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I was always told that this foam wasn't toxic

• tomatotomato37 7y ago
  The problem seems to be that just because it isn't acutely toxic non-chemist military personal treated it like it wasn't also chronically toxic.
• opwieurposiu 7y ago
  Well if the choice is between getting sprayed with burning jet fuel or sprayed with fluorinated foam I will take the foam every time. Maybe we should save the good stuff like halon and PFAS foam for emergencies and use something more eco for training.
  • jabl 7y ago
    In principle, but otoh it makes a lot of sense to train with the same stuff you use for real. That being said, recently non-flourinated firefighting foams have been developed (based on some sugars IIRC), so there's hope these will be able to replace the old stuff.