That article forces you to immeadiatley speculate about the source of the fire retardant? Could it be from various ships at sea performing fire drills? Is it runoff from fires within cities where the fire department uses this stuff, ...and the sewage treatment cannot remove it?

Any firemen care to comment on the common uses, frequency of use of retardants?


Sky Guy

When we were out to sea and did our fire drills we never used any items everything was simulated so it wasnt the navy that helped in these fire proof kings..... I can say one thing though you can throw them on the grill and dont have to worry about them burning. If we had to use any of our firefighting agents onboard a vessel we had to dump the material 50 to 75 miles from the coast line. I hope that answers your question about about navy vessels