TIMES RECORD • September 18, 2024
The last sprinkler inspections of the Brunswick Executive Airport hangars that use toxic foam to fight fire – Hangars 4, 5, and 6 – reveal all three systems had multiple deficiencies that went uncorrected for more than a year, not just the one involved in last month’s record-setting foam spill. The hangars still using aqueous film-forming foam, which is especially good at stopping fuel fires but contains especially high concentrations of toxic forever chemicals, are dogged by a faulty control unit, aging parts, horn and strobe problems, and non-working flame detectors, inspection records show.