Westmoreland County Hazardous Materials Response Team 800
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...
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
Team 800 responded at 0108 hrs to a cold storage and food distribution warehouse to assist first due companies comprised of equipment from 5 departments for an ammonia alarm going off. First in person...
Friday, October 14th, 2016
Assisting "Crash 121" for airport response.
Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
Assisting Station 105 in Rostraver Township
Thursday, November 4th, 2021
Team 800 members spend hundreds of hours of advanced training every year and have fun doing it!
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
Bill was a long time member of Team 800 and was in integral part of our radiological response and served as a radiological officer. Bill was also State Fire Academy Local Level Instructor
AHA/ASHI CP...
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
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Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
Team 800 dedicated Marine 800 to service September 3, 2019. The Board of Commissioners and retired USCG Security Specialist with the Maritime Security Unit of Pittsburgh christened the landing craft ...
Call history
Assist other Agency
Monday, February 8th, 2016
Team 800 officer requested to Ligonier Township for an ongoing fuel spill situation involving a heating fuel tank. PA DEP, PA Fish and Boat Commission, and the Local EMA also responded to the scene. The incident involved a saturated soil area and required a minor stream side mitigation.
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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 damaged/breached.
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
Team 800 responded at 0108 hrs to a cold storage and food distribution warehouse to assist first due companies comprised of equipment from 5 departments for an ammonia alarm going off. First in personnel made a quick assessment with the facility operations and activated emergency shut down procedure...
Friday, October 14th, 2016
Assisting "Crash 121" for airport response.
Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
Assisting Station 105 in Rostraver Township
Friday, October 7th, 2016
Team 800 Assisting Penn Township fire companies.
Saturday, October 1st, 2016
Assisting Station 78
Tuesday, September 6th, 2016
Decon set up.
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
BY JOE NAPSHA | Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, 9:39 a.m.An Irwin woman is accused of endangering neighbors in her townhouse complex when she tried to get high by cooking a toxic chemical with nasal spray, which police say released noxious fumes.
Friday, July 1st, 2016
Team 800 assisted Hempfield Fire departments with a tar buggy on vehicle MVA on Route 30. The tar emulsion is a water based product that is used for asphalt driveway sealant. PennDot and PA DEP were promptly notified by the Fire Dept Incident Command for cleanup guidance and the spill was mitigated ...
Monday, March 21st, 2016
Team 800 responded to a assist Turkeytown Fire Department in mitigating heating oil tanks that were in proximity to a structure fire and developed a leak into the soil at the fire ground. 11 Team personnel responded to the Monday morning incident and quickly offloaded the leaking fuel into dr...
Monday, February 8th, 2016
Team 800 officer requested to Ligonier Township for an ongoing fuel spill situation involving a heating fuel tank. PA DEP, PA Fish and Boat Commission, and the Local EMA also responded to the scene. The incident involved a saturated soil area and required a minor stream side mitigation.
Monday, January 25th, 2016
Team 800 responded to a request from Chestnut Ridge Fire to assist with a possible fuel spill in Donegal Township. Units were cancelled enroute as local fire was able to mitigate the problem with initial response.
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...
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