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Firefighter fought for his people until the end

..."Firefighters in that generation ate smoke and drank firewater because it was a hard culture, but I am sure that the number of cancers that are now appearing would be a lot less had they not had faulty masks," Smith-Daniels said.

"The size of the tumour he had was absolutely off-the-scale enormous.

It can't just be (put) down to hard living," she added.Smith-Daniels wants to ensure that people carry her father's torch.

"We as Canadian citizens need to ensure that military, firefighters, police and paramedics have the equipment they need to keep them safe," Smith-Daniels said.

"Unless average people stand up and not let things like this happen, it will happen again."Smith-Daniels will honour her father's requests not to seek compensation for his passing."We didn't want to take that route because we know that safety for the next generation would have been really important for my dad," she said.More than 100 people, many of them firefighters, attended a funeral for Smith held at St.