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Firefighters train to clean up after hazardous-waste spills
November 3, 1983
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
The gas masks indicated that something was wrong.
But Lawrence firefighters wore them Tuesday morning not to guard against noxious fumes but to prepare for the future.
The Lawrence Fire Department conducted a training exercise Tuesday to teach firefighters how to clean up after a hazardous-waste spill.
The training, which is part of Douglas County's Emergency Preparedness Program, occurred north of the city in Clinton Parkway and Drag Strait Road.
Firefighters from Fire Station Number One and Number Four participated in the morning exercise. All Lawrence residents are encouraged to classes today and three days next week.
During part of the exercise Tuesday, firefighters were told that a truck carrying a flammable corrosive liquid entered through a drainage pipe into a creek.
During the exercises, the firefighters were told to determine what the liquid was and then stop it from flowing into the creek
TO STOP the flow of the chemical
and to prevent it from spreading, the firefighters did three things:
First they built what they called a dam downstream from where the lake is.
After determining that the liquid was lighter than water, firefighters built a dam in the creek by using rocks, mud and muck. Since the contaminated liquid was lighter than water and would float, the firefighters threw the water into the dam, thus allowing only the water to pass through.
They then plugged the drainage pipe from which the liquid was flowing with a "Vetter plug."
A Vetter plug is a tube that can be inserted into a pipe. The tube is then filled with air to block the pipe and prevent water from flowing through it.
THE FIREFIGHTERS built a dam of straw downstream from where they had built the reverse siphon dam. The purpose of the dam was to collect oils or other substances that might be flowing downstream .
Fire Chief Jim McSwain said that in an actual emergency, all firefighters would be called to the scene and that crews would be rotated every 15 or 20 minutes to prevent fatigue from occurring.
Firefighters drain toxic chemicals during a training exercise. Stephen
Proposal for night shuttle-bus on campus tabled for this year
By DONNA WOODS Staff Reporter
A proposal to restrict nighttime campus parking and offer shuttle-bus service from peripheral parking lots to campus will not be acted upon this year, the chairman of a Traffic and Parking Board subcommittee said yesterday.
"I sort of anticipated that it would not go through this year," Getter said. "You really can't talk about implementing something for the next fiscal year that's not ready to go at this point."
Getter said that he had expected some negative reaction to the proposal and that the committee now had a plan for the kind of information they needed
Russell Getter, chairman of the board's subcommittee on rules, said that time constraints and potential problems with the proposed shuttle-bus service prompted the subcommittee to table the proposal for this year.
The tabled proposal would have restricted nighttime parking to faculty with nighttime permits. One thousand students could be sold to students for $10 each on either a
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For those unable to buy a permit, free nighttime parking would have been available in parking lots near Memorial and south of Robinson Center.
Free shuttle-bus service to camps would have been provided from those lots.
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