A Dramatic IRTB Course Success Story

A fire department responded to a location for a "Smoke Condition" inside a building. During their check of the building for smoke, which proved to be negative, the firefighters came across 14 one-gallon plastic containers filled with an unknown substance. The on-scene commander requested the HazMat Unit and upon their arrival they determined the substance in the containers to be urine. The Incident Commander did not think anything of it, nor did the police supervisor at the scene. However, one member of the HazMat Unit had attended the IRTB class and stated that the urine could be a component of a bomb and because of this, the fire team brought in the FBI. Further searches of the house turned-up an additional 20 empty containers and maps and train time schedules of the New York Metropolitan area. The tenant of the apartment is presently in the custody of the FBI and their investigation continues.

"If it were not for your classes, this situation might have been laughed off as a "kook" but because of what our members learned, perhaps, lives were saved." – Department Chief