What agency led the training? Westmoreland County Community College Public Safety Training Center who provided a Pennsylvania State Fire Academy instructor and who serves as
J. Travis Carricato retired from the Columbia Fire Department as an operations division chief with 25 years of emergency response experience, including nine years serving
Hazmat Training Debrief will give you a quick recap of interesting hazmat training going on. This week we look at recent training conducted by Scott
Michael Wilson joined the fire service in 2003 and jumped from hazmat ops to hazmat technician in 2013. At the start of Covid in 2020,
Hazmat incidents involving rail cars don’t happen often, but when they do they are often major incidents. When fire departments and hazmat teams need to
Firefighter hazmat training is fraught with problems, not the least of which is how to conduct meaningful training that keeps hazmat responders safe and makes
Formed in 1980, Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County Hazardous Materials Response Team 800 grew from an initial 15 volunteer members to 70 members today. Still volunteers, the
Many of us have seen the videos of European firefighters attacking burning vehicles with a blanket rather than water or foam. And for many, that
Central Florida’s Seminole County has nearly 500,000 residents protected by the Seminole County Fire Department. SCFD has more than 450 personnel across 20 stations, with
On any given day at the Royal Canadian Mint, Protective Services Sgt. Yan Racette must contend with nitric acid, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, sodium hydroxide