Pomona firefighter calls for ‘line-of-duty’ status for cancer deaths

Pomona firefighter calls for ‘line-of-duty’ status for cancer deaths

Pomona auxiliary firefighter Trevor Landsdown, diagnosed with occupational cancer, is pushing to have deaths from the job’s health impacts recognised and honoured as line-of-duty. Trevor began his firefighting career in Victoria in November 1982. Just 16 days after his 16th birthday in 1983, he was on the frontlines of the Ash Wednesday bushfires, which claimed 75 lives and destroyed more than 3000 buildings. “Out of that little volunteer statio…