Firefighting Foam is Used For Multiple Purposes Which Include Degreasing Vehicle Maintenance And To Clean Workshop Floors

It is assumed that deadly AFFF firefighting foam was only used to suppress petroleum and jet-fuel fires but it has many uses in the real world

Sunday, July 9, 2023 - Thousands of military veterans, civilian firefighters, and mechanics involved in vehicle maintenance may have been exposed to deadly quantities of AFFF firefighting foam during their occupations over the past six decades. According to a recent article in the NFPA Journal, the magazine that represents the National Fire Protection Association, thought to be the gold standard in providing the most relevant and accurate information about firefighting products and equipment safety, AFFF is thought of by professionals, as an important tool in a firefighter's arsenal and its use was required at "military bases, airfields, oil and gas facilities, and by municipal fire departments." The main idea of the highly-informative article was to make readers aware of the high degree of acceptance and multi-purpose use of toxic firefighting foam. The magazine interviewed Jeremy Souza, a firefighter and deputy fire chief at T.F. Green Airport in Providence, Rhode Island. Souza told reporters that properly using AFFF was possibly the most important element of his job. "Back in the day at the airport, we used this stuff for just about everything short of brushing our teeth," said Souza, who is now an engineer specializing in foam suppression systems at Code Red Consultants, a Massachusetts-based fire safety company. "AFFF is a wonderful degreaser. Take a half gallon of AFFF concentrate, throw it on a garage floor, and hose it down, and the stain is gone. I would say that is more of an airport thing--municipal fire departments would never have dealt with quantities of foam like that. But we had loads of it." Studies show that PFAS forever chemicals have accumulated at facilities that use AFFF foam and then wash it down a drain in a fire truck bay, according to the NFPA.

The NFPA Journal also mentions the "near universal agreement amongst health officials, environmental scientists, governments, and even firefighters" that AFFF firefighting foam causes damage to the environment and to the health of those who use it. Scientific experts agree that AFFF firefighting foam contains PFAS forever chemicals that do not break down in the environment or human body naturally and can bioaccumulate and eventually cause cancer. Hundreds of AFFF cancer lawsuits brought by military veterans, firefighters, and others that have used the product during the course of their occupation allege that coming into contact with the chemical repeatedly over the course of their careers caused their cancer. Firefighters and their family members who have been diagnosed with certain types of cancer may be entitled to lump-sum compensation for lost wages, medical expenses, and pain and suffering by filing an AFFF firefighting foam lawsuit against the manufacturers of the product. Exposure to firefighting foam is thought to cause Kidney cancer, Prostate cancer, Testicular cancer, Lymphoma, Bladder cancer, and other forms of the deadly disease.

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