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Nicola Cherry, an occupational epidemiologist at the university, said in an interview one-in-seven firefighters who fought the wildfire have long-term effects on their lungs. Cherry could not say how long the health problems would be with them.
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“My expectation would be if they were going to get better they would have gotten better by now,” she said. “The balance of probabilities is that those who now have a syndrome that looks a bit like asthma will continue to have those problems.”