Our team has over 45 years of experience fighting for people who ... around instead of putting it out. AFFF (firefighting foam), however, is lighter and acts as a blanket atop the fuel, cutting the ...

Composed of human-made chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) is a type of foam used by firefighters to smother ... Garland Department of ...

called aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), which contains high levels of a persistent, harmful class of compounds known as PFAS. The foam is common in fire departments across Maine. The Portland Fire ...

As the world phases out use of PFAS-based foams in firefighting for the safer but less effective fluorine-free foams (F3), a ...

"It speaks to how pervasive PFAS ... fire suppressing foam containing PFAS. Ankeles even has a bill to find and locate toxic firefighting foam in Maine. "I have a bill to do a statewide inventory ...

As the world phases out use of PFAS-based foams ... match the performance of AFFF in critical fire suppression scenarios,” Professor Dlugogorski said. “The need to improve fluorine-free firefighting ...

A new Alaska state law bans using the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) based firefighting foams. The law, adopted in July 2024, establishes a foam disposal reimbursement program and ...

As the world phases out use of PFAS-based foams in ... not match the performance of AFFF in critical fire suppression scenarios,” Dlugogorski said. “The need to improve fluorine-free firefighting ...