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Fire departments in Murray County will have a chance to try a new firefighting tool, thanks to a donation from area soybean ...
Traditional foam used by many fire departments often exposes firefighters to harmful forever chemicals that don't break down. Meet the 'Dirty 15' countries that could be hit hardest by Trump's ...
Survitec has successfully completed extensive performance testing of new alcohol-resistant fluorine-free fire fighting foam ...
Beginning in 2025, a fire suppressant containing so-called forever chemicals that never break down in the environment ... Aqueous film forming foam is used at industrial facilities and airports ...
Firefighting foam floated on Lake Union on Wednesday morning after the Seattle Fire Department extinguished ... chemicals” that don’t naturally break down in the environment.
Those materials we're talking about are certain kinds of firefighting foams containing toxic PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals," because they don't readily break down in the environment.
DeWine said fire departments have been concerned about storing the foam for years ... contaminated material to high heat and pressure to break the carbon-fluorine bond and leave behind a ...
A fire suppression system inside a hangar at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston malfunctioned Thursday morning, pouring foam onto the adjacent tarmac and covering car doors parked nearby.
A project intended to remove firefighting foam containing harmful chemicals from a fleet of aircraft rescue and fire fighting vehicles ... which take years to break down. Scientific studies ...