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Fiskville fears over cancer cluster
Links to media stories about firefighter and residents' exposure to carcinogenic chemicals used in training exercises at  the CFA training centre in Fiskville, west of Bacchus Marsh in Victoria.
Baillieu to call inquiry
Premier Baillieu will order a full investigation of a suspected cancer
cluster at Fiskville. And the United Firefighters Union said
there was no way to deny firefighters had been exposed to cancer-causing
chemicals.
Listen: UFUA National and Victoria Branch Secretary Peter Marshall speaks to 774 Morning presenter Jon Faine.
Claims of cancer cluster from chemicals burned at Fiskville CFA training centre
Former
CFA chief Brian Potter discusses the revelations that many CFA
firefighters who trained at Fiskville have suffered serious cancers.
Listen to: Brian Potter interviewed on 774.
Kids seek answers to dad's early death
Former CFA Fire Chief Brian Potter is worried he and his colleagues might have been exposed to cancer-causing chemicals.
CFA accused of buying contaminated home in Fiskville
The CFA has been accused of buying a home that borders the Fiskville site because it was contaminated.
Fiery questions need answers
The
deaths at Fiskville are a matter of public conscience. Toxic chemicals
used at the Country Fire Authority training town could be linked to
cancers.
I was healthy before Fiskville
"I
had to light all the fires and burn the chemicals as part of my job.
I'd tip in 44-gallon drums and breathe in all those fumes, and I'd be in
the smoke tunnel as well." Keith Hodge, 80, from Bendigo, was a pad
supervisor at Fiskville from 1970-198.0
My family had a right to know the truth
Bronwyn Don lost her first husband, Robert Penna, to an aggressive cancer in 1997. He was a CFA instructor at Fiskville.
CFA failed to warn of dangers
The
Victorian Country Fire Authority's alleged failure to tell past workers
they had been exposed to cancer-causing chemicals at a training base
may have cost lives, says a former CFA chief officer who has cancer.
CFA investigates Fiskville cancer claims
Victoria's
Country Fire Authority (CFA) is investigating allegations that at least
17 people contracted cancer because of their contact with chemicals the
authority used at its training centre west of Melbourne.
CFA cancer claims
"For 15 years now I wasn't sure what might have been the cause of my illnesses ...."
Fiskville cancer fears haunts south-west CFA veterans
Dozens
of south-west firefighters are nervously awaiting investigations at the
Country Fire Authority's Fiskville complex to determine if they could
have been exposed to carcinogenic chemicals.
Country Fire Authority in cancer time bomb claim at Fiskville
"I
have heard myself that Fiskville used to take chemical by-products from
industry and use that for simulated exercises where firefighters would
hone their skills for chemical spills."
'We heard a whoomph . . . a drum flew in the air'
Former CFA Chief Officer Brian Potter recalls his days at Fiskville with wife Diane at the memorial for killed firefighters.
Fire is not the only enemy
Fiskville
is where about 40 people lived, and breathed in the fumes from these
drums in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Arab oil crisis had sent
fuel prices soaring and the CFA used whatever would burn to train
firefighters.
CFA failed to warn of dangers: ex-officer
He
initially drew no link between the illnesses and their work at a CFA
training base in Fiskville, western Victoria, where firefighters used to
burn a range of waste oils, potentially containing chemicals such as
benzene, toluene, xylene and phenol.
Ballarat fire chief's cancer fear after deaths linked to CFA Fiskville
However,
Mr Pearce is pleased federal legislation has been introduced to help
protect firefighters from certain types of disease.
CFA chemicals linked to cancer deaths
Victoria's Country Fire Authority stored cancer-causing chemicals 30 years ago that have been linked to deaths of firefighters.
WorkSafe acts as Fiskville cancer claim toll hits 15
CFA chief
Mick Bourke says the organisation will do everything it can to support
those who may have been affected by working at Fiskville.
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