T.O. fireman who died of cancer gets full honours

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Firemen have some of the highest cancer rates of any profession; the fact that they are now recognizing this as a "work-related" health hazard is great (though it took a pretty long time). It will be interesting to see if this trickles down to other professions--I'm thinking about the thousands of miners from in and around my home town who have died of work-related cancer. These deaths far outnumber those who, say, die in mine explosions, but cancer victims seldom get the same kind of memorial attention as the mine accident victims.