by Danny Stephens | Aug 10, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education, News
For fifty years the fire service reached for AFFF because it worked. Aqueous film-forming foam knocked down flammable-liquid fires fast, and for most of that time nobody asked what it left behind. Now we know — and the ground is shifting under the entire category. The...
by Danny Stephens | Jul 21, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education, News
The electric age has brought lithium-ion batteries into virtually every environment fire departments respond to — homes, businesses, vehicles, parking structures, marine vessels, aircraft, and industrial facilities. With that proliferation comes a fire hazard unlike...
by Danny Stephens | Jul 14, 2026 | News, Fire Suppression Education
The fire service has a contamination problem that doesn’t go away when the fire goes out — and in many cases, doesn’t go away for decades. PFAS — per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are a family of synthetic chemicals that have been a component of AFFF...
by Danny Stephens | Jul 7, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education, News
Last week we looked at the data behind firefighter cancer risk — the statistics that put the threat in hard numbers and trace it directly to what happens on the fireground. This week we look at what departments are doing about it, and how F-500 EA fits into a...
by Danny Stephens | Jun 30, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education, News
Most line-of-duty deaths used to mean exactly what the term implies — a firefighter lost in the act of fighting fire. That’s no longer the leading cause of death in the profession. It’s cancer. In 2023, 72% of line-of-duty deaths among International...
by Danny Stephens | Jun 23, 2026 | Fire Suppression Education, News
Ask any firefighter what agent they reach for on a Class B fire and most will say foam. It’s been the answer for decades. And for flat, pooled liquid fires on a hard surface, foam does what it’s supposed to do — blanket the fuel, cut off oxygen, suppress...
