{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-0875","body_sha256":"38e682f8f54abc0b4a8d58582b548d27aea7192acbe0880eb067b5f771f03d63","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"occupational","topics":[{"id":"occupational","evidence":"sure. What I am submitting is an exposure characterization and a research gap.\n\nCareer fire service personnel do not visit the station, they live in it. They sleep there, in a fixed location, for twenty-four a"},{"id":"infrastructure","evidence":"refighter with over thirty years of service. I worked in fire stations that had commercial wireless antenna arrays mounted on the building. I am not reporting an adverse health effect and I have no diagnosis"},{"id":"research","evidence":"ts. It has not been revisited in eighteen years.\n\nI am asking the Department to fund and conduct that cohort study, to characterize aggregate occupational RF dose across the fire and EMS environment, to assess the "},{"id":"section-704","evidence":"ure limit, which was built around a public assumed to be passing through. Under Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 their employer is barred from declining the installation on h"},{"id":"standards","evidence":"an RF environment with attention to implanted cardiac devices, and to recommend mandatory pre-activation and post-activation RF survey with disclosure to the personnel assigned to those buildings.\n\nThe at"},{"id":"cardiac","evidence":"assess the ambulance patient compartment as an RF environment with attention to implanted cardiac devices, and to recommend mandatory pre-activation and post-activation RF survey with disclosure to the per"}],"summary":"A retired paramedic and firefighter reports prolonged station-based antenna exposure without claiming illness. Requests a firefighter cohort study, aggregate occupational dosimetry, ambulance-device assessment and mandatory RF surveys; cites Section 704 and an unfulfilled union research request.","reviewed_at":"2026-09-26T00:33:07Z","review_method":"Source-matched AI review of 50 complete new comment bodies; four attachment-only submissions remain pending. Exact supporting passages; attachments not reviewed.","review_source_sha256":"1efefe5778e8e4e94e40b713d4ff40128659d3cc29e22a924a530e4f8a2cfd29","source_url":"https://rfsafe.net/hhs-comments/data/catalog.json","scope":"Original comment body; attachments excluded"}