Increasingly, these local departments have also come to depend upon the counties' hazardous-materials technicians to identify and handle suspected biological and chemical agents like anthrax.
The drill will test the response of the Houston Medical Strike Team, which includes doctors, nurses, firefighters, police officers and hazardous materials technicians.
The Fire Department has one highly specialized hazardous materials unit whose members have more than 300 hours of training -- a consultant's report after the trade center attack said there should be a second -- and a dozen units with hazardous materials technicians, each with more than 80 hours of training.
There were throngs of reporters with bright cameras, hazardous materials technicians wearing space-like suits, and later, detectives from FBI Chicago's counter-terrorism and weapons of mass destruction unit.
LC is the Advanced Life Support Coordinator and a hazardous materials technician of the EMS Division Two of the FDNY.
ALSO on Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, based in St . Louis held that the police could obtain e-mail messages of an accused child pornographer by faxing a warrant to Yahoo, the Internet service, and relying on Yahoo's technicians to produce the materials.
The organization, they argued, would simply not sign a deal in which it did not have a physical presence in the facility and allowed Iranian technicians to use their own materials to take environmental samples.
You needed technicians to operate them".
Training technicians to acquire new maintenance and assembly skills is important for various industries.
The bulk of that money would pay for 106 new county positions, including 78 police officers (55 of them to be stationed at Westchester County Airport) and 7 full-time hazardous-materials technicians.
Police officers cordoned off the bathroom and sent employees home early so that the building could be tested by hazardous-materials technicians.
