2024 Conference Program
THURSDAY – MAY 2, 2024
8:30 AM Pre-Conference Seminar (at the hotel)
Air Monitoring for First Responders “When Meters Matter”
Scott Russell & Dan Warchol
The Meter Guys the is hands-on meter training program for Hazmat personnel and industrial workers. This class provides students with the skills and competencies needed to properly use a multi-gas meter, understand the readings, and interpret the implications of such during an emergency response. You will learn things you did not know about metering through actual hands-on chemical metering. Each student will have a meter in their hands versus huddling around a table looking at one meter. Correction factors, cross sensitivities, and poisoning of sensors will be explained. Students will get a street-smart chemical and physical properties foundation to enhance their metering capabilities. The hands-on and interactive nature of this class brings metering skills down to what the street level responder needs to know.
NOTE: This is a free pre-conference workshop open to the first 30 conference attendees who register using the separate registration link that will be emailed to each individual after they have registered and paid for the conference.
4:00 PM Registration desk opens in hotel lobby
7:00 PM Welcome reception – Alpine Room
FRIDAY – MAY 3, 2024
7:00 AM Registration desk opens in hotel lobby
8:00 AM Conference Opening Rick Emery, Conference Chairman
CHEMTREC Scholarship Awards CHEMTREC will award six full conference scholarships.
Energy Hazard Training
Chris Greene
Energy Hazards play a role in nearly every emergency we respond to and yet the American Fire Service is still struggling to acknowledge this training gap. Failing to identify energy hazards comes at a considerable cost to our members in the form of near misses and catastrophic injuries. The Fire Service must engage and coalesce on this challenge today to ensure safety for posterity.
US DOT PHMSA Update
Eddie Murphy
An update from the US DOT Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration on current topics of interest, including 2024 Emergency Response Guidebook, HMEP news, Hazmat Roundtable, and rulemaking.
9:30 AM Morning break. Exhibits open!
10:30 AM
Menominee Michigan Warehouse Fire Response
Paul Ruesch and Mike Maas
At about 11:00 PM on October 6, 2022, a large industrial fire broke out in a 560,000 square foot warehouse home to a large paper recycling, specialty chemicals and fire safety products tenants. The fire presented numerous unique challenges and consumed most of the structure, which was located adjacent to the Menominee River, which runs into Green Bay. The treatment plants for Menominee, Michigan, and Marinette, Wisconsin saw spikes in PFAS levels in drinking water drawn from Lake Michigan shortly after fire suppression began, resulting in extensive surface water and drinking water sampling & monitoring efforts to ensure the water was safe to drink. This session will provide an overview of the firefighting operations, which took nearly 2 weeks to extinguish, as well as the Unified Command organization formed to assist in managing the overall response effort.
11:30 AM Lunch Buffet (Provided) Allgauer’s restuarant
1:00 PM Workshop # 1
2:30 PM Afternoon break
3:00 PM Workshop # 2
5:00 PM Exhibitors’ Party
• Complimentary Buffet Dinner!
• Door Prizes!
8:00 PM Hospitality Suite – Alpine Room
SATURDAY – MAY 4, 2024
8:00 AM Workshop # 3
9:30 AM Morning break
10:00 AM Workshop # 4
11:30 AM Lunch Buffet (Provided) Allgauer’s Restaurant
12:30 PM Workshop # 5
2:30 PM Afternoon break
3:00 PM Workshop # 6
4:30 PM Conference concludes Certificates of Attendance awarded to all who attend the entire conference.
