Members of the Brownsville Fire Department are helping protect future firefighters from cancer by participating in a study that pinpoints the chemicals in fires that could cause cancer.

The cancer research study is spearheaded by the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health.

"This study is going to be amazing in how we view our jobs,” Brownsville Fire Chief Jarrett Sheldon said. “We know our firefighters respond to dangerous fires and the risk that they're exposed to at every fire can be dangerous. What we don't know is the long term effects."

Sheldon said researches will also look at how cancers develop over the course of the careers of firefighters.

To do this, researchers will take biological samples to see the types of chemicals firefighters come into contact with.

Researchers hop

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