Westmoreland County Hazardous Materials Response Team 800
Sunday, June 18th, 2023
Team 800 supporting the 2023 Westmoreland County Airshow at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport and collaborating with the 3rd CST WMD element to provide hazmat and rescue support. Team 800 began with arri...
Saturday, May 13th, 2023
A Tractor Low Boy combination had a roll away event and jacknifed causing the saddle tank to rupture. Local fire departments placed pads and booms and requested assistance form the team to capture an...
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
Team 800 assisted fire departments at 5th street in Seward PA with an underflow dam and additional pads and booms. The spill was quickly mitigated with pads and booms where they could locate the prod...
Friday, November 11th, 2022
Team 800 responded at the request of Station 6, Westmoreland County, to the area off Tinker Run Park for a smell that had been reported in the area and a sheen on the stream from the day before. Multi...
Sunday, June 18th, 2023
Team 800 supporting the 2023 Westmoreland County Airshow at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport and collaborating with the 3rd CST WMD element to provide hazmat and rescue support. Team 800 began with arri...
Friday, May 19th, 2023
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Saturday, May 13th, 2023
Team 800 assisted Hempfield Township, Westmoreland companies with mitigating a saddletank rupture from a jackknifed tractor and low boy trailer. Several companies spread out to the collection basins, ...
Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
Rescue 800 crew participated in the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport FAA Triennial drill on May 10, 2023. Rescue 800 carries various high pressure, low pressure, pipe and wedge airbags and simulated lif...
Call history
Commercial Structure Fire - Washington Township
Friday, April 4th, 2014
Team 800 responded to a morning fire at a commercial structure in Washington Township at CCF Industries with some minor hazardous material items such as lacquer, glue, small pressure cylinders and paint UN1263 were involved. The Team was requested to help with any run off concerns that may be contributed by the fire. The Team was on scene for about 2 hours assisting on the incident. The scene was then turned over to the local fire department and DEP.
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2016
Assist Vandergrift Borough with response standby. Cancelled enroute.1609 hours.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
Team 800 responded to a tractor trailer that had driven into an embankment and was leaking fuel due to the severe angle of the truck. The team mitigated the fuel that was pushing out of the fill cap of the saddle tank to reduce the flow and placed mitigation measures in the down stream catch basins...
Tuesday, June 30th, 2015
Team 800 responded to assist the local fire department in mitigating a motor and gear oil spill from a tractor trailer accident that involved a passenger car, pick up truck and several vehicles in an automobile car dealership.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
Team 800 was activated to assist Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection with a release of heating oil from a outside container into a creek. The spill was inially reported to the State Police on Monday March 30, 2015 as a possible vandalism.
Thursday, March 12th, 2015
Team 800 activated to assist Stations 20 & 64 for a gasoline spill on Route 22 in Murrysville. Local fire with PennDOT and a representative with the Department of Environmental Protection contained the spill and placed protective measures to prevent infiltration into Turtle Creek.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Team 800 was called to assist New Alexandria, Crabtree, and Bradenville fire departments to provide emergency mitigation for a tractor trailer insulated tank truck carrying 3 products of SAE 5w30 (20,320#, 2911g), SAE 10w30 (11,040#, 1529g), and EP 150 (WD40) (15,920#, 2149g) that had impacted a pa...
Thursday, September 25th, 2014
The Pennsylvania DEP had located a fuel spill and requested local fire companies in the South Huntingdon Township area to assist in containment and location of source. Once local responders arrived on scene they called for assistance of the Team to provide additional boom and location guidance.
Monday, September 22nd, 2014
Team 800 was activated to assist Station 24 with a heating oil truck leaking fuel. Approximately 20 gallons of heating oil released of which 10 gallons was captured in five gallon buckets and 10 gallons that spilled on the roadway that was recovered with absorbant material and placed into asteel dr...
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Team 800 was requested to assist Monessen Police with a Marijuana growing operation in a residential home. 7 personnel responded and implemented air monitoring and water sampling within the structure to ensure conditions were safe for police to complete the search warrant.
Friday, July 18th, 2014
Team 800 was dispatched automatically for a gas line rupture involving a residential service line. A landscaping crew attemting to remove shrubbery around a gas meter pierced the line with a steel digging iron and ruptured the buried steel service line that was 2" below the surface.
Wednesday, July 9th, 2014
Team 800 responded to assist Yukon Fire Department with a dumpster fire that possibly contained unknown chemical containers, The dumpster was filled with debris of cardboard, wood pallets, plastic drums & bags, and other construction type refuse.
Thursday, June 5th, 2014
Team 800 provided airfield crash line support for the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport for June 5.6.7.8 as the many aircraft arrived, practiced and performed for nearly 150,000 in attendence. The team deployed Rescue 800, Hazard 800, Utility 800, and UTV 800.
Tuesday, May 27th, 2014
A truck tractor impacted an embankment and overturned blocking the roadway. The team assisted in mitigating the fluids, batteries and offloading the diesel fuel so the truck could be uprighted. Engine oil covered the roadway but did not enter into any drainage concerns.
Friday, May 23rd, 2014
Team 800 performed an assessment for Station 91 firefighters that were called to a gas well leaking after a vehicle had struck a gas well valve and piping. The initial response of firefighters quickly mitigated the situation with tools and equipment they carry on their apparatus.
Friday, April 4th, 2014
Team 800 responded to a morning fire at a commercial structure in Washington Township at CCF Industries with some minor hazardous material items such as lacquer, glue, small pressure cylinders and paint UN1263 were involved.
Friday, March 28th, 2014
Team 800 was dispatched to assist Station 26 Youngwood to a Tractor Trailer that had ruptured its saddle tank in a collision with a passenger car. Approximately 200 gallons was initially estimated to have been involved, however only one saddle tank was involved and was less than the estimate. Stat...
Saturday, March 8th, 2014
Team 800 was dispatched to what appeared to be oil on the water in Derry Township in the area of the Oasis Road bridge. An individual walking their dog noticed a sheen on the water and called 911. Bradenville and New Alexandria firefighters along with water rescue personnel responded quickly with ...
Friday, February 28th, 2014
Team 800 responded to assist Midway-St. Clair fire department to mitigate a milk tanker that left the roadway and rolled over into a residential structure. The Team offloaded the fuel tanks that were nearly full and coordinated with the DEP on monitoring the milk that flowed from the tank truck.
Thursday, February 13th, 2014
Team 800 was activated to assist Vandergrift for a train derailment involving crude oil and butane cars adjacent to MSI Corporation. The train had derailed on a curve next to the building with one car entering the building and one rupturing causing crude oil to spill next to the facility.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
Team 800 was dispatched to assist Station 32 to mitigate a propane release from one of two 30,000g storage vessels located on the Ferrellgas propane distribution business located in South Greensburg. HAZMAT members controlled the leak with a water fog from a fire department engine and conducted air...
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