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 WSOR News WSOR Hosts DuPont Tank Car Training In Madison, Wisconsin
A unique training opportunity occurred in Madison,WI during the week June 9, 2008. For five days, the Madison Fire Department, and the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad co-hosted the DuPont Rail Training cars at WSOR’s rail yard at East Johnson Street in Madison. The DuPont Company provided the trainers and the equipment for this valuable training. Mr. Ed Kozey, who has been lead trainer for 20 years with 36 years of experience at DuPont, was assisted by Mr. Joe Murabito with 42 years of experience as an emergency responder. Joe was in charge of the Delaware State Fire School for twenty five years. Sessions were held each day in which local emergency responders and representatives of rail-served industries, and railroad employees participated either in awareness level classroom training or technician level with hands-on sessions atop a specially built tank car with simulated leak situations The hands-on training focused on Level A Technician skills with personnel using leak sealing kits while dressed in Level A haz-mat suits. These participants were technician certified. Although the Madison Fire Department had the highest numbers of participants each day, emergency responders and other area firefighters also participated. Additionally, representatives of Air Products, United Ethanol, Utica Energies, Abitec, and Trans Environmental attended. Also in attendance were representatives from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and the Wisconsin Agri-Service Association also sat in on classroom sessions.s. |
