It would then fill its tanks with water and firefighting foam.
The incident took place in at Fuzhou City Airport in southern China and saw eight fire trucks frantically surround the Fuzhou Airlines plane before spraying the firefighting foam.
And the authorities said one of the two earlier victims was hit by a fire truck while covered with firefighting foam.
The dangerous brew of firefighting foam, black water and toxic contamination is sitting in six giant tanks at a sewage treatment works near Rickmansworth.
By using firefighting foam, the gas station may use the tanks again if lava bypasses the area and it wants to reopen.
Some 800,000 litres of stored firewater, laced with hazardous chemicals and spent firefighting foam, leaked from a separate site into the River Colne last month.
A high-speed chase resulted in a four-hour standoff on U.S. 101 that ended when the police sprayed the car with firefighting foam because they thought the driver had soaked himself with gasoline.
In addition to Scotchgard products, the chemical is used as stain repellant and protective coating on textiles, carpets and leather, and in paper packing, snack-food bags, pet- food bags, firefighting foam and pesticides.
The fire was quelled, in part because of firefighting foam supplied by Seneca Meadows, which keeps the substance on hand in case of a fire at its own tire recycling operation.
It is the forgotten legacy of the inferno at Buncefield oil depot in December - six giant settlement tanks full of spent firefighting foam, black water and a long list of toxic contamination.
