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Repair locker and fire party personnel whose duties covered responding to shipboard fires, taking part in damage control drills may have had exposure to AFFF. For decades, the U.S. Navy used AFFF as the primary extinguishing agent for Class B flammable-liquid fires. Because these teams trained regularly, many handled AFFF repeatedly throughout their service rather than only during actual emergencies.
Repair lockers are shipboard damage control stations responsible for coordinating emergency response during fires, flooding, and battle damage. Personnel assigned to a repair locker or fire party may have contacted AFFF while deploying foam during fuel-fire emergencies, participating in live-fire training exercises, operating foam hose lines or monitors, testing fixed foam suppression systems, refilling or transferring foam concentrate, and cleaning firefighting equipment after drills.
Ships supporting aviation operations were especially likely to use AFFF because of the risk of jet fuel fires, and exposure could occur aboard aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, destroyers, cruisers, supply ships, and naval air stations during damage control training.
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If you served on a repair locker or fire party and have since been diagnosed with one of the qualifying cancers, your service records may support a claim. Repair locker and fire party assignments often placed sailors in direct, repeated contact with AFFF during drills and real emergency response, which is exactly the kind of occupational history that can strengthen a claim. Our attorneys have spent over three decades handling toxic exposure cases. Reach out to ELG Law today for a free case evaluation.