The Canberra Times of 11 June 2018 reports that according to government briefings from December 2017 “toxic fire fighting foams could have left a legacy of contamination at nine fire stations across the ACT as well as defence department and police facilities”.
The news article states that potentially-harmful polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which were “present in aqueous film forming foams used by fire fighters until they were phased out in 2005”, have “been confirmed at the former Belconnen fire station, and could be present at eight further fire stations.”