{"id":251660,"date":"2025-01-15T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/?p=251660"},"modified":"2025-01-17T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:18:00","slug":"banning-pfas-from-fire-fighters-protective-gear-is-a-top-2025-legislative-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/nyspffa_news\/banning-pfas-from-fire-fighters-protective-gear-is-a-top-2025-legislative-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning PFAs from Fire Fighters&#8217; Protective Gear is a Top 2025 Legislative Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-251644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/header-300x66.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/header-300x66.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/header-400x89.png 400w, https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/header.png 404w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Immediate Release:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>January 15, 2025<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>BANNING PFAS FROM FIRE FIGHTERS\u2019 PROTECTIVE GEAR IS A <\/u><\/strong><strong><u>TOP 2025 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITY<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fire fighters across New York and the nation are united in commitment to the protection of the women and men that respond to never-ending alarms to blazes, accidents and medical emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>We have made our case to Governor Hochul\u2019s administration and testified before the legislature about our concerns regarding firefighting equipment and personal protective equipment containing potentially dangerous chemicals and components such as PFAS.<\/p>\n<p>The simple fact is this. We do not believe that we should be in a fire situation where the equipment that is designed to protect us could potentially cause us harm.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Governor, for making our concern, your concern too. Time is of the essence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; For Immediate Release:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 January 15, 2025 BANNING PFAS FROM FIRE FIGHTERS\u2019 PROTECTIVE GEAR IS A TOP 2025 LEGISLATIVE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nyspffa_news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MTL9-13t2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251662,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251660\/revisions\/251662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyspffa.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}