5-alarm Task Force!

Last week, I re-leased our interview with Bill Banks, a former Battalion Chief with Ft. Lauderdale Fire, who provided me with my first, real education in the cancer dangers that firefighters and other first responders face. Today, I am proud to follow that interview with my interview with Cynthia (better known as “Cindy”) Ell.Cindy Ell is a former firefighter/paramedic in Anne Arundel County MD and a founding critical care paramedic at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has been investigating and studying occupational exposures & their results for over 25 years. However, after own diagnosis of a line-of-duty cancer, she saw it as the opportunity to serve as both a first responder advocate and the founder the Fire Fighter Cancer Foundation. She now works to raise on-the-job cancer awareness to all first responders, but especially to firefighters. The foundation now works in many areas of the country, assisting afflicted first responders and their families. I am proud to say that Cindy and the FFCN was one of my f