Westmoreland County Hazardous Materials Response Team 800
Monday, February 21st, 2022
Team 800 responded to Mutual, Unity Township to assist Station 83 Mutual & 36 Pleasant Unity fire departments to mitigate a leaking home heating fuel tank. The resident quickly called 9-1-1 to rep...
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
East Huntingdon Township Home Heating Fuel Leak, Team 800 personnel assisted local FD to mitigate fuel spill in the basement and then provided assistance to construct an underflow dam to collect the l...
Friday, January 14th, 2022
Team 800 responded on 1/14 to a fuel spill involving a reefer trailer diesel tank that was damaged when the trailer had become disconnected from the tractor. Team 800 assisted Station 26 with mitigat...
Saturday, December 18th, 2021
Team 800 was requested at approximately 2000 hrs to assist and support New Kensington City FD with the containment and mitigation of a vehicle accident involving two 55 gallon drums of used oil damage...
Friday, June 10th, 2022
Team 800 performed standby duties for ARFF 121 for the 2022 AirShow in Westmoreland County. 7 members of the team provided response capabilities in R800, UT800, and C800 for practice on June 10, 2022
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
Dear Friend and Supporter:We wish to sincerely thank all the businesses and individuals who help make our 20th annual 2022 golf outing a huge success. Even though we were nearly rained out from nearly...
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
Station 111 hosted a decontamination review in their new station and Team 800 conducted familiarization with the H800 apparatus. Thanks for hosting this informative session.
Saturday, February 5th, 2022
Past Chief and SFA instructor S. Teacher provided refresher training for Station 26.
Call history
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
4 members including the Chief responded to the 0347 call for a Tractor Trailer leaking fuel. The routine call called for Plug-N-Dike, pads and a steel drum to pump off the remaining fuel. The whole incident was cleared in about two hours and a cleanup company was called to cleanup the extent of th...
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Team 800 responded to mitigate and contain a reported ammonia spill at General Products Inc. in Murrysville. Two chemicals were found to be leaking one containing morpholine and another with aqua ammonia at 29% concentration were involved.
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Team 800 and Station 31 responded to the Speers Bridge for a Tractor Trailer leaking fuel at the request of PSP Belle Vernon. Some diesel fuel leaked from the saddle tank and was mitigated by HAZMAT, Fire and Water Rescue personnel with booms.
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Dispatch Assignment: Station 43 (Ligonier), Special Call: Team 800 (Hazmat), Station 42 (Darlington) Location: Route 30 East beginning at Walnut Street, Ligonier Borough Weather: Cloudy 60F. Reported: Fuel Spill on Roadway Rescue 43 assisted with spill containment, and leak mitigation.
Friday, February 25th, 2011
A Hempfield Township incident on Business Route 66 prompted fire response to activate the HAZMAT team to assist in a possible 150 gallon fuel spill from a tractor trailer haling sand in a hopper type trailer.
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Team 800 responded to State Route 22 and State Park Road in Derry Township to assist in mitigating a fuel spill from a tractor trailer that had been involved with a passenger vehicle and subsequently ruptured the saddle tank.
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
0646 hours a placarded double T/T transporting a Class 3 Flammable Liquid flipped the rear trailer on it's side on the West bound entrance ramp to Interstate 70. Stations 25 & 26 responded to control the scene and provide fire suppression and traffic control.
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
HMRT 800 responded to Supervalu on Paintersville Road in Hempfield Township. A leak from an electric solenoid valve on the roof dripping at a rate of about 2 drips per minute sounded an alarm and prompted a manual alarm for evacuation of the facility for about 3 hours.
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Team 800 was activated to assist Station 43 with an unknown chemical odor in a Four Division combination commercial occupancy with apartments and a hair fashion salon. The Team worked in Unified Command with the Fire service personnel for 5 hours to determine a leaking gas powered generator that ha...
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Team 800 was dispatched to the Walnut Ridge Memory Care Center on Route 119 in Hempfield Township for an unknown odor that had caused some patients and care workers to seek medical attention and transport.
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
HAZMAT personnel were on scene for 2 hours to assist in mitigating an oil spill in Loyalhanna Township on Tunnelton Road. An oil filled tote was punctured inside a non-placarded box trailer causing it to distrbute a swath of oil completely covering the highway and bridge over the Conemaugh River.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Adamsburg crews responded late Wednesday to reports of "an unknown substance" discovered in six containers inside a storm drain in a concrete culvert under a bridge at 120 Hamilton St. near Penn Borough.
Monday, May 17th, 2010
Approximately 0906 hours a fire was reported to 911 Dispatch at the Blairsville VFW. The IC for the local fire immediately called for shutting down of US RT22 to begin operations on the commercial structure.
Friday, May 7th, 2010
A vehicle accident involving a coal truck and minivan provided many tasks for several departments responding friday morning. The flipped coal truck poured it's load over 3 lanes of traffic in East and West bound directions.
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Team 800 called to assist in mitigating fuel oil that may be running into Sewickley Creek. Engine Captain 26 requested Team 800 to the scene and DEP was requested by Director 50.
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Tractor trailer accident involving 2 tractor trailers was reported. Police reported alot of fluids on the highway and that a fuel truck was involved. The fluids were from the saddle tank and mitigated by first arriving fire response.
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Minor vehicle accident at the entrance to Eastgate Plaza involving a vehicle that ruptured the side of a Tractor Trailer saddle tank. Team 800 pumped stopped the leak and pumped off the saddle tank into recovery drums.
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Working basement fire reported by AC71 and RIT responded to assist at the scene.
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Structure fire reported with unknown occupancy. Team 800 assisted at the scene as RIT.
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Chimney fire reported and reported that it spread to the walls. Team 800 assisted Hempfield Township Units with RIT.
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