Westmoreland County Hazardous Materials Response Team 800
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...
Monday, September 12th, 2022
Team 800 responded to a facility in Greensburg City that encountered an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) battery unit failure and worked along with FD ventilation crews to conduct air monitoring and m...
Friday, May 19th, 2023
Tee up and help the Team. Golf Outing 2023Links:Hazmat Golf Outing RegistrationHazmat Golf Outing SponsorHAZMAY Golf Outing Sponsor Letter 2023
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...
Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
THANK YOU! To all that attended the Hazmat Open House on Saturday 4/22. Westmoreland County is celebrating 250 years and Team 800 has been providing Hazmat response for over 40 of those years. Dozens ...
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WCHMRT Member of the Year
Friday, December 20th, 2013
Each year an individual who is not an officer of the team that contributes in a consistent and outstanding way through attendance in response and non-response activities is chosen to show appreciation for going above and beyond the status quo. This year's recipient is William Danley, a three year member of the team. Thank you William for your service.
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Friday, May 19th, 2023
Tee up and help the Team. Golf Outing 2023Links:Hazmat Golf Outing RegistrationHazmat Golf Outing SponsorHAZMAY Golf Outing Sponsor Letter 2023
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, outfalls and retention pond to protect a nearby stream.
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 lifting a piece of aircraft fuselage from the wreckage.
Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
THANK YOU! To all that attended the Hazmat Open House on Saturday 4/22. Westmoreland County is celebrating 250 years and Team 800 has been providing Hazmat response for over 40 of those years. Dozens of responders from all corners of Westmoreland County from West Leechburg, Farifield Township, Ligon...
Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
Team 800 has placed into service a 2022 Ford F250 FX4 truck to be designated as Command 800. The 2013 Chevy Suburban will be placed in service as Squad 800 and the 2000 F350 Squad 800 will be taken out of service.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Westmoreland County Hazardous Materials Response Team 800 celebrates the 250 years of tradition and service of Westmoreland County in southwestern Pennsylvania and the team has been a proud response service since 1980.
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
Technician Eric Gartley
Thursday, October 6th, 2022
Team 800 personnel conducted air monitoring training with HAZSIM equipment and then conducted scenario incident command at 2 locations for an underground storm water storage system and a communication vault.
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 2" of rain we still swung through 9 holes and offered those who attended a rain check.
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.
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 InstructorAHA/ASHI CPR and First Aid Instructor, Hazmat Technician/Instructor, Bill's knowledge and skills will be mis...
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
Check out the PAHAZMAT VODC conference here: https://pahazmat.com/pahmt-2020-vodc/home-2020conf.html
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 for use to mitigate hazardous materials on the various waterways in and adjacent to Westmoreland Cou...
Thursday, October 6th, 2016
McCutcheon Enterprises provides awareness training on confined space entry and equipment familiarization.
Wednesday, September 28th, 2016
Westmoreland County Commissioners dedicate the new HAZARD 800 and hand the keys over to Chief Teacher
Monday, August 8th, 2016
Checking out the new SCBA system integration on Hazard 800
Friday, July 8th, 2016
Team 800 Chief Teacher conducted HAZCOM training under the HMEP Grant covering Safety Data Sheets SDS and the Global Harmonization System GHS that standardizes chemical response information to better aid responders at incidents involving those products.
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Birthdays for June
9th Brian Synan
10th Neal Nichols
12th Bill Yant III
15th Bill Hobaugh
20th Moe Haas
21st Nick Rubino
25th Ken Bacha
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