NFPA 704

the First Responders would need adequate personal protective equipment to protect their clothing from exposure and respirators high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2002).Another hazard to First Responders that would pose a risk would be explosives and secondary devices. The delivery for these could be low tech devices and the terrorists could attack infrastructure that is key to a population (important buildings, banks, hospitals, factories). WMDs could be used via aerosol devices (sprayers), or if a container of a chemical is broken (tank at a factory etc). The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has devised a voluntary marking system to alert firefighters to the characteristics of hazardous materials stored in stationary tanks and facilities. The system is known as NFPA 704 and uses diamond shaped placards with blue, red, yellow and white to denote different levels of hazards for each category. Blue denotes the hazards to health with a number system from least to most severe, red denotes a fire hazard, yellow is an…

Material Identification Systems that first responders use to quickly identify the material being transported. The first is the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA0 704 system. The second is the Code of Federal Regulations 49 (CFR 49). The NFPA, “is used on storage tanks and smaller containers.” (Hazardous Materials Identifications Systems, (N.D.) The CFR 49, “is used exclusively on containers and tanks transported in interstate commerce. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is…

clothing, as well as within the defendants car. The indication of this scent was found in March of 2009 but the laboratory testing of his clothing did not occur until June of 2014. Regardless of the evidence presented in the court of law that was found by the accelerant canine, this was dismissed because the laboratory testing was done late and was found that the clothing tested negative for liquid accelerants (p. 1). The fire investigator in this case did not follow the appropriate…