Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Hazmat
Late Chicago Chief Honored
Chicago-area firefighters and emergency personnel joined representatives of The Dow Chemical and Union Pacific Railroad to honor the late John Eversole, the former chief of special operations for the Chicago Fire Department....
NIOSH Issues User Notice for Certain CBRN APR Respirators
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has issued a user notice for CBRN APR respirators with the use of suits qualified under the NFPA 1994 standard. ...
Ambulance Transports
Ambulances can be more dangerous than hospitals when it comes to pathogens....
Madison Hazmat Team Wins Fire Award
The Fire Safety Educational Memorial Fund Committee has selected the hazardous materials response team from the Madison (Wis.) Fire Department as the recipient of the 2008 Warren E. Isman Grant....
Ready to Wear
NIOSH’s protective technology lab puts SCBA through the paces to see if they are CRBN ready....
Chemical Reaction
An independent federal agency responds to industrial accidents to investigate and recommend improvements....
Disaster Management
FEMA Releases Early TOPOFF 4 Observations
The Federal Emergency Management Agency met today with state homeland security advisors, state emergency management directors and participants from the Top Officials 4 exercise held in October 2007 to discuss preliminary exercise observations. During the meeting, held in Oklahoma City at the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, officials briefed out and released preliminary exercise observations and lessons learned from TOPOFF 4....
Top Tier
California is introducing regional task forces to bridge the gap between initial-attack teams and Type-1 US&R resources. ...
Nuclear Energy to Grow Slow
Construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States will ramp up slowly over the next decade as project sponsors exercise caution to effectively manage business risks, nuclear energy industry leaders told Wall Street financial analysts....
Terrorism Panel to Air
The National Terrorism Preparedness Institute at St. Petersburg College is presenting Live Response. Live Response is a 60-minute interactive satellite television broadcast featuring a panel of experts who share their knowledge and experiences about terrorism awareness, prevention, preparedness, response and recovery....
GETTING THE 411
The intelligence community has opened the door to fire service to improve information-sharing....
Braced for Attack
United Kingdom emergency-response agencies drew up a CBRN plan, then put it to the test....
