{"id":1682,"date":"2009-09-08T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T17:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2009-09-08T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T17:57:18","slug":"hazardous-materials-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1682","title":{"rendered":"Hazardous Materials Training"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>On Saturday, August 29<sup>th<\/sup>, withstanding the summer heat and humidity, the Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) Hazardous Materials Task Force performed their monthly Continuing Education by performing a simulated \u201cLevel-A Entry\u201d.\u00a0 The drill, conducted at the LBFD Training Center on Argonne Avenue simulated leaking cylinder of sulfur dioxide that had been knocked over at a loading dock.\u00a0 Each month, the Hazardous Materials Continuing Education (HMCE) curriculum concentrates on a specialized aspect of a hazardous materials emergency.\u00a0 The simulation of a \u201cLevel-A Entry\u201d brings all the specialized aspects together as a whole.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>At the Command Post, Hazardous Materials Specialists help determine the response objectives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>After the exercise, the \u201centry team\u201d joked that they would prefer a winter simulation.\u00a0 The Level-A entry suits, better known as \u201csauna suits\u201d, protects the wearer from chemical exposure but also encapsulates them to \u201cbake in their juices\u201d.\u00a0 Hazardous Material emergencies are labor intensive and support personnel are needed to dress the entry team and decontamination (decon) teams, stand-by for rescue, decontaminate, dress down the entry and decon teams, and provide medical support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 On Saturday, August 29th, withstanding the summer heat and humidity, the Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) Hazardous Materials Task Force performed their monthly Continuing Education by performing a simulated \u201cLevel-A Entry\u201d.\u00a0 The drill, conducted at the LBFD Training Center on Argonne Avenue simulated leaking cylinder of sulfur dioxide that had been knocked over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}