{"id":212375,"date":"2026-06-06T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/212375\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:51:08","slug":"avoca-fire-department-receives-grant-to-replace-firefighting-foam-with-pfas-free-foam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/212375\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoca Fire Department receives grant to replace firefighting foam with PFAS-free foam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AVOCA BOROUGH, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The Avoca Fire Department has received funding from Norfolk Southern Railroad to replace firefighting foam that contains chemicals linked to health and environmental concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The department announced it was awarded a grant through Norfolk Southern&#8217;s Safety First Grant Program to purchase F500 Encapsulator Agent, a PFAS-free firefighting foam.<\/p>\n<p>According to fire officials, the new product will replace older AFFF foam, a firefighting agent that has been widely used for decades but is known to contain PFAS, often referred to as &#8220;forever chemicals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PFAS compounds have been linked to a variety of health concerns and have become the focus of increasing environmental regulations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Department officials said the new foam is non-cancerous and PFAS-free, making it safer for firefighters while reducing potential environmental impacts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This upgrade means safer operations for our firefighters and better protection for our community and environment,&#8221; the department said in a social media announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AVOCA BOROUGH, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The Avoca Fire Department has received funding from Norfolk Southern Railroad to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-212375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}