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  • 1.  First 30 Minutes: Critical Actions for LHDs in Chemical Spill Response

    Posted 01-29-2025 09:54 AM
    Edited by Sarah Callahan 02-12-2025 03:21 PM

    Hello everyone! Understanding how LHDs prepare for and manage chemical events is crucial to ensuring the safety of communities. With that in mind, I'd love to hear more about the specific protocols your LHD would follow when notified of a chemical spill. What are the immediate steps you would take to address the situation? This could be a valuable opportunity for everyone to share insights, discuss preparedness, and collaborate on improving our collective response strategies. 

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    Check out our latest Blog Post on this topic The First 30 Minutes: Critical Actions for Chemical Spill Response - NACCHO



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    Sarah Callahan MSPH
    Program Analyst - Preparedness
    National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
    Washington DC
    (954)203-8734
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  • 2.  RE: First 30 Minutes: Critical Actions for LHDs in Chemical Spill Response

    Posted 01-30-2025 10:17 AM

    Sarah, great topic!  When we worked with a consortium of LHDs in the St. Louis region to deal with a radiological spill, we learned to our great pleasure that some of our local fire departments/emergency responders we way ahead of us in dealing with something like that, so we always recommend our LHD clients get to know their fire chiefs and EMs.  Our experience was they were very willing to tell (and show) us what they knew and could do in such an event.  It dramatically sped up our ability to respond quickly and wisely.



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    David Reddick BS, CBCP
    Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder
    Bio-Defense Network
    Kirkwood MO
    (314)574-4811
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  • 3.  RE: First 30 Minutes: Critical Actions for LHDs in Chemical Spill Response

    Posted 02-03-2025 11:35 AM

    This is very insightful, thank you so much for sharing!!



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    Sarah Callahan MSPH
    Program Analyst - Preparedness
    National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
    Washington DC
    (954)203-8734
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