Daily News | What you need to know about firefighter deaths, cancer, and ‘forever chemicals’
Any time they answer an alarm call, firefighters face an array of possible dangers: searing flames, collapsing buildings, suffocating smoke. A leading cause of death for firefighters, though, is cancer, likely due to exposure to toxic chemicals while battling fires.
A study in the Journal of Occupational Medicine, published this year, found cancer death rates among Scottish firefighters to be What he found, he said, were the highest levels of PFAS he’d ever seen in any textile. Peaslee was particularly alarmed to find that PFAS from the firefighters’ gear had been transferred to his students’ hands. “We saw a measurable transfer just from rubbing it onto our hands,” he recalled. “A significant quantity. This was startling.”
Manufacturers have used PFAS, a water repellant, in turnout gear for more than two decades. In 2007, the National Fire Protection Association , an international fire codes organization, adopted a standard for the moisture barrier — the middle layer of the turnout gear designed to repel water and oil — that requires it to withstand ultraviolet light for 40 hours without degrading.
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