Hazmatters Wash. Company Blends In-Person, Online Hazmat Training More than 10 years ago, a small group of hazmat professionals saw a training gap in the industry. Looking at agencies that lack continuing training, they felt the need to provide simple, easy-to-use and entertaining lessons to keep responders safe on events and compliant with the regulations. That was the impetus behind starting PHRT Instruction, […] Written by Phil Ambrose September 7, 2023September 18, 2023
Hazmatters Slovakian Bootstrap Hazmat Survival Team Educating the Public Based in Slovakia, this two-person operation kicked off nearly five years ago with the mission of helping civilians learn to survive a CBRN incident. The project aims to teach civilians the basic principles of modern century personal protection. This consists of handling protective equipment, creating make-shift protective means in times of distress and understanding potential […] Written by Phil Ambrose August 24, 2023August 24, 2023
Hazmatters S. Florida Hazmat Team Covers Huge Mutual-Aid Area Nestled between Miami and Fort Lauderdale is the city of Hollywood, Fla. The city, and it’s fire department, started off small. But that has all changed. Hollywood Fire Rescue was formed in 1924 with 19 men and two pieces of fire apparatus. Twenty years later, at the end of World War II, the city’s population […] Written by Phil Ambrose June 29, 2023August 21, 2023
Hazmatters Training Kentucky Volunteer Hazmat Team Covers 8 Counties In the fire service, volunteers have a history of being resourceful. With funding, staffing and training difficult to procure, being resourceful has been a matter of survival. The same holds true for volunteer-based hazmat teams. And nowhere is that more evident than in the Oldham County, Ky., which sits in the north central part of […] Written by Phil Ambrose June 15, 2023June 15, 2023
Hazmatters Venezuelan Hazmat Team Grew with the Oil Boom It shouldn’t be a surprise that Venezuela’s largest fire department has a substantial, dedicated hazmat team. In fact, it was hazmat that put the city on the map. The northern city of Cabimas was a small fishing village founded by monks in the 1750s. In 1917 crude oil was discovered in Cabimas, and everything changed. […] Written by Phil Ambrose June 8, 2023June 8, 2023
Hazmatters Hazmat Duo Pushes Training, Awareness in Portugal Since 2018, Intervir.Pt has been educating hazmat teams, first responders and anyone who may have to deal with a hazmat emergency. The two-member team is prolific on both social media and education and training events in Portugal. In fact, this spring the group hit the 100,000 views milestone on its Facebook page. And a month […] Written by Randall Kravarik May 25, 2023May 25, 2023
Hazmatters Hazmat Girl Power in Europe, Middle East In 2019 a small group of women set out to take on a big hazmat problem — CBRN. The 10-member CBRN Women are co-located in Norway and Lebanon and tout their passion for the work, their wide knowledge of CBRN and their broad reach being from multiple countries and nationalities. The group is trained in […] Written by Phil Ambrose May 4, 2023May 4, 2023
Hazmatters Military Weapons of Mass Destruction Teams aid Local Agencies Across the United States, the Department of Defense through the National Guard operates 57 Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams. There is one WMD CST for each state and territory, with Florida, California and New York each having two teams. Each team has 22 members who are trained to at least the hazmat tech […] Written by Phil Ambrose January 26, 2023January 26, 2023
Hazmatters Hazmat Training Company the Star of South Texas Springing from an EMS training program, the privately held training company National First Responder Training Complex has extended into hazmat, rescue, OSHA and industrial response training. With 20 highly trained instructors, including hazmat specialists, NFRTC offers hazmat awareness, operations, technician, incident commander and hazwoper training. Fire and EMS training remains at the core of NFRTC’s […] Written by Phil Ambrose January 19, 2023January 19, 2023