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01/17/2018 / By Earl Garcia

Toxic firefighting foam contaminated the water at a Colorado Air Force base, now veterans and residents are coming down with cancer

A Colorado air force base recently came under fire as water contaminated with perfluorinated compounds (PFC) was associated with the onset of various forms of cancer among people living in close proximity to the base. A Daily Mail report noted that former soldiers, firefighters and residents near the Peterson Air Force base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, were diagnosed with thyroid, […]

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