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“Manufacturers haven’t yet figured out how to make firefighting gear without cancer-causing chemicals.
Still, some city representatives want the administration to commit to purchasing it as soon as it hits the market.
The new gear will be expensive, about $4,000 per firefighter, and departments all over the United States will want it at the same time. It will take some effort to get it, representatives said.
So members of the Board of Representatives’ Public Safety Committee drew up a resolution saying that they, the city’s legislators, and Mayor Caroline Simmons, the chief executive, pledge to swiftly obtain safe gear for firefighters.” …