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Events List March 2025
The course provides training to proficiency in identifying hazardous, utilizing the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Emergency Response Guidebook to identify hazardous materials risks and protective actions, utilizing hazard communication documents to identify hazardous materials risks protective actions, and determining awareness-level personal and public protective actions.
This calendar may not have the most up to date information. Please contact EPFP Capt. Brian Fenerty at fenertyb@gmail.com for the most up to date information.
Instructed By: Brian McDonough, AMTRAK Regional Emergency Manager
Northeast Region (Canada, CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT)
This is one-day (4 hour class) is for FIRE POLICE. It WILL BE HELD ON
March 1, 2025, 8AM at the Sellersville Fire Dept., 2 North St., Sellersville, PA.
Please contact Bill Spaeth if or how many will be attending.
wfspaeth@gmail.com
ARE YOU PREPARED?
Passenger Train Emergency Response Topics Covered
Law Enforcement and Emergency Response Personnel
- Railroad Right of Way Dangers and Safety Concerns
- Mainline Switches Are Remotely Controlled (Hundreds of Miles Away)
- Passenger and Freight Railroad Relationship
- Emergency Phone Numbers
- Average Frequency of Passenger, Freight Trains, Maps and Schedules
- Railroad Mileposts, Signals, Crossings, Flagging Distances, Bungalows
- Access Points To The Railroad; Secondary Access Points If Primary Is Blocked
- Passenger Loads
- Train Speeds
- Train Crew Orientations
- Challenges of Extraction
- Trespassing on Railroad Property
- Bent Rail
- Pre-Planning
- Pneumatic and Electrical Hazards
- Equipment Diagrams
- Tunnel and Bridge Pre-Planning
- Environmental Issues
The purpose of this course is to make first responders aware of safe, quick clearance strategies for Traffic Incident Management. It gives detailed instruction and examples that involves clearing an incident scene as soon as practical to restore normal traffic flow while also optimizing operational efficiency for all personnel involved in managing traffic incidents.
This calendar may not have the most up to date information. Please contact EPFP Capt. Brian Fenerty at fenertyb@gmail.com for the most up to date information.