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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by mudchicken</i> <br /><br />Derrick: <br /> <br />AAR/TTC's "Rattlesnake Junction" trains a pretty large cross section of the country's emergency response people....probably THE best place to go learn is at Pueblo. Have now been through the program twice in 20 years...at least one or two of your folks ought to go thru the 80 hour HAZMATOPs program. A few less over-reacting emergency services people would be a welcome sight to this railroader. <br /> <br />http://www.hazmattraining.com/ertc.html <br /> <br />Dirty Feathers <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Not just firefighters or police officers should be involved in this. I belong to the local Amateur Radio Emergency Group, working hand-in-hand with the Emergency Management Agency, the police and sheriff's departments, and the fire departments. We assist them with communications support when their radio channels are swamped. We have also set up an introductory course in Hazmat Awareness, conducted by the fire department under the auspices of the State of Ohio regulations. We will be conducting a Technician course at the end of this month. This is a 2 day course for us. In June, there is a county-wide disaster training, involving a terrorist attack on a CSX train carrying hazardous materials. The plan is to swamp the local hospital with casualties, because not only will there be casualties from the train wreck, but also traffic accidents involving school buses evacuating the students from the local schools. It's designed to test the limits of our resources. <br /> <br />Is it going to be fun? Probably not - but the goal is to make more people aware of Hazmat training and maybe some of them will volunteer to assist the professionals once they've gone through the training. My EGR is in the car along with my SKYWARN Spotter's Guide. <br /> <br />In the meantime, I'll be looking both ways when I cross the grade, not only to see if there's a train coming, but if it's close enough, I might back up before the gates go down and watch it go by. I'll also be looking for those "car scrapers" next to the tracks to see if there's the odd Chevy Impala or Silverado on the ground under it.
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