During 21 years working as a municipal firefighter, “I had hyper-exposure” to foam, recalled Jim Graves, director of training at the Maine Fire Service Institute. Graves entered the fire service at ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intertek, the leading quality solutions provider to industries worldwide, has expanded its ability to provide fire foam testing services for industrial clients by opening a ...

Firefighters risk their lives rushing into burning homes to save others, but a new lawsuit suggests that there are hidden dangers for our crews and the environments they train in. Until recently, many ...

Firefighters across Colorado protect people from devastating fires, but the materials sometimes used to put out the flames could hurt the very communities they're saving. Those materials we're talking ...

Workers from Revive Enviromental and Republic Services open up containers from the Allenstown Fire Department to inspect them for PFAS compounds in the AFFF that they might have during the drop off at ...

Rough estimates place Maine’s remaining volume of firefighting foam with PFAS at upward of 40,000 gallons. Despite a 2020 recommendation by the Governor’s PFAS Task Force to inventory and collect AFFF ...