VIDEO: For EMTs, fire departments, and police departments, the best way to learn is to practice.
The Wood County Local Planning Committee and the Wisconsin Emergency Management hosted a Hazardous Material Training Exercise at ERCO Worldwide in Port Edwards.
The Wisconsin Rapid Fire Chief says it’s not just about blocking the roads and getting to the person at the right time. It’s about chemistry and making sure everyone around them is safe. Once the sirens go off it’s time to figure out the situation and solve it before anything else worse happens.
“The scenario today is going to be a truck that loses three cylinders, one is chlorine, one is sulfur dioxide that has been ruptured and they’re going to mitigate that and exercise not only that, but EMS with a victim that has fallen to the gases,” said Wisconsin Rapid Fire Chief Todd Eckes.