Humpday Hangout: The Municipal-Industrial Interface

How should municipal fire departments interact with industrial plant fire brigades or emergency response teams? That’s the subject of this week’s Humpday Hangout with Bill Gustin, Mike Dugan, and the rest of the panel. They will be joined by guests Ed Collett, an engineer in the electric power generation industry, and by John Gross, the fire chief at the Marathon Refinery in Canton, Ohio. This week’s session will focus on such questions as:

• Does your department participate in prefire planning and training with plant emergency personnel?
• Who is in charge–The fire department, plant personnel, or is there a unified command?
• Has your department ever used a plant’s resources, such as foam, off site of their facility?

The panel members also relate their most memorable industrial story.