City of Odessa's HazMat 5 Plays Role in Cleanup
Posted on: Thursday, 28 July 2005, 00:00 CDT
Jul. 27--As the Odessa Fire Department worked about five hours Tuesday to contain a 4,235-gallon diesel spill, the city's Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Vehicle was brought into action.
The hazardous materials truck was bought last year with Homeland Security money.
"The reason we called it out there is because it has some absorbent socks that we can lay," OFD Battalion Chief Kavin Tinney said. "When we have a spill, we lay the socks down, and it keeps the spill from going to the other side. It diverts the runoff."
A Thomas Fuels tanker rolled about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at Mecca Street and East Loop 338, about two blocks south of East Highway 191. Three engines, two ambulances, a battalion chief and two HazMat vehicles -- the City of Odessa's and Huntsman Polymers' -- responded.
The city's vehicle, called HazMat 5, was on site not only for containment, but for relief as well.
"We also carry rehab stuff in it as well," Tinney said, adding that the large engine carries chairs, drinks and provides shade to weary firefighters.
HazMat 5 was put into service July 15, 2004. The vehicle is used to respond to hazardous materials calls in a 17-county area. "It's been real good for us," Tinney said. "I know at least two or three times, we've actually made regional responses with it."
In one of those, HazMat 5 made a trip July 8 to Kermit when a woman there found a white powdery substance in her mailbox. The substance was later found to be ground-up Sheetrock.
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