10 Minute-Training: Hazmat Incident in Ohio
10-Minute Training
You're IC No. 1 at a hazmat incident at a waste-management facility. What do you do?
By Ed Hartin
B Shifter Buckslip, Nov. 11, 2025
Every month, the B Shifter Buckslip features a 10-Minute Training scenario designed to provide a bit of synthetic experience while enhancing your ability to recognize patterns, identify relevant cues, expectancies and anomalies, set plausible goals, and develop a workable incident action plan.
This month’s 10-Minute Training takes us to Avon, Ohio, for a hazmat incident at a sustainable waste-management facility that has experienced multiple fires and hazmat incidents over the last several years. You are the captain of the first-arriving engine company. While en route, dispatch states there is a large amount of smoke in the area. A facility employee reports an “unknown chemical reaction.”
Additional learning materials accompanying this drill look at the 2024 Emergency Response Guidebook and other hazmat reference resources.
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If you are a Blue Card certified incident commander, check out Blue Card’s Hazmat Modules to become a certified hazmat IC! For more information, call 855.872.5822.
Ed Hartin retired as fire chief with East County Fire and Rescue in Camas, Wash., after a 50-year fire service career. Ed maintains an active international training and consulting practice and is a Blue Card instructor. He holds the Chief Fire Officer designation from the Commission on Professional Credentialing and is a Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers. Ed has undergraduate degrees in fire protection technology and fire service administration and a master’s degree in education. Since 2017, Ed has developed more than 450 10-Minute Trainings to provide ICs with deliberate practice to build competence.