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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- One: Downtown Nuclear Alert -- General Discussion of Nuclear Waste Disposal -- Springfield's Hazardous Materials Incident -- Springfield's Preparedness -- Responding to the Nuclear Fuel Incident -- Cleanup -- Results -- Two: Background to Hazardous Materials Incidents -- Cleanup -- Nuclear Energy Sites -- Cancer-Causing Pesticides -- Petroleum -- Polluters -- Water -- Three: The "Hazard" of Hazardous Materials Response -- Hazardous Materials Response Teams -- Hazardous Materials Incidents -- 1993 Annual Report of the Houston (Texas) Fire Department HMRT -- Four: Local Hazardous Materials Response Teams -- The Kenosha Fire Department HMRT, Kenosha, Wisconsin -- New Berlin Fire Department Special Units, New Berlin, Wisconsin -- The Hazardous Materials Response Team of the Charlotte, North Carolina, Fire Department -- Mount Prospect, Illinois, Fire Department Hazardous Materials Response Team -- "Our World Begins at the Decontamination Reduction Zone" -- The Hazardous Materials Unit of the Orange County Fire Department, Irvine California -- Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Hazardous Materials Response Team -- Five: Hazardous Materials Team Functions -- Thirteen Bogus Commandments of Hazardous Materials Response -- Background to Hazardous Materials Response -- Hazardous Materials Response may be Different Than Normal Fire Calls -- Incident Command Positions -- Hazardous Materials Operations -- Methods, Systems, and Strategies of Hazardous Materials Response -- Six: Getting the Job Done -- Response to a Mystery Gas or Toxin at Riverside General Hospital in California -- The Basic Aspects of Chemical Protective Clothing -- Use and Reuse of Protective Clothing in Haz Mat Response.