Hey,
Excellent news from the Firefighter Cancer Support Network in their hiring Garry Briese as their Executive Director. Garry comes to FCSN with over 36 years of experience in the fire service, most of that time spent as the Executive Director of the International Association of Fire Chiefs. “We couldn’t be more pleased to have Garry join our team,” said Mike Dubron, President of FCSN. “His background will be invaluable to our organization as we grow.”
“FCSN is at a point in our growth where in order to continue expanding we need to begin building a permanent office staff to manage the day-to-day activities,” said Dubron. “The organization is taking a big step forward and we are excited to have Garry and his experience at the helm.”
Additional information about FCSN can be found at www.FirefighterCancerSupport.org.
Bringing Garry on board is a big deal-especially in spite of recent attempts by some self motivated groups ignoring the facts:
…we continue to move forward in educating, training and doing research to further protect firefighters from our known cancer causing operational environments. As it has been clearly proven by numerous respected medical research professionals, firefighters exposed while operating-both inside and out-measurably and clearly increase cancer risk.
Let’s make this as simple and factual as possible. Does smoking cause cancer? Sure-it’s been proven…so then does a fire at a tobacco factory create a cancer causing environment for firefighters members operating? The answer is clearly yes. Now look at the fires you respond to and the combustible toxic petro-chemical based burning materials in that dwelling (furniture, carpeting etc) then ask those few claiming that doesn’t cause cancer to step right up and breathe that crap in their fancy $2000.00 suits.
With Garry Briese on board, our fire service battle leadership (working with folks from the IAFF, IAFC, NFFF, USFA and many more) just got stronger.
Take Care-Be Careful,
BillyG
The Secret List 8-25-11 / 1500 hours
