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Today we had our hazardous materials refresher training class. Here, John and Lowell are looking up a hazardous material in the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG). Our Battalion Chief taught the class at our station. Two more engine companies joined us for the training.










After the classroom portion of the training, our Chief had us set up a decontamination station with two of our engines. We parked them a few feet apart, put a ladder between them and then hung a hoseline down from the middle of the ladder. On the sides of the engines are outlets that we put nozzles on to discharge water to the center of the engines. If we had to decon people at an incident, we could have them stand in the center and then they would be showered with all three nozzles.