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The National Firefighter Registry
is important for wildland firefighters.

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We know we breathe a lot of smoke
during wildland fire season,

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and we can't call it
just the campfire anymore.

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Smoke is incomplete combustion,

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and incomplete combustion produces
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs.

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This is a large class of compounds, and
we know many of these are cancer causing.

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It is vitally important
that we as wildland firefighters

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join the National Firefighter Registry
so that we can get this data,

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that we can have these studies produced
and understand

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what this wildland smoke
is doing to our lungs and our health

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and possibly the cancer that it is causing
in many of our wildland firefighters today.