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PRESS RELEASE
Westport Fire Chief Christopher Ackley who serves as chairman of the 14 municipality Fairfield County Hazardous Materials Unit announced today the acquisition of a 2010 F-350 pick-up tow vehicle to be utilized to tow a regional firefighting foam trailer housed at the Fairfield Fire Department Headquarters located on Reef Road. The forty thousand dollar tow vehicle was purchased with federal grant monies secured by Chief Ackley.
The regional foam trailer which was allocated to Fairfield County Haz Mat by the Connecticut DEP has been assigned to the Town of Fairfield Fire Department since its arrival five years ago. The foam response trailer which is one of five in the state was most recently used at a methanol tanker accident in Fairfield on Interstate 95 in early November of this year.
Richard Felner Chief of the Fairfield Fire Department said "that this new addition to the regional Haz Mat team fleet will make it easier and safer for his firefighters to tow the foam trailer to incident, and improve the overall operational outcome at emergency scenes as we have witnessed over the past several months".
The Fairfield County Hazardous Materials Unit was the first formally organized hazardous materials response team in the State of Connecticut, has been in existence since the early 1980's, and is based at Westport Fire Headquarters.
Submitted
Deputy Fire Chief
Jonathan Gottfried
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MONTHLY TRAINING REMINDER
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All FCHM Team Members are reminded of the June Training/Meeting which will be NIGHT training beginning at1900 at FRFS. It is scheduled for Monday, JUNE 28, 2010. The tentative topic is set-up and familiarization with Field Com 1.
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