Fire departments in Sarasota and Manatee counties have teamed up to create the Firefighter Cancer Collaborative. The group is partnering with Sarasota Memorial Hospital to research the increase of cancer diagnoses in firefighters.
Longboat Key Fire Rescue and other local fire departments teamed up with Sarasota Memorial’s Brian D. Jellison Cancer Institute to form the "Firefighter Cancer Collaborative.”
“Our new Firefighter Cancer Collaborative, is the focus on it being truly a collaborative. And not just a program that is one direction, but is bi directional. To make sure that your employees a