After a nearly decade-long legislative fight, Ohio firefighters won their battle to help their colleagues who are battling cancer.
Ohio Governor John Kasich was surrounded by firefighters as he signed the Palumbo Act at the state capitol early Wednesday afternoon.
The law, renamed after Mike Palumbo, a Beachwood fire captain currently battling brain cancer, presumes firefighters diagnosed with certain types of cancer developed the disease as the result of numerous exposures to toxic chemicals at fire scenes.
On Your Side Investigators were the first to share Palumbo’s story as part of our exclusive investigation last February which revealed Ohio was one of just 16 states that failed to recognize the link between fighting fires and cancer.