'It's a quick death': A retired firefighter describes what white liquor does to the human body

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]uh when you want to tell you what would happen to people that were say engulfed in the in the the wave of of of white liquor that came out of that tank.

[00:00:10]Um you know you can imagine but it's it's it's a quick death for sure being you know completely overran by that stuff. Um the white liquor is is all liquid and um the vapors off of it are essentially moisture um and not a chemical that could harm people, you know, down in the in the areas surrounding the um the mill itself. Um, but by far being touched, it's one of the worst chemicals that you could get on your your body and it it it'll burn through your skin and into your bones. Um so it it it actually attacks the bone structure also.