Emergency services including police and Rural Fire Service volunteers attended Young's Fire and Rescue Hazmat training on Tuesday night at Keith Cullen Oval.
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The exercise required crew members to go to the aid of a farmer who had inhaled a spilled herbicide chemical.
"We're running through a mock scenario of how we would extricate the patient and remove the chemical," incident controller and Fire and Rescue firefighter Sam Woods said.
The crew established an exclusion zone, removed and decontaminated the patient, and decanted the chemical.
With Fire and Rescue the responding agency for Hazmat incidents, Mr Woods said it's important for the crew to practice scenarios as often as possible.
"We need to be doing this training all the time. There's a lot of different chemicals around here. People can die from it," he said.
Young police Inspector Jacob Reeves attended.
"These activities allow us to observe and understand the procedures of our emergency service colleagues, improve upon our site control skills and gain familiarity with ways police can assist combat agencies when they are managing an emergency incident," Inspector Reeves said.
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