Marco Island Fire Rescue issued the following announcement on Sept. 18.
The reliance upon, and use of, radioactive material in agriculture, industry, and medicine continues to increase. As the manufacture, use, and disposal of radioactive material has increased, so has the need to transport it. Consequently, the potential to encounter an incident involving some type of radioactive material has increased.
This training includes radiological basics, biological effects, hazard recognition (markings, labels, and placards), initial response actions, radioactive material shipping packages, on-scene patient handling, radiological terminology, and units, assessing package integrity, radiation detection instrumentation, and radiological decontamination.
Original source can be found here.
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