MILWAUKEE, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tyco Fire Protection Products today announced it will discontinue the production and sale of fluorinated firefighting foams by June 2024, including Aqueous ...

So far, the Air Force has shut down AFFF firefighting systems at 1,038 facilities out of 1,095 that were equipped with the foam, center spokesman Mark Kinkade said in an email to Stars and Stripes ...

The needed repairs include fixes to the facility's fire suppression system. On the morning of the AFFF spill, contractors had begun work on infrared sensors, which activate the fire suppression ...

It stipulates that starting Jan. 1, 2026, the use and storage of AFFF — a fire suppression foam containing a toxic PFAS chemical known as PFOS — will be prohibited at the former air station.

If AFFF had been activated in Upper V, it may have slowed the fire's progress to the aft part of Upper V." "Ship's Force should have attempted to activate AFFF," the investigation said.

The council voted in early September to push for the shutdown of a fire suppression system in Hangar 6, which uses a PFAS-containing firefighting foam, by the end of the month. The concern to shut ...

The AFFF fire suppression system had been intentionally disabled following an "unknown mechanical failure" that raised concerns that it could potentially pollute the environment, according to OSHA ...

1995. In this communication, statements regarding Tyco Fire Protection Products' plans to exit AFFF and transition to non-fluorinated foam alternatives are forward-looking statements.