Radiation Training – On land and in the air with Lancaster County

Radiation Training - On land and in the air with Lancaster County

Radiation Training at the PEMA Rodeo

The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) conducted radiation training called Radiological Officers Developmental Emergency Operations (RODEO)

with HazMat 2 Environmental Fire Rescue Company, Lancaster PA.  In addition to several hands-on drills with multiple agencies from around the state the evolutions also included using drones to

perform recon.  Now, this is what we call comprehensive radiation training!

Check out more on Lancaster County Hazmat 2 profiled earlier this year in Hazmatters.

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