Toxic “Forever Chemicals” Are Contaminating Most Americans’ Lives

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Toxic chemicals have reportedly been used to make firefighting foam for more than half a century. Although the firefighting foam is effective at stopping dangerous fires, the chemicals used to make the foam have been associated with significant firefighting foam health effects, including some types of cancer. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this with Scott Hardy, President of Top Class Actions.

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More and more reports keep piling in about the dangers of PFOS and PFAS chemicals. And unfortunately the new studies have shown that virtually all American citizens have been exposed to these chemicals and most of us have trace amounts of them in our bodies right now. Obviously these chemicals being everywhere has sparked a ton of lawsuits. And joining me now to talk about one of these lawsuits and the investigations regarding these chemicals is Scott Hardy with Top Class Actions and Scott, as I mentioned, we've got lots of lawsuits out there. Some against corporations, some against, you know, or working with I should say, cities and States because these chemicals are all over the place and, and people don't seem to understand just how widespread they really are and certain members of the population are at a higher risk of being exposed to these than others and that's where we're focusing today. This stuff, PFOS PFAS chemicals are used widely in firefighting foam. So take it from there. Why, why is that such a huge risk for the population?

It is. I mean, we're talking about AFFF, not Alf, which I know is your favorite cat eating alien from the 80s. No, AFFF is the aqueous firefighting foam that firefighters use to combat, could be oil fires, other, you know, fuel fires. It's very common to be used on airports and they use this firefighting foam to, to just completely wipe out any kind of liquid related fire. So this foam, as you said, has PFAS in it. It's been connected to having to C8 in it and we're seeing firefighters around the country coming down with a wide variety of different cancers because we know C8 is carcinogenic. Right? So we know what's causing, or connected to a lot of different cancers. And so now what attorneys are doing is they're saying, hey, if you're a firefighter and you used this aqueous firefighting foam, then there's a good chance or there's a chance that that cancer that you were, that you were diagnosed with may have come from that exposure.

Especially if you were using this a lot. You know, it's used in training a lot. Airport firefighters use these things on a regular basis and use this material on a regular basis. So they're exposed to it regularly, much more than you might think that your, your neighborhood firefighters' using it. But they have to use it as well. If they're going to a car fire, they might not be using water to put that out. They might be using this same firefighting foam. So it's, it could be your, your neighborhood firefighter, it could be an airport firefighter, it could be a military firefighter on a base. All of these people are exposed to this carcinogen, which is in this firefighting foam.

And, you know, you mentioned the military there and I think that's where we're seeing a lot of these cases arise right now is because this stuff is used, you know, by the, by the truckload, almost at military bases. Some of it for training purposes, if you live in an area where there is a military base, usually they have firefighters go out there to practice. You also have the firefighters that are part of the military that use this and so it's not just the, the actual firefighters either there, we're seeing it start to seep out into the communities around these military bases.

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