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It's really astounding that carbon tet would have been used this way. I know that certain kinds of fire protection still are themselves dangerous. Foams, of course because of PFAS, but I also recall "fire suppression systems" in data centers that (so I was told) suffocated fires by sucking all the oxygen out of the air. A rather frightening circumstance if you're in the bowels of a data center. Could be the carbon tet was in the mix, actually. Not sure.

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That wouldn’t surprise me, at least in earlier ones. The brutal thing about carbon tet is how it lingers along the ground - great for fire suppression but also great for life suppression.

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