{"id":7389,"date":"2015-08-16T16:49:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T21:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2015-08-16T16:49:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T21:49:33","slug":"surviving-a-hazmat-the-rule-of-thumb-and-the-3-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/16\/surviving-a-hazmat-the-rule-of-thumb-and-the-3-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving a Hazmat: The Rule of Thumb and the 3 U\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"graf--p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/hazmat.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7390\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/hazmat.jpeg\" alt=\"hazmat\" width=\"620\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"19da\" class=\"graf--p\">Imagine this\u00a0\u2026 you\u2019re sitting there in your car waiting for the light to turn green and over to your left you see a huge flash of fire and then a split second later a deafening BOOM!<\/p>\n<p id=\"0e48\" class=\"graf--p\">You\u2019re in the middle of a train derailment, one where several rail tankers have collided and caused an explosion. Now there\u2019s string of railcars and tankers, each carrying hazardous materials, on fire and releasing toxic vapor clouds into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ac6c\" class=\"graf--p\">A fiery ball of black smoke billows hundreds of feet into the air.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3b02\" class=\"graf--p\">Thick acrid smoke covers the entire downtown and travels several miles. Burning oil and chemicals rush through storm drains and sewers.<\/p>\n<p id=\"dc60\" class=\"graf--p\">Lights and sirens. Your heart is pounding against your chest. Adrenaline is running through your veins\u00a0. And, all you hear is a single thought\u00a0\u2026 \u201cThis stuff is bad\u00a0\u2026explosion\u00a0\u2026 fire\u00a0&#8230; I can\u2019t breathe\u00a0\u2026 What I am supposed to do? Where am I supposed to go? Am I going to die in this? HELP!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"0c44\" class=\"graf--p\">STOP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/homeland-security\/surviving-a-hazmat-the-rule-of-thumb-and-the-3-u-s-9dfd44e38de3\">Medium<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine this\u00a0\u2026 you\u2019re sitting there in your car waiting for the light to turn green and over to your left you see a huge flash of fire and then a split second later a deafening BOOM! You\u2019re in the middle of a train derailment, one where several rail tankers have collided and caused an explosion&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,84,118,404],"tags":[1919,1920,1921],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}