Hazmat Equipment News & Articles

• East Palestine train derailment: Lessons from disaster

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  The incident in Ohio serves as a reminder for all first responders to both train and coordinate early and often with community partners

• Back-to-basics hazmat response (eBook)

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  How to identify the hazard, coordinate response and mitigate hazmat incidents

• Rapid Response: Ind. blast highlights frequency of explosive events

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  Firefighters must remain vigilant at explosion response scenes, particularly when the blast source has yet to be identified

• How to buy hazmat equipment (eBook)

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  Download this FireRescue1 hazmat equipment buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• Video: Exploding cylinders and BLEVEs pose extreme danger for N.M. firefighters

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  Pressurized vessels often necessitate taking a defensive position until the heat source is removed

• Ammonium nitrate: What firefighters must know

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  Follow these 10 steps when confronted with an ammonium nitrate fire

• Ore. FFs respond to hazmat incident, find 1 dead in suspected chemical suicide

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  Some Springfield residents were asked to shelter in place following a hydrogen sulfide release

• Spotlight: 908 Devices provides rapid, reliable chemical threat intelligence to ensure responder safety

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  The company's efforts ensure whenever a responder encounters a highly toxic and unknown threat, they can quickly gain insights to protect themselves and others

• Grant applications for 2021 CHEMTREC HELP Award now open

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  The awards help volunteer fire departments enhance their response capabilities for hazmat incidents

• Rapid Response: Chemtool blaze highlights need for hazmat facility preplanning

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  150+ firefighters responded to the Rockton, Ill., plant explosion, a scene reminiscent of West, Texas

• How to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning

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  Know the common sources and symptoms, immediate treatment options, and how to prevent CO poisoning

• EMS World Expo Quick Take: Bouvier’s guide to household hazards

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  Ken Bouvier, NRP, offers the dos and don’ts to treating household hazmat scenarios and emerging threats

• Beirut and beyond: Planning for explosives in your community

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  4 steps to prepare for a fire involving hazardous or potentially explosive materials

• 'We don't seem to learn': Beirut explosion echoes West, Texas, tragedy

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  Few significant crackdowns on chemical storage came in the wake of the 2013 West explosion, which killed 12 firefighters

• Rapid Response: Beirut blast serves as stark reminder of the power of energetic materials

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  Firefighters must plan the tactical needs for all high-hazard environments in their response area

• UL FSRI releases report on battery facility explosion that injured 8 Ariz. FFs

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  Researchers used first-person accounts from responders to inform recommendations for firefighter safety at ESS sites

• Hazmat basics: 10 keys to effective firefighter response

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  A measured, deliberate, intensive approach to identifying, training for and responding to a hazardous materials incident for the fire service

• Pa. FFs discover numerous decaying containers of acid during fire call

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  Firefighters said there were "too many [containers] to count" and the hazmat team was called

• 12 items to keep in your apparatus cab

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  Fire officers can't remember everything, so here's a list resources to have in your first-due rigs

• Hazmat response: Initial location and identification of hazard facilities

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  Resources to identify and preplan facilities with hazardous materials that can threaten community safety

• Q&A: Back-to-basics hazmat response efforts for firefighters

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  Battalion Chief Martin Ranck outlines the three hazmat response levels and underscores the importance of interagency and industry partnerships

• Know your role: Hazmat response levels

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  Detailing the roles and responsibilities associated with awareness-, operations- and technician-level response

• 4 FDNY paramedics nominated for award after rescuing man from CO-filled basement

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  The FDNY nominated the paramedics for the Daily News Hometown Heroes award for saving the unconscious man from lethal CO exposure

• Hazmat team responds to Ind. crash involving truck carrying hydrochloric acid

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  First responders were concerned the acid would contaminate a nearby river or come in contact with damaged power lines

• Hazmat team unable to find source of 'irritant' that affected 20 at Mass. college

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  One of the college's buildings was evacuated due to a gas-like odor that led several to experience trouble breathing

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