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The Eugene HazMat team puts on a educational demonstration for members of the media on May 28.
HazMat
from A1
Central Oregon, including Cottage
Grove.
Team members receive 160 hours
of specialized training to the techni-
cian level and are equipped to pro-
vide different levels of response,
including petrochemical highway
incidents and supporting other re-
sponders at biological, radiological
and explosive incidents.
Teams also provide outreach
training to local responders and
industry offi cials to ensure commu-
nities are prepared to respond to a
hazardous materials incident and
create safer communities.
“Cottage Grove is really good
from a HazMat team standpoint,”
said Markus Lay, Eugene-Spring-
fi eld Fire Battalion Chief. Lay
assumes control of the region’s
HazMat team as well and conducts
outreach which is mandated by the
State Fire Marshall’s Offi ce.
“On a two-year basis, we go out
and we meet with each one of the
fi rst responding agencies,” he said.
Lay recalled a few instances
when the team has been called to
the Cottage Grove area, one involv-
ing a rolled truck and a chemical
spill.
“That was about seven years ago
and we shut I-5 down,” he said.
Then, fi ve or six years ago, Lay
said he and his team responded to a
Cottage Grove situation in which a
gun shop which had just moved out
of town left behind a large amount
of material used to enhance gun-
powder. “And it was unstable. So,
we came down and took care of
that,” he said.
However, HazMat teams are not
called in for clean-up jobs, Lay
said. His team works more toward
neutralizing and isolating prob-
lems.
“We don’t do cleaning,” he said,
explaining that usually a third-par-
ty cleaning company comes in
and the cost gets passed on to the
spiller. “We mitigate the emergen-
cy so there’s no longer a threat to
the community and then we make
sure it gets passed on to the correct
agency.”
In rural areas, this can often in-
volve drug labs.
“In 1989 when the team was fi rst
set up, that’s almost all we did,”
said Lay. “We were doing meth labs
and drug labs of all kinds.”
And for a regional response team
about the size of Lane County, situ-
ations tend to be rural.
“A lot of our calls are for an un-
known substance. So that’s usually
our largest challenge, is fi guring
out what it is,” Lay said. “It could
be Windex. We don’t know.”
Among the team’s newest tech-
nology is laser spectrometry, which
allows responders to fi nd out what
a random fl uid on the ground might
be.
“That’s probably one of the big-
gest technological advances that
I’ve seen in the last decade,” Lay
said.
Previously, the task of identifi ca-
tion was often simply a process of
elimination with a “tacklebox” of
tools.
“We could prove what it wasn’t,”
said Lay.
The region’s team acts as a con-
sultant and technical resource for
local incident commanders as well.
“On a daily basis, we do phone
consults,” said Lay. “If somebody
doesn’t want all of this (the rig and
equipment) rolling up, but they’re
just like, ‘I’m not sure what to do
here,’… they’ll call me and say,
‘Hey, I have this truck. It’s having
this problem.’ If there’s no risk, I
can guide them through it.”
Lay encouraged city offi cials to
call his team with situations they’re
uncertain about. “We’ll answer
those questions for them or help
them out or point them in the right
direction,” he said.
Lay added that he prefers to of-
fer a service rather than take com-
mand. “We’re just a tool — we’re
not there to take control,” he said.
“To your readers out there, I just
want them to know that we’re here,
we’re a resource for them and make
sure and use us.”
Incident commanders can re-
quest a RHMERT consultation or
response through the Oregon Emer-
gency Response System at 1-800-
452-0311.
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