They pulled those (departments) with specialty teams, ... Chicago was sent, because they had personnel trained confined space and trench rescues. We were put on standby and were ready to respond that night but they told us at the last minute they didn't need us.
We're training in areas we never thought we'd have to deal with, ... Before we'd train to decontaminate one of our own if they went into a hot zone. Now we're trained in how to decontaminate a mass number of people who could be sprayed with a chemical or biological agent.