HazMat Response

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Permalink Reply by Todd McKee on March 31, 2008 at 6:45pm

Excellent Commnet Brother! Why do you think that some People wait longer than they should?

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Permalink Reply by Todd McKee on March 31, 2008 at 6:50pm

Or do you think it is because of the lack of HazMat Education?

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Permalink Reply by Todd McKee on March 31, 2008 at 6:57pm

Your on the ball BRO! I think the majority of the times it is due to the lack of education. Here in Ohio the State has forced us to renew our Fire cards every three years. Yes there is a lot of complaints but we did this to ourselves. We thought a 36 hour fire card with no training was fine for the last 30 years. We need to train! If we remember to train will be safe and training will save lives

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Permalink Reply by Todd McKee on March 31, 2008 at 7:03pm

Great Bro! In Ohio I have to do over 100 hours every 3 years for fire and 40 hours for EMT every 3 years. I am a HAzMat Instructor so I have to do an addtional 10 every year. I train and teach a lot! But I also learn a lot too!

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Permalink Reply by Todd McKee on March 31, 2008 at 7:14pm

I would love copies of your skill sheets! I have the State of Oho Booklet but new ones will always work! I love to train and I train a lot while I am on duty my district reveices about 1500 runs a year and we have plenty of time to train!

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Permalink Reply by Robert E. Shelton on March 31, 2008 at 8:09pm

I agree totally!! Again, everything is predicated on the basics. A basic knowledge of Haz-Mat will help the company officer in his size up to know when to call for help. Because haz-mat isn't as exciting as a good fire not much effort is put into learning what you need to know to be proficient at dealing with it. Heck, we have officers in my department who don't know how to use an ERG!! I think that is why I get so frustrated

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Permalink Reply by Todd McKee on March 31, 2008 at 8:27pm

I undeerstand what your saying brother, my guys always have reminders on how to use the ERG every 3rd day. I am nice enough to provide them for them.

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Permalink Reply by Curt Thompson on April 1, 2008 at 3:36pm

If I may, One issue we had was the Officers were worried about the traveling circus. They felt that we would have 40 guys showing up all in personal vehicles and becoming a circus for the media. (Our team is 15 departments but when an activation occurs people respond from home if they are off duty) That is obviously not the case. What we did was divide the team into three equal smaller teams and you respond when it is your week for a Level 1. All level 2's respond with all available members, and Level 3 involves what maybe multiple teams.

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