Firefighters deal with risk of "forever chemicals" in equipment 04:04. Inside Fire Station 22 in Bellbrook, Ohio, Lt. Jay Leach helped remove buckets of firefighting foam known as aqueous film ...

AFFF, known as aqueous film-forming foams, is a specialized substance used to extinguish petroleum-based fires that has been in use for decades. “AFFF and its components are associated with a ...

“AFFF and its components are associated with a wide variety of adverse health effects in humans. Exposure … has been linked to serious medical conditions including, but not limited to, kidney ...

However, there are no legal restrictions concerning the manufacturing, selling, or distributing of PFAS-containing firefighting foam or gear. Besides regulations concerning AFFF use, in January ...

The PFAS Alternatives ACT would help expedite the development of PFAS-free turnout gear through comprehensive research, executing development initiatives, and rigorously testing the equipment. It ...

The NFPA requires turnout gear be replaced every 5-10 years. If a department is in the first year of new turnout gear, it would be costly to replace all of them with PFAS-free equipment.

These include firefighting gear and aqueous film ... as an incident taking place in 2019 caused the release of 50,000 gallons of AFFF into the municipal sewer system and subsequently discharged ...

Hangar 6 held 975 gallons of aqueous film-forming foam, or AFFF, containing a toxic chemical compound known as PFOS. The authority in charge of Brunswick Landing has removed firefighting foam ...

Containers of liquid concentrate for aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) sit on a pallet in Concord, N.H., on Aug. 13. The state is hosting take-back events to destroy unused municipal inventories of ...

BOSTON — Even after Gov. Maura T. Healey signed the bill outlawing the sale in Massachusetts of firefighter protective gear treated with PFAS chemicals, the work to remove and restrict the ...