Seattle airport is using a special cleaning technology to eradicate traces of PFAS. Washington will require the state's 11 commercial airports to remove their PFAS products and replace them by fall 2025, and Seattle is one of the first to try a special cleaning technology. — Photos: ANGELIKA WARMUTH/dpa
Taxiing jet engines groaned on the tarmac, their fumes filling the Port of Seattle's firetruck bays on an early summer day. Snaking hoses connected tanks and filters in a complex cleanup operation.
Over six days, the system flushed a toxic substance from a firetruck as the department became one of the first in the nation to begin to remove firefighting foam concentrates laced with "forever chemicals."
