Environmental Health News: Burning irony: flame retardants might create deadlier fires
From Environmental Health News
In one of the deadliest nightclub fires in American history, 100 people died at a rock concert in Rhode Island nearly a decade ago. But the biggest killer wasn’t the flames; it was lethal gases released from burning sound-insulation foam and other plastics.
In a fatal bit of irony, attempts to snuff fires like this catastrophic one could be making some fires even more deadly.
New research suggests that chemicals – brominated and chlorinated flame retardants – that are added to upholstered furniture and other household items to stop the spread of flames increase emissions of two poisonous gases…
Brett Israel
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