COUNTYWIDE : Firefighters Support New Training Site
More than 40 firefighters showed area politicians Friday how they clean up messes made by rail cars leaking propane and by tanker trucks leaking hazardous materials.
The firefighters were trying to gain support in their efforts to open a local training site for hazardous materials specialists.
The California State Firefighters Assn. wants to build a training site either near Camarillo or in northern Los Angeles County, said Capt. Dean Dysart of the Ventura County Fire Department. Firefighters now must travel to either the Monterey Peninsula or San Luis Obispo for a seven-week training program each year.
A new site, which would include earthquake and water-rescue training programs, would cost more than $750,000, Dysart said.
The event, held at Freedom Park in Camarillo, involved firefighters from Ventura and Santa Barbara counties who demonstrated four responses to accidents involving hazardous materials.
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