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HAZMAT Drill Takes Place In Orange County

Office of the Orange County Executive

A HAZMAT exercise is taking place Saturday morning in Orange County.

Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus will observe an exercise drill of the county’s Hazardous Materials Response Team beginning at 9 a.m. Neuhaus will offer remarks at the start of 25-person exercise scheduled to be held at the Orange County Fire Training Center in New Hampton. The HAZMAT drill will encompass two scenarios, a tanker railcar leak and a clandestine lab incident. The county’s emergency services commissioner and first responders will accompany the county executive. Then on Monday there will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new firefighter training building at the Fire Training Center.

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