Sacramento, CA | A level 3 Hazmat situation shuts down a large industrial area in South Sacramento. Budget weakend hazmat team has to reach out with unusual mutual aid requests.  Wednesday morning, the Sacramento City Fire Department was called to Mike and Sons Inc, in the 8500 block of Elder Creek Road, for a commercial trailer fire. When firefighters arrived “they realized the doors were shut and there was a very pungent odor; so they turned this into a level three hazmat which is the highest level of hazmat response that we have”, Niko King, Assistant Chief for Sacramento City Fire Department stated. As things progressed, they contacted the shipper and the property owner discovering t

The 20th annual "Continuing Challenge" Hazmat Workshop is being held at the Sacramento Radisson through Friday, Sept. 11. Hosted by the Sacramento Fire Department, the workshop provides a forum for emergency response teams and other interested individuals to become familiar with the hazmat industry's cutting-edge equipment and services. More than 70 industry groups are in attendance. Walking around the Radisson courtyard, surrounded by advanced computer equipment, detection devices and polymer-lined chemical suits, one wouldn't expect that nearly thirty years ago the industry was practically nonexistent. Jan Dunbar, event coordinator and retired chief of special operations at the Sacram

At 9:40 this morning, a suspicious object was spotted on the light rail and called in by a citizen at the Amtrak station on 4th and I Streets, causing a flurry of emergency vehicles to come to the scene. The Sacramento Police Department responded, and the Sacramento Fire Department, HAZMAT team, Federal Protective Services, District Attorney's Investigator and the FBI were all on the scene. Cars were not allowed into the Amtrak parking lot to allow for emergency vehicle access, however, people on foot were allowed into the station. According to Sergeant Norm Leong of the Sacramento Police Department Public Information Office, Amtrak and light rail will still be running. "First thing the