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 Stories About: advice AND Ask Umbra AND toxics AND US Forest Service
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Fight Fire With Mire
On fire-fighting chemicals |
Umbra Fisk |
28 Aug 2006 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Nearly every day, I can hear slurry bombers (planes that dump bright pink goo at the edges of fires) zooming overhead. I think the bright pink goo is a flame retardant, which seems to recently have gotten a bad reputation as a carcinogen. Not only that, but folks who have dogs here claim their dogs get hot spots from playing in the rivers below where the goo is dropped. What's going on? What is this stuff? Coul ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, toxics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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