Emergency Planning and Release Reporting

Farmington Hills Fire Department James Neufeld

ACRONYM Expertise

• Have you ever seen so many acronyms' in one spot????

• Acronyms that open more windows of acronyms etc., etc., etc..

How We Respond

• Pre Incident Surveys • Sara Title III 302 Facilities • Tier II Reporting • LEPC Local Emergency Planning Committee • Fire Prevention • Fire Chief • Hazardous Materials Coordinator • National Preparedness System

EPCRA is

• Emergency planning

• Emergency release notification

• Hazardous chemical storage reporting

• Toxic chemical release inventory

Emergency Planning

• Community Emergency Response Plans • Describe response procedures • Designate a community and facility

coordinator • Provide training with responders • LEPCs update annually

Emergency Release Notification

• Notify LEPC/SEPC of release

• 355 Extremely Hazardous Substances

• 700 hazardous substances

Hazardous Chemical Storage Reporting

• Safety Data Sheets SDS

• 500,000 products

• Threshold quantities require Tier I or II

• Updated annually through LEPC

Toxic Chemical Release Inventory

• Tracks management of toxic chemicals

• Submit to EPA annually

Knowing What We Know RMP

• Risk Management Plan Due to Ammonia & Nitric Acid (Under Clean Air Act)

• 40 CFR Part 68 Risk Management Program

SPCC Also Necessary

• Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure

• Aboveground storage capacity exceeds 1320 gallons

• Underground storage capacity exceeds 42,000 gallons

• If the facility could reasonably expect to discharge oil into or upon the navigable waters of the United States.

PIPP Required

• Pollution Incident Prevention Plan • Many of these plans overlap • Thus see (ICP) Integrated Contingency

Plan • There is a rule allowing the ICP to

integrate all the information for Federal, State and Local

• Confusing to a Fire Guy

No Real Surprises

• Due To Reporting, plans are in place

• We know this location is a high hazard

• 704 Placard on buildings

• Site Specific drills & or Table Tops

Who Is Playing

• Local Fire Department • Local Police Department • Regional Fire Departments (Mutual Aid) • Hazardous Materials Team (regional) • EPC Emergency Preparedness

Commission • LEPC Local Emergency Planning

Committee

Who Is Playing

• DEQ Department of Environmental Quality • MDOT Michigan Department of

Transportation • MSP Michigan State Police • USCG United States Coast Guard • EPA Environmental Protection Agency • Rail Road (whose tracks are adjacent)

Who Is Playing

• NIMS National Incident Management System

• National Preparedness System

Pre Incident Size-Up

• RECEO-VS • Rescue • Exposures • Confinement • Extinguishment • Overhaul • Ventilation • Salvage

2012 Emergency Response Guidebook ERG

• Anhydrous ammonia 125 1005 • TOXIC; may be fatal if inhaled, ingested

or absorbed through skin • Vapors from liquefied gas are initially

heavier than air and spread along ground. • Fire If tank, rail car or tank truck is

involved in a fire, ISOLATE for 1 mile in all directions

2012 ERG

• Diesel fuel 128 1993 • HIGHLY FLAMMABLE: Will be easily

ignited by heat, sparks or flames • Fire If tank, rail car or tank truck is

involved in a fire, ISOLATE for 1/2 mile in all directions

2012 ERG

• Gasoline 128 1203 • HIGHLY FLAMMABLE: Will be easily

ignited by heat, sparks or flames • Fire If tank, rail car or tank truck is

involved in a fire, ISOLATE for 1/2 mile in all directions

2012 ERG

• Nitric acid 157 2031 • TOXIC; inhalation, ingestion or contact

(skin, eyes) with vapors, dusts or substance may cause severe injury, burns or death

• Spill 1000 ft, 0.6 mi,1.6 mi

2012 ERG

• Nitrogen, refrigerated liquid cryogenic liquid 120 1977

• Vapors may cause dizziness or asphyxiation without warning.

• Vapors from liquefied gas are initially heavier than air and spread along ground

• Spill Consider initial downwind evacuation for at least 330 feet

2012 ERG

• Propane 115 1978 • EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE Will be

easily ignited by heat, sparks or flames & are initially heavier than air.

• Fire If tank, rail car or tank truck is involved in a fire, ISOLATE for 1 mile in all directions

Scenario:

December 11, 2014 3:00p –Skies are

clear– Light wind from north to south. Report of a large fire at Test Food Pro

3257 10th Street with possible tanker on fire.

First Report

• Probably from Police unit • Possibly from Employees • Accuracy will depend upon training • If it is a tanker there are many possibilities • Most of them not good

First Response

• MABAS Mutual Aide Box Alarm System • Automatic based upon agreements • First step by the B.C. Battalion Chief prior

to driving out the door • Additional alarms per updates & needs

Incident Size-Up

• RECEO-VS • Rescue • Exposures • Confinement • Extinguishment • Overhaul • Ventilation • Salvage

Now What???

• Life Safety • Scene Stabilization • Protect the Environment • NIMS National Incident Management

System • Manage the assets responding

Who You Going to Call??

• County EOC Emergency Operation Center • LEPC Local Emergency Planning Committee • PEAS Pollution Emergency Alerting System This call will save you many calls at the state level • Hazardous Materials Teams • USCG Coast Guard • EPA Environmental Protection Agency • Environmental clean up contractor

Who You Going to Call??

• Rail Road • Transport Company

To Do List

• Rescue victims in hot zone • Restrict entry into 1 mile radius • Possibly evacuate everyone in 1 mile

radius • Perhaps protect citizens in place • Confine the fire • Extinguish the fire • Contain & or confine the products

To Do List

• Air monitoring • Water monitoring • Open EOC Emergency Operation Center • Staff EOC • PREVENT-PREVENT-PREVENT