Last updated: April 11, 2026
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Nobody said a word about the risks. For over 50 years, military and civilian firefighters have been using aqueous film-forming foam on fuel fires – training exercises, real emergencies, you name it. They worked right in the middle of all that toxic mess. Breathed it in. For years, people drank water laced with chemicals nobody bothered to tell them about. AFFF makers knew their foam was loaded with toxic PFAS chemicals that build up inside people. Court papers filed under MDL No. Legal filings in MDL No. 2873 show that 3M had data proving PFAS toxicity way back in the 1970s. The people who actually had to use this foam? Never warned.
More than 6,000 lawsuits got rolled into federal court. Pentagon records document PFAS contamination at over 700 military installations. Here’s what you need to know about AFFF – what this stuff actually is, who got sick, and whether lawsuits are still an option.