First responders should become familiar with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) hazard classes for hazardous materials and the placards and labels used to identify those hazards. This ...

EMERGENCY responders have helped protect Americans from hazardous substance releases since our nation's beginnings. From the bucket brigades of colonial times to today's in-plant and community ...

MISSION, Texas (Border Report) — Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector are putting rescue placards along the banks of the Rio Grande to help prevent migrant drownings. It’s part of the ...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a professional truck driver for 30 years, I am very familiar with switching between different metal and sticker-style hazard placards for display on ...

Nearly every community, large and small, has hazardous materials transported through it or around it. The Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) mandates the creation of ...

The Federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports 735 hazardous-material incidents on Pennsylvania highways in 2009, down from 868 in 2008. "Incident" means a hazardous material being released ...