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Nonprofit donates ‘StormSticks’ to Chandler firefighters

The 100 Club of Arizona is launching its firefighter cancer prevention campaign is an effort to help protect firefighters from occupational cancer by raising funds to place a “StormStick” decontamination system on every fire truck in Arizona. So far, eight StormSticks, like the one Scottsdale firefighters are demonstrating here, have been donated to the Chandler Fire Department, with two more still needed to fully equip CFD.

Courtesy of 100 Club of Arizona

The 100 Club of Arizona is launching its firefighter cancer prevention campaign, according to a news release.

It’s a statewide community fundraising effort to help protect firefighters from occupational cancer by raising funds to place a “StormStick” decontamination system on every fire truck in Arizona.

So far, eight StormSticks have been donated to the Chandler Fire Department, with two more still needed to fully equip the department.

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