Two chemical products are at the center of the issue. Aqueous film forming foam is used at industrial facilities and airports, and by fire departments to extinguish flammable liquid fires such as ...

“We kept it in service for extreme cases.” Greenwood Fire had 48, five gallons buckets of the PFAS firefighting foam that state officials picked up and disposed of in May as part of the ...

A fiery van blaze in Westchester kept firefighters busy for hours after the vehicle caught fire near a residential community.

While the Forest Service, commercial airports and fire departments also use the fire-suppressing foam that contains PFAS, the U.S. military’s choice of a replacement in the coming months will ...

Firefighting foam floated on Lake Union on Wednesday morning after the Seattle Fire Department extinguished a fire at a Seattle Boat Company storage facility. But while the fire’s effects on the ...

Also, no person shall use a firefighting foam that contains PFAS substances for any vapor suppression or firefighting purpose unless such fire is a flammable liquid-based fire, and the ...

DAYTON — Firefighters had to use PFAS-free foam to contain the underground fire that led to the evacuation of the Reibold Building on Wednesday. News Center 7 previously reported that just ...

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