Fire departments work to get rid of cancer-linked foam extinguisher: "It was like sitting on a bomb"

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Fire departments across the U.S. are changing how they extinguish fires.

For decades, they used foam that contained so-called "forever chemicals" that are now linked to cancer.

More than a dozen states are now working to collect, remove and destroy all of it.

Mark Strassmann has more.

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