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NIOSH Dies In The Line of Duty, Smoke Recognition, 3 Little Kids Killed (The Secret List*)

April 1, 2025

All,

As DOGE continues to take action against what they perceive as waste or unnecessary programs, the fire service feels another measurable cut. It appears the NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (and other firefighter programs, discussed below) has died in the line of duty.
(Scroll down for the latest NIOSH LODD reports that have been released)
As of 0500 hours this morning, hundreds of employees have been terminated (or told to expect it), including Firefighter LODD investigations (the Cincinnati office which handles medical LODDs, the Morgantown WV Office which handles traumatic LODDs, and the Pittsburgh office which houses the PPE section), WTC health, and National Firefighter Registry Cancer programs. The union employees get 90 days pay plus severance-non union troops 60 days plus severance.
Created by Congress in 1970 to protect workers, NIOSH studies how to keep workplaces safe. NIOSH is part of the CDC and oversees several firefighter health and safety programs, including the registry to track cancer in firefighters and a health program for people affected by the 9/11 terror attacks.
We thought that the WTC 9/11 health program was re-funded and stable but it appears it may not be. While all of these cuts are measurably impactful, the WTC one is especially upsetting as so many continue to suffer the impacts of America being attacked in 2001.
There is a long history of the fire service strongly supporting the voluntary LODD investigation program and a long history of us fighting to get it properly staffed and funded. NIOSH was created to protect workers.
Watch for more information from your national fire service organizations as all the leadership is certainly aware of today’s actions.
MOST RECENT NIOSH LODD REPORTS RELEASED:
==SMOKE RECOGNITION PROGRAM
 
OPEN TO ALL FIREFIGHTERS—-ZERO COST.
APRIL 21, 22, 2025 0830-1230 (Two Offerings)
The Los Angeles Firefighters Association is hosting this program. There are two days of half-day classes. Every Firefighter, Fire Officer & Chief is encouraged to attend and welcomed.
 
 
 
==3 ILLINOIS KIDS KILLED IN HOUSE FIRE
 
As a sobering reminder that FIRE STILL KILLS and ANY PROVEN PROGRAMS promoting fire safety, survival, and fire department operations should be considered essential. Our hearts go out to the Firefighters who gave it their all to save these kids, and certainly the families of this horrific fire in Carpentersville, Illinois Sunday morning.
 2-year-old, Kayden, 1-year-old, Xander, and Kayden’s twin brother, Jayden all died in this fire Sunday morning.
There were four adults in the home at the time: the father, the children’s grandmother, her boyfriend, and a friend of the grandmother. Several of the adults tried to help rescue the children (who lived in the basement) and suffered smoke inhalation.

Carpentersville fire officials say the fire, which broke out in the basement of the boys’ grandmother’s home, was powerful. “The guys went to work right away,” Carpentersville Fire Chief William Anaszewicz said. “Grabbed what they could to try to put the fire out, start a search immediately of the building.”

Reports were that six people were inside when the fire started. Seeing the magnitude of the fire, a MABAS alarm was called, bringing in resources from all over Kane County.

“Upon arrival, the crews had fire coming out of all four windows of the building here,” Anaszewicz said. “So, their immediate response was to try to put the fire out, and then initiate the searches, then made it in through the front door, and were able to take two of the older victims out, and then conducted the searches in the lower level, where the children were reported.”

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BillyG
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