Neurological damage in firefighters working in close proximity to a cell tower.
https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/7022117660.pdfMore details:
https://ehtrust.org/firefighter-unions-opposing-cell-towers/Comment round for ET Docket No. 03-137 and WT Docket No. 12-357.
1. My name is Susan D Foster, MSW. My address is 15957 Avenida Calma, Rancho
Santa Fe, California 92091.
2. I am a medical writer and the organizer of a brain study of firefighters exposed to RF
radiation from a cell tower adjacent to their fire station of over 5 years.
3. In 2004 I organized a pilot study of California firefighters who worked up to ninety
(90) hours per week in fire stations with cell towers in close proximity to the two (2)
stations where the firefighters work, eat, and sleep. The men were experiencing profound
neurological symptoms following activation of the towers in 1999.
4. The symptoms experienced by the firefighters, all of whom had passed rigorous
physical and cognitive exams prior to being hired by the fire department, included but
were not limited to the following: headaches, extreme fatigue, sleep disruption,
anesthesia-like sleep where the men woke up for 911 calls “as if they were drugged”,
inability to sleep, depression, anxiety, unexplained anger, getting lost on 911 calls in the
town they grew up in, a twenty (20) year medic forgetting basic CPR in the midst of
resuscitating a coronary victim, immune-suppression manifest in frequent colds and flulike symptoms.
5. The neurological testing and SPECT scans [single-photon emission computed
tomography] of the brain were conducted by Gunnar Heuser, MD, PhD and J. Michael
Uszler, MD. All six (6) firefighters were found to have brain abnormalities on SPECT
scan. The doctors thought they would find areas of limited function in the brain based on
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the symptomatology. Instead, they found a pervasive, hyper-excitability of the neurons
