Wildfire Nomex Being Tested By The Feds For PFAS Chemicals.

EPA Announces First-Ever National Standard to Address PFAS.

This is a topic I have been pushing since I started The Hotshot Wake Up and couldn’t be happier that it is, at the very least, being tested now.

We always joke out on the line that everything around us is probably giving us cancer. The MREs, the retardant, foam, bug spray, bathing in fuel, and our Nomex. When I was on a fire in Jackson Hole, I fed a buf…