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Author Topic: Firefighters at I-44 hazmat case say they learned from recent exercise  (Read 325 times)

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Offline darrellmaurina

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    • <em>Pulaski County Daily News</em>
PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (March 9, 2010) — Less than a week after a misstep in a training exercise “killed” an entire duty shift of Waynesville firefighters, members of that same shift responded with extra caution Tuesday evening to a report of a 20-pound bag of suspicious powder found by state troopers on Interstate 44. Waynesville Rural Fire Chief Doug Yurecko received a call to respond and immediately called for backup. “My initial thought was whatever this was, the trooper on the scene had been exposed to it because he tested it to see if it was a drug or not. The second thought was, jeez, this is on the side of the interstate, this is going to be fun,” Yurecko said. After testing, the suspicious substance turned out to be a beeswax and low-density polyethylene compound that is used in detergents and a number of other products, Yurecko said, and most likely fell off a passing truck. “It happened to be the same crew that was involved in the exercise last week. They didn’t park quite as close this time,” Yurecko said. “They all claim to be walking dead bodies now.” Click here to read more on Pulaski County Daily News ...

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Sad to say, this is now the real world we live in whereas our responders must treat every situation with great caution and suspect. I`ll never forget the video of cheering easterners when they learned our trade centers were knocked down and nearly 3000 Americans were dead due to the attack, but our government says this is just a small hand full of extremist's??? Our open borders and our governments lack of addressing the open border issues clearly put our first responders at a greater risk of injury or death for simply doing their jobs. Open borders were great when the world loved America and Americans, but,  how times have changed and how our  representatives seem to be both blind and deaf to our real situation. Our government spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on border crossings separating us from a friendly country (Canada) where we have little to no trouble, but the government  allows the southern border to be crossed at will day and night by illegals, drug traffickers, weapons traffickers, and human traffickers. They allow our citizens to be kid napped or killed on a daily,weakly, yearly basis. November 2010 can not get here quick enough for me.