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LEPC stages anhydrous ammonia exercise at Rutland City Arctic Ice facility; plan updated
Summary
The Local Emergency Planning Committee ran a three-hour anhydrous ammonia leak exercise at the Arctic Ice facility in Rutland City and updated the facility emergency plan; officials said the local fire department remains incident commander in hazmat responses.
Bob Merlino, chair of the Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC), told the Rutland County Regional Emergency Management Committee (REMC) that the LEPC ran a hazardous-materials exercise this past weekend at the Arctic Ice facility in Rutland City to practice response to an anhydrous ammonia leak.
Merlino said the team spent about three hours on the exercise and also reviewed and revised the facility’s emergency plan. “We were there for about 3 hours, and we exercised an anhydrous ammonia leak there,” Merlino said. He added that the facility got a more…
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