Retired Austin firefighter with cancer sues city after being denied workers’ comp

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A retired Austin firefighter who’s battled cancer is now battling the city in court. Crockett Foster was a firefighter for 17 years before he was diagnosed in 2002.
“It was stomach cancer. And it had spread throughout my abdomen,” Foster said. “They ended up removing my stomach and my spleen and part of my pancreas, part of my esophagus, part of my intestines and 19 lymph nodes.”
The city says Foster missed the state deadline to file a wor