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Thursday, June 30, 2011 | 
TERMINAL ISLAND - A 37 year-old longshoreman was taken to the hospital on Thursday evening, June 30, 2011, after possible exposure to a substance spilled at a freight yard in the Port of Los Angeles.
Twenty-eight Los Angeles Fire Department personnel - including an LAFD Hazardous Materials Squad, under the command of Battalion Chief Raymundo Gomez, were summoned at 6:52 P.M. to the Yusen Terminal at 701 East New Dock Street on Terminal Island.
The worker, who complained of a headache and general malaise, told first-arriving LAFD Paramedics that his symptoms commenced immediately after noting a substance on the ground near a sealed 20' cargo container.
Though no evacuations were necessary, harbor-area protocol brought the interagency response of personnel from the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Port Police, Long Beach Fire Department, U.S. Coast Guard and L.A. County Fire Department Health Hazardous Materials Division.
LAFD Hazmat experts opened the locked cargo container to find it half-filled with 55-gallon drums containing Hydrogen Peroxide. Following a methodical investigation of nearly two and a half-hours, they determined that the freight was intact, and that pint of 'resin-like' liquid seen on the ground was not associated with the suspect container and of no escalating hazard.
The ill dock worker was taken by LAFD ambulance in good condition to the Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in San Pedro for further evaluation, as a private on-site cleanup firm removed the yet-identified substance under the guidance of health officials.
Dispatched Units: E40 RA36 E48 T48 E248 SQ48 RA848 BC6 EM6 RA112
Submitted by Brian Humphrey, Spokesman
Los Angeles Fire Department
2 comments:
Hi Brian,
Thanks for posting a rundown of the specific units responding. Please try to do it for all incidents posted as it is of interest to many of us.
Anonymous 8:39,
Thanks for the note.
Most significant to the (at this time experimental) post you commented upon above is something you may have overlooked!
Within our office, we're seeking to offer a more traditional 'news-like' format that foregoes the lengthy and oft-irritating LAFD preamble that has been decades-long mainstay for our internal reports and in recent years what we post and share via the internet.
There is indeed a long story about that preamble that we may tell some time in the future - but let us say that unless the new Fire Chief raises concern, its probably time now to put that painful and verbose read to bed :)
To that end, Matt, Erik and I will be *experimenting* with a handful of formatting prototypes in the weeks to come. We will ask your indulgence and seek your comments, as we strive to provide textual information that is not only more concise, accurate and easy-to-read, but in light of our workload, more simple to produce and sustain.
As for the list of Dispatched Units [emphasis added], we will also be experimenting with that to see if it can be sustainable.
PLEASE NOTE: If and when such data appears, it will be solely a list of *dispatched* units, and may not coincide fully with those that are assigned, committed or working at the incident scene.
In other words, one or more of the listed units may be cancelled or reassigned before leaving the station or arriving at the incident. Given our datastream and workload at this time, it's the best we can hope to sustain.
We close by again thanking you for the comment and mentioning that this all remains experimental at this time :)
Respectfully Yours in Safety and Service,
Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Specialist
Public Service Officer
Los Angeles Fire Department
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