harmful class of compounds known as PFAS. The foam is common in fire departments across Maine. The Portland Fire Department is in the midst of that transition, having swapped AFFF in two of three ...

Residents of Brunswick Landing, the site of Maine's worst toxic firefighting foam spill, joined environmental groups to urge lawmakers to quantify the amount of foam in Maine and fund a voluntary ...

Training for a host of different scenarios is a hallmark of firefighting around the globe, and the situation is no different ...

The Appleton Fire Department doesn’t have a good replacement for the PFAS-containing firefighting foam yet. Firefighters use the foam in Class B incidents, or petroleum-based fires, which are rare.

The Environment and Natural Resources Committee unanimously endorsed bills to catalog, collect and dispose of Maine's stockpike of toxic firefighting foam. Spurred on by last year’s Brunswick ...