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C. 17

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	William Walker, M.D., Health Services Director
Date:	November 7, 2017

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

2017 Urban Shield Exercise, Continuing Challenge

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 11/07/2017

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:	Randy Sawyer, 925-335-3210
cc:	Tasha Scott Randy Sawyer Marcy Wilhelm

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: November 7, 2017
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

ADOPT Resolution No 2017/408 recognizing Daniel Vazquez and David LeCount for winning the 2017 Continuing Challenge Hazard Categorization (HazCat) contest.

BACKGROUND:

The Continuing Challenge Workshop provides training with a hands-on approach for first responders. The Workshop annually has approximately 800 students from all over the state and the nation who learn how to handle major Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) incidents. The classes are taught in the classroom or out in the field by over 100 instructors.

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

The Continuing Challenge is one of the training workshops that focuses on providing hazardous materials response personnel an opportunity to learn means to respond to hazardous material incidents. The Workshop provides the latest technology and provides experts on many different subjects to lead learning experiences.

Each year one of the highlights of the Workshop is the “Name the Unknowns” HazCat contest. Twelve teams are given eight unknown chemicals in which they need to identify and assign a hazard category (e.g., flammable or corrosive) within 30 minutes. The team that is able to identify the most chemicals and/or provide hazard categories wins.

The Health Services' Hazardous Materials Incident Response Team of Daniel Vazquez and David LeCount participated and won the 2017 HazCat contest. Daniel and David, at the last moment, decided to participate with their training as part of the Health Services' Hazardous Materials Response Team and were able to win this contest.