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Article: Hazmat response in Kansas City, MO: deadly incident led to formation of Hazardous Materials Team.(HAZMAT STUDIES)(Missouri)
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- Firehouse Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Kansas City is the largest city in Missouri and is in the northwest corner of the state at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas rivers. The city encompasses 319 square miles with parts in four counties. Population estimates show 447,306 within the city and over 2 million in the Kansas City, MO/Kansas City, KS, metropolitan area.
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Kansas City, MO's early fire department was organized in the 1850s with the formation of volunteer bucket brigades. Church bells would signal a fire alarm and everyone would assemble at the scene of the fire to help. In 1867, the city abandoned the volunteer bucket-brigade system and replaced it with a ...