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10/10/2026

Hazmat Team Hurricane Deployment

Palm Beach County, FL - PBCFR says a Type 1 HazMat strike team made up of
FF/HazMat techs from Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, and Delray Beach deployed to the Florida Panhandle to stage for hurricane response.

The team departed for Tallahassee less than 24 hours after receiving deployment orders.

Media story here: https://tinyurl.com/52u7yk5v

10/10/2026

Tire Fire with ARFF for Foam

Hazard3: The chemical emergency response e-service (CERES) app includes the ability to model products of combustion including tire fires.

Email [email protected] if you’re interested in CERES for your team.

10/08/2026

A Complete Operating System for Your HazMat Team in One App

- Command board
- Chemical research and databases
- Live ICS forms
- Responder GPS / who’s responding
- Plume models
- Wireless air monitoring
- Integrated weather
- Tier II facility data
- Cost recovery
- Decision support tools
- SDS search
- Incident calculators
- Sample tracking
- Air monitoring logs
- HazTox and medical tools
- Rehab tracking
- Control zones
- Messaging
- Staging area manager
- Video conferencing

…and 60 other HazMat/WMD response tools.

Email [email protected] to get your team started.

10/08/2026

Refrigerant Flash Fire Injures 4 Firefighters

Los Angeles, CA - An HVAC technician called 911 to report a refrigerant leak inside a house. An LAFD engine company responded. While firefighters were inside the house investigating a flash fire reportedly occurred injuring four firefighters .

Four LAFD firefighters were injured Wednesday morning after a fire erupted at a home in Silver Lake, officials said.

10/07/2026

Can Your HazMat Team Model Today's Hazards?

HazMat teams are being called to a variety of energy hazards including CNG vehicles, EVs, and battery energy storage systems (BESS).

HazMat teams need access to plume, fire, smoke, and explosion models that match the hazards.

Email [email protected] for if you're interested in technology and training to modernize your team's plume modeling capabilities.

10/06/2026

Hazard3 is proud to be the prime contractor providing clan lab training to DEA Illicit Hazardous Environment Teams along and their state/local partner agencies across the US.

Email [email protected] if your interested in illicit hazardous environment (clan lab) training for your team.

Hazard3 offers courses tailored to law enforcement, fire/hazmat, and crime lab/CSI.

10/06/2026

10/06/2026

EV Fire Thermal Model - Free

The Chemical Emergency Response E-Service (CERES) app has released an EV Fire Thermal model that is included in the free version of CERES.

Email [email protected] if you're interested in CERES for your agency or advanced technical reference course.

10/05/2026

Response Guidance for Plague Added to the ER Playbook

We've posted about "the call" before. When chem, bio, rad, or alternative energy is in the headlines...Chiefs start calling their HazMat team asking about readiness including a plan or procedure.

Response guidance in the ER Playbook is updated daily with including priority updates for emerging threats and recent significant incidents. Agencies using the ER Playbook are invited to monthly training webinars on HazMat tactics, techniques, and procedures.

Email [email protected] if you're interested in a subscription to the ER Playbook for your team.

Learn more about the ER Playbook here: https://emergencyresponsetips.com/er-playbook-1

10/05/2026

Opioid Contamination in a Public Library

Denver, CO - Denver 911 received a call about a sick person in a library. Paramedics transported the patient to the hospital.

Approx two hours later library staff called 911 to report a room inside the library may contaminated with a hazardous substance linked to the earlier patient.

Denver Fire’s HAZMAT team investigated and field testing was reportedly positive for a “powerful narcotics-related substance”’

DFD HazMat conducted decon and the library will remain closed for additional cleaning. Denver Police is investigating.

Hazard3: HazMat teams may need to respond to clan labs, contaminated crime scenes, and drug incidents to assess if a public safety hazard exists. HazMat teams should be prepared collaborate with law enforcement, render the scene safe, and coordinate with the responsible party or AHJ to transfer the scene to qualified environmental or crime scene clean-up company.

The ER Playbook contains response guidance for a variety of illicit drugs.

News story here: https://tinyurl.com/2bjp72j3

📷 by Denver public safety