Shrapnel From Blast Set Stage for April Refinery Fire
Rather than race to the scene, Superior, Wisconsin, Fire Chief Steve Panger went straight to fire department headquarters when an April 26 refinery explosion rocked the community.
Rather than race to the scene, Superior, Wisconsin, Fire Chief Steve Panger went straight to fire department headquarters when an April 26 refinery explosion rocked the community.
Despite being given up for dead by its previous lessee, the Beaumont Fire/Rescue Training Center is on track to reopen in late July, nearly a year since heavy flooding during Hurricane Harvey forced its closure.
In Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish, responsibility for emergency response is divided between two men named Thomas Stone.
Industrial firefighter Cory Campbell says he wishes he had a good story about how he lost his left hand in the line of duty. The truth is he was missing that appendage long before his 12-year career in the fire service began.
Pablo Martin Fritz Oliver and two other responders from the Buenos Aires ERT attended the Shell corporate fire school at Brayton Fire Training Field in April.
An hour before dawn nearly 80 Chevron responders took up positions on three live-fire projects at the southeast end of the fire field – the chemical complex, rail car loading rack and tank and dike project.
Vanessa Aguayo and Antoya Ellis ordinarily address the hottest of the hot button issues that besiege industrial fire protection using cold equations and sophisticated computer models. Chevron’s corporate fire school in May marked their first time wearing bunker gear and breathing apparatus.
Firefighters with Cornerstone Chemicals tackle live-fire prop at Maritime and Industrial Training Center.
LyondellBasell responders use new aerial in Brayton Fire Training Field scenario.
Refineries were an essential part of life where Shell process operator and emergency responder Victoria Reneau grew up.
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