Yantic Haz-Mat Fire 09/26/07

Sept 26, 2007 - Around 10:00hrs the Yantic Fire Engine Co was dispatched to Phelps Dodge corp for smoke in the building. Yantic crews arrived to find a smouldering fire in the copper-oxide hopper making this incident a Haz-Mat. An extra engine co. from Taftville joined Yantic crews for 7 hours to handle this incident. Yantic & Taftville crews worked with a clean-up contractor, Norwich FMO,CT DEP, and Phelps Dodge officals to mitigate this incident. No injuries were reported, even with temps in the mid 80's and high humidity.

Command Post
Taftville crew on fire suppression standby w/ Yantic Asst Chief
The Copper-oxide hopper in the background of Eng-32