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2. Firefighting foam - Wikipedia

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   Firefighting foam is a foam used for fire suppression. Its role is to cool the fire and to coat the fuel, preventing its contact with oxygen, thus achieving suppression of the combustion . Firefighting foam was invented by the Moldovan engineer and chemist Aleksandr Loran in 1902.

3. Phos-Chek - Wikipedia

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   Concerns have been raised that Phos-Chek harms fish and aquatic life; and that it causes long-term effects on soils, insects, and microbiology. [15] A group based in Oregon called Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics sued the U.S. Forest Service, claiming the service violated the Clean Water Act by spraying Phos-Chek without assessing the product's harmful effects on waterways.

4. An unseen hazard: State to remove toxic firefighting foam ...

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   Apr. 30—In the early 1980s, Indianapolis firefighter Tom Hanify was part of a training exercise using foam spray to put out a controlled house fire. After Hanify and the crew contained the blaze ...

5. Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid - Wikipedia

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   Fire-fighting foam; Insect baits for control of leaf-cutting ants from Atta spp. and Acromyrmex spp. In 2019, it was decided to only keep one acceptable purpose: [71] Insect baits with sulfluramid (CAS No. 4151-50-2) as an active ingredient for control of leaf-cutting ants from Atta spp. and Acromyrmex spp. for agricultural use only

6. How the U.S. Military Plans to Tackle Its 'Forever Chemical ...

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   The ubiquity of PFAS is due to the fact that the chemicals are used in thousands of commercial products, from non-stick cookware to menstrual products, toilet paper, and fire-fighting foam. When ...

7. Firefighting foam is toxic. Indiana launches new program to ...

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   Indiana has more than 50,000 gallons of firefighting foam that the state now knows is highly toxic. So it launched a new program to help get rid of it.

8. Fire retardant - Wikipedia

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   Class A foam is used as a fire retardant in 2.5 gallon [APW] and [CAFS] extinguishers to contain incipient brush fires and grass fires by creating a fire break. Other chemical retardants are capable of rendering class A material and Class B fuels non-flammable and extinguishing class A, class B, and some class D fires.

9. 70 million Americans drink water from systems reporting ... - AOL

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   Toxic PFAS chemicals are found in drinking water supplies throughout New Mexico. The state's contamination of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances were largely tied to fire-fighting foam at Air ...