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Amissville. These locations are vulnerable and particularly susceptible to mass casualties in the event of a tornado or similar catastrophe or a hazardous material accident in their vicinity.”
Hazardous materials encompass thousands of products we use daily, including highly inflammable petroleum products, bottled gasses, toxic household and industrial chemicals, pesticides, fungicides and fertilizers. Though we have few major road supply routes within the county, with over 1«0 million transportations of hazardous material each year in the United States, a potential exists for accidents on our roads. A recent occurrence in Virginia is a good example of what could happen here.
In Halifax County, a fire department responded to what was believed to be a routine automobile accident with only minor personal injuries. On arriving, a fireman, recently trained in hazardous material incidents, realized that a potentially disasterous situation was at hand. Thrown from the back of the Toyota pickup truck were three small cardboard boxes, some of
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