Garrett County Haz-Mat Training

September 19, 2007

Garrett County Public Safety Conducted a mock Haz-Mat Drill involving a chemical trailer crashing into a school bus. All local Haz-Mat teams were involved in the excericise. Those including Oakland, Grantsville, and Eastern Garrett Fire Departments. Also Allegany Haz-mat team weas involved.The goal of the excercise was to gather the first responding departsment and critique an actual incident involving a hazardous chemical.

Companies Involved:

Garrett County Public Safety

Maryland Emergency Management
Oakland Volunteer Fire Department Haz-Mat
Eastern Garrett Volunteer Fire Department Haz-Mat
Grantsville Volunteer Fire Department
Allegany Haz-Mat team
Garrett Memorial Hospital
Maryland State Police
Garrett County Sheriffs Office

Northern Garrett Rescue Squad

WVU Plane Simulator
Live Fire Training
October 27, 2005

Above: Deep Creek and Friendsville Firefighters train on the aircraft simulator and the fire pit,
Firefighters had to extinguish a wheel, engine and cabin fire, and a "pit" fire that simulated a fuel spill
Companies that participated in the Live Fire Exercise were:
Deep Creek, Oakland, Accident, Grantsville and Friendsville

Garrett County Disaster Drill
October 29 2005
WISP Ski Resort

The Scenario for the drill was a plane that was forced to make a hard landing with the possibilty of a terrorist and a hazardous material on board the plane: It was put on by the Garrett County Emergency Management with assistance from MIEMSS, MFRI, WVU, Garrett County Sheriff's Office, Maryland State Police, Garrett Memorial Hospital and Garrett College.

Units Involved in the Drill
Deep Creek VFD
Oakland VFD
Eastern Garrett VFD
Friendsville VFD
Northern Rescue Squad
Southern Rescue Squad
Garrett Medical Transport
MSP Trooper 5 Medevac

Members of the Garrett County Sheriff's Office SRT Team makes entry into the Plane

Deep Creek VFD Engine 31

Deep Creek VFD Squad 35 and Air Cascade 3

Oakland VFD Hazmat Trailer with De-Con Tent
Deep Creek VFD Tanker 36 (behind trailer) and Oakland VFD Truck 44