Saturday, November 21, 2009
Hazmat
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....
Chemical Reaction
An independent federal agency responds to industrial accidents to investigate and recommend improvements....
Field VOC Detector Raises Sense of Achievement
Scientists at Georgia Tech have come up with a miniature sensor that uses polymer membranes deposited on a tiny silicon disk to measure pollutants present in aqueous or gaseous environments....
What's Hot? Brookhaven Refines Radiation Detection
Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have devised ways to improve the performance of radiation detectors, such as those used by first responders to locate and identify radioactive material....
IAFC and DOT Create Hazmat Fusion Center
The IAFC and the Department of Transportation will develope a new data center that will collect and analyze hazardous-materials incident data to enhance first-responder tactics, operations, policy and training....
Best-Laid Plans
The lessons from a multiagency hazmat call show the importance of learn and learn again....
Disaster Management
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....
D-I-Y Decon
An easily constructed shower system provides necessary hazmat equipment to budget-strapped departments....
Study to Focus on Disaster Resilience
A new Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiative could help avert disasters in Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina and also lead to more information about climate change....
Comment Period Extended for NRF
The Department of Homeland Security has extended the public comment period on the draft National Response Framework from Oct. 11 to Oct. 22....
Supply Chain
Supplying a mass-casualty incident doesn't have to be a disaster....
