Hearing Damage and Tinnitus in Emergency Responders

I have hearing damage and tinnitus (pronounced tin-night-us or tin-ni-tus; either is correct) and it has been documented as an occupational injury that was caused by high decibel sounds directly related to on the job noise generators like sirens, air horns, diesel motors, loud radios and power tools and high decibel fire alarm systems inside buildings.

I had been an employee of the City of Boston Fire Department for 32-years and retired with a non-disability pension October 2001. I first started to notice the tinnitus sound back around the early 1980