Their water poisoned, fed up residents demand answers about toxic fire foam - Ottawa - CBC News

By Julie Ireton, CBC News Ottawa, July 13, 2017

More than eight months after fire destroyed a flea market near Smiths Falls, Ont., the wells of a dozen nearby residents were poisoned with dangerous toxins, and questions still swirl about the regulation of firefighting foam commonly used to smother flames.

The Rideau Valley Marketplace — and everything inside — burned to the ground shortly after 5 a.m. on Nov. 6, 2016. Through his front room window across Highway 43, Cory Read captured the destruction on video. Read, his wife, Elyse Smith, who was six months pregnant, and the couple's four-year-old daughter watched as firefighters from several rural departments struggled to contain the spreading flames.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/fire-foam-smiths-falls-flea-market-1.4201039

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