Emergency response has always depended on good information. The faster incident commanders can understand what is happening, ...

Several events helped shape FDNY's Hazardous Materials response plan and organization. The 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo cult led to the establishment of FDNY’s ...

Craters & Freighters strengthens compliant dangerous goods shipping across 30+ locations using DGIS software to streamline hazmat operations and reduce risk. Before DGIS, hazmat processes differed ...

BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - Botetourt Fire and EMS was one of the agencies that assisted in the I-81 tanker crash August 12. “We had preliminary information that indicated somebody might be trapped ...

Learning how to proceed if there was an emergency chlorine or sulfur dioxide leak at the Corning Wastewater Treatment Facility was the goal of the Shasta Cascade Hazardous Materials Response Team on ...

FIRE DRILL: The Asheville Fire Department, firefighters from Buncombe County fire departments and several local municipalities and staff from the N.C. Department of Transportation and Norfolk Southern ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The Michigan National Guard’s 51st Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Civil Support Team (CST) trained with the Grand Rapids Fire Department (GRFD) and hazardous materials ...

Serco Inc., a provider of professional, technology, and management services to the federal government, announced today that the Company has been awarded a hazardous materials (HAZMAT) inventory ...

Authorities are investigating a hazardous materials incident at Olympia, Wash.-based Providence St. Peter Hospital Jan. 2 that prompted the hospital to divert patients from the emergency room, ...

During my time as head of hazmat operations for the New York City Fire Department, I learned that New Yorkers expect one thing above all else: to know their safety is never compromised. That principle ...