AFFF Firefighting Foam Claims | The Harris Firm LLC

Exposed to Firefighting Foam and Diagnosed With Cancer? You May Have a Claim.

Firefighters, military members, and airport workers exposed to AFFF firefighting foam are filing claims after being diagnosed with kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease, and other conditions linked to the PFAS chemicals in the foam. The Harris Firm LLC is accepting these claims across Alabama — free consultation, no fee unless there is a recovery.

If you worked around firefighting foam — on a fire crew, on a military base, at an airport, or in a plant that made or used it — and were later diagnosed with a qualifying condition, one free phone call tells you whether you have a claim.

What AFFF Is — and What the Lawsuits Allege

For half a century, AFFF was the gold standard for fighting fuel fires. Fire departments trained with it. Military bases required it. Airports stockpiled it. The foam works by smothering burning fuel — and it works because of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, a family of man-made chemicals that never break down. They do not break down in the environment, and they do not break down in you.

Research has associated long-term PFAS exposure with kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease, ulcerative colitis, and other serious conditions. The people with the heaviest exposure are the people who handled the foam itself: firefighters covered in it during training burns, military crash crews, airport rescue teams, and plant workers who made it.

The lawsuits allege the manufacturers knew for decades that PFAS accumulated in human blood and posed health risks, and kept selling the foam without warning the men and women using it. Thousands of those claims are now consolidated in coordinated federal litigation, where personal injury cases are being worked up and resolved in waves.

Who Can Bring an AFFF Claim

The strongest AFFF claims generally combine two things:

1. Real exposure. Years of work as a civilian or military firefighter, airport fire crew member, or military service member at a base where AFFF was used in training or crash response — or work at a facility that manufactured or regularly used the foam. Alabama has no shortage of qualifying histories: volunteer fire departments, Air National Guard units, and airport crews across the state trained with this foam for decades.

2. A qualifying diagnosis. Kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid cancer or thyroid disease, or ulcerative colitis are the core conditions. If you have a different diagnosis you believe is connected, call anyway — the accepted-condition list has evolved as the science develops.

Service records, department employment records, and union records usually establish exposure. You do not need to remember specific dates — you need to remember where you served or worked, and we take it from there.

Compensation in AFFF Cases

Compensation in these claims can account for medical expenses past and future, lost income and earning capacity, and the pain and disruption of a serious cancer diagnosis. Families who lost a firefighter or service member to a qualifying cancer may have a wrongful death claim, which our probate attorneys can coordinate with the estate side under one roof.

No honest lawyer promises numbers, and we will not. What we promise is a claim documented well enough to be valued on your facts — your service, your diagnosis, your treatment — not somebody’s average.

How Your AFFF Claim Works

Handled from Alabama, by an Alabama firm — with national trial co-counsel where your case benefits from it.

AFFF Claims — Frequently Asked Questions

Find Out If You Qualify — Free

One free phone call tells you whether your exposure and diagnosis qualify, and what happens next. No obligation, no fee unless you recover.