Governor Signs Airport Firefighter Presumption Bill

Firefighters at commercial airports regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration will be entitled to a series of rebuttable presumptions under a bill California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law. The governor on Monday enacted SB 230, by Sen. John Laird, D-Santa Cruz, entitling firefighters at commercial airports to the same presumptions as those covering firefighters at Department of Defense and National Aeronautics and Space Administration facilities. The bill provides all the firefighters with presumptions covering heart trouble, hernias and pneumonia; tuberculosis; blood-borne diseas...