This article is the second in a series, A Fire Hose of ‘Forever Chemicals,’ which can be seen in entirety here. In a wooded ...

To ensure that the toxic foam didn’t escape into the nearby Fore River and accumulate in aquatic species like it has by the ...

Concern has since spread to PFAS in many other sources with a focus on aqueous film-forming foam used for decades by firefighters ... known as AFFF or “A3F”, and created a program to collect ...

Maine also banned AFFF in firefighter training, but through the preceding decades “we trained with foam because it was required,” Graves said, referring to the voluminous standards the NFPA ...

He says AFFF foam wasn’t used for the kinds of ... better breathing apparatuses and provide extra sets of uniforms, so firefighters can change between jobs. But he’s also learned to appreciate ...

Given the widespread contamination, persistence, and environmental impacts associated with the use of aqueous film forming foams (AFFF) containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), there is ...

Firefighters from southern Maine and New Hampshire come to this site to build essential skills, and they leave behind a wake of chemical foam. For decades, aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF ...