labeled as "Cancer: killing our heroes". WLTX looked at firefighters therefore the rate where they get cancer tumors.

There is a brand new initiative within the state to aid obtain the data so poorly required.

Bucky Mock had been identified as having Muliple Myeloma in 2012, last year he stopped their maintenance chemotherapy. He informs News 19, "i desired to lead as normal and productive life as I can."

That desire motivated the 72-year-old to climb very nearly 3, 000 feet up El Capitan and repell straight down. He had been performing that, when the story broadcast.

Now he is on another goal.

He says, "It was after the airing of 'Cancer: Killing our Heroes, ' so when you said you contacted 93 programs and just 20 reacted, And some said they positively could not provide you with any information; we after that decided the ultimate way to have the information is always to go to the firefighter."

Together with the South Carolina Firefighters' Association, they have developed a database where firefighters sign on and self report. Mock says, "it will take a rather short-time to accomplish and in case provides some important information." and then he states, its unknown.

Jason Pope the Deputy Director for the Association could not fulfill for an interview, but he sent this declaration saying: "their state Firefighters’ Association is wanting to-do its part in addressing the growing dilemma of firefighter cancer tumors. May be the task killing all of them? The answer is perhaps. Having less good information inside our profession happens to be a stumbling block for getting presumptive coverage of health, so we have actually produced this study to construct our personal database. One problem we found pertains to volunteer firefighters. If a volunteer firefighter is clinically determined to have disease, he frequently, while you would anticipate, listings his full time job as their profession when starting therapy. We would like all of them to additionally record that they are a firefighter so that the data is tracked. "
Mock describes, "If we could possibly get a presumptive act, presumptive treatment ensures that some people that have firefighting associated disease, they are included in workman's comp."

But before some of that occurs. They require the info for South Carolina.

Inside brand-new struggle, Mock has included this element of the very best methods and cancer prevention speaks he offers around the state. In each talk he encourages firefighters to become listed on the survey and walks them through process. He claims, "i simply wouldn't like people to proceed through the thing I've experienced."