ATLANTA — Atlanta firefighter Cameron Eric Dixon’s family still wonders if better equipment and work precautions could have saved his life.
“If we could break the chain — if we could stop what happened to him from happening to other firefighters, I’m all over it 110 percent,” said Dixon’s brother Geron Alvin Dixon.
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