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Alan Robidas was grateful as his team prepared containers of firefighting foam at the New Hampshire Fire Academy to be collected and destroyed. The foam, long used by firefighters nationwide to extinguish fires, was silently at risk of harming crews for decades, he said. “It’s been a long time coming,” said Robidas, a captain in the Concord Fire Department. “It’s been pretty helpful that the state of New Hampshire has worked with area fire departments to finally give us an opportunity to get rid of this stuff. … Some of the effects of PFAS are really invisible until they’re not.” Robidas was referring to carcinogenic or cancer-promoting effects, stemming from PFAS — per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. PFAS has been a component of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) used at fire departments and airports starting in the 1970s. Now, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) and state Fire Mashal FIREFIGHTING FOAM, PAGE 15
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