Sanatoga firefighters get instructions during last month's emergency at InnoChem
SANATOGA PA – Sanatoga and Ringing Hill firefighters, who voluntarily spend dozens of training hours each month to ensure they’re up-to-speed on the latest developments in their profession, likely will add some extra hours to their schedules before late fall.
Exelon Nuclear’s Limerick Generating Station (LGS) will conduct emergency exercises during November 2011, and firefighters and fire police must be prepared for new route alerting procedures being put into effect, Lower Pottsgrove Police Lt. Michael Foltz reported last week to the Board of Commissioners. Foltz also serves as township emergency management coordinator, and his report was distributed Monday (May 2) to board members.
Foltz met late last month with representatives of the Montgomery County Department of Public Safety to review Lower Pottsgrove’s emergency operations plan, its notification and resource manual, and its radiological emergency response plan in advance of the November drill.
Following the meeting, Foltz reported, the township’s emergency management team agreed to “develop and implement” training with both companies to ensure route alerting procedures could be fulfilled within specific time limits. Team members must be prepared, too; Foltz and his colleagues will be trained in procedures required by Exelon, and the Pennsylvania and the Federal Emergency Management agencies.
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[...] Township Responders To Train For LGS November Drill Exelon Nuclear, and state and federal agencies, will conduct an emergency drill during November at the Limerick Generating Station. Lower Pottsgrove officials are already planning to train for the event. [...]