IIRC, foam went off in this same hangar a few years back, apparently for no reason.
What a mess.
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PLEASE, no details!
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Rarely do these systems with an errant discharge have the new people-and-plane-friendly foam.
See the attached document for frightening statsā¦.
A friend is dealing with this same issue on a discharge in Texas. None of the jets have moved since October, the cityās insurance policy caps out at 20M, and tons of lawyers are involved based on the various companies that had aircraft inside the hangar. Over 100 dead birds on the apron, and an EPA issue because you canāt just rinse the stuff down the drain without everyone being involvedā¦. And the meter keeps running due to loss of charter revenue among other things.
Also canāt walk into the hangar without a respirator and tyvek suit
Foam Concerns.pdf (670.3 KB)
until the stuff is gone.
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Plant-based foam for the win.
Thatās a lot of foam ā¦ when I saw the first pictures of what looked like waves of foam, I thought: āThis picture has to be fakedā to get a internet response. What a mess.
Jim
Well, thatās one bright spot. (Spoken as someone who spent a half hour cleaning bird shit off my airplane in its group hangar yesterday. 
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Well wishes to the injured person. That sounds horrible.
The photo reminds me of Bobby Brady.
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Where did you hear the āCAPSā news?
This explains why Atlantic couldnāt hangar me for the night when I called. Buldoc completed replacing my starter adapter early. We were out of town. Being 13 miles awayā¦no one is talking about this. Iāll find outā¦
Always close your doors/windows in a hangar with fire suppression.
Uffdah.
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One part soap to 10 gallons skipper, not 100ā¦
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New non-PFAS foam exists but most havenāt adopted it yet. Since thereās no standard to clean the old systems considering PFAS is āforeverā. ARFF fire trucks are struggling on how to deal with this issue around the country.