Dressed in special suits designed to protect them from harm and hooked up to portable oxygen tanks, 27 emergency responders tackled a simulated spill yesterday at a Carteret chemical terminal.
Mindful that surrounding them were giant tanks holding a variety of hazardous chemicals, the crews plugged an old tanker that was supposed to be leaking benzene and fixed a ruptured pipe gushing what was supposed to be sulfuric acid.
For some of the responders, the simulation, held at the Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminal in Carteret, was a refresher, but most of the participants were learning about how to handle a crisis for the first time.
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