An Arizona Supreme Court opinion Wednesday said the court didn't have enough information to uphold a decision that denied workers' compensation to a Goodyear firefighter with cancer.
Gilbert Aguirre has spent nearly 20 years putting out fires. He battled blazes in an airport with burning jet fuel, a home with chlorine kept in the attic and more than one methamphetamine lab, court records show.
So when he got a cancer diagnosis in 2015, he figured his exposure to those materials was to blame. He has chronic myeloid leukemia, a rare form of blood-cell cancer that starts in the bone marrow. He filed a workers' compensation claim that year with Goodyear, where he's been a firefighter since 2007.