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Indiana University researchers will use cutting-edge technology and a $1 million federal grant to examine the toll firefighting takes on firefighters' cardiovascular and respiratory health. The results eventually could improve firefighter health and safety, and reduce the number of firefighter deaths that occur in the line of duty. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) awarded the Assistance to Firefighters Grant recently to Joel Stager (pictured here), professor in the Department of Kinesiology at IU Bloomington and director of the Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and IUB visiting scientist Jim Brown, who has been conducting research involving firefighters for four years.
