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***MEDIA ADVISORY***
FDNY TO CONDUCT FULL SCALE
HAZ–MAT DECONTAMINATION DRILL
Firefighters train at a simulated chemical attack on a Subway
The New York City Fire Department tomorrow will hold a full-scale training exercise at the FDNY Training Academy on Randall’s Island. More than 100 FDNY members will participate in this drill, which will simulate a chemical attack on a subway.
Roughly 15 units will be responding to the incident and they will be training and evaluated on a
number of categories such as FDNY communications, patient identification and triage, HAZ MAT
response plan, mitigation and decontamination.
WHO: |
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, Chief of Department Peter Hayden, Chief
of Operations Salvatore Cassano, Chief of Special Operations Command John
Norman; Assistant Chief of Training Thomas Galvin; and FDNY firefighters.
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WHAT: |
FDNY HAZ MAT Drill |
WHERE: |
FDNY Training Academy on Randall’s Island |
WHEN: |
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
All news media must arrive no later than 11:00 AM
Press Conference at 11:30 AM
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***PHOTO-OP**
Press Contact: Francis X. Gribbon / Seth E. Andrews, FDNY (718) 999-2056
http://www.nyc.gov/fdny
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