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Welcome to the Massachusetts Association of Hazardous
Materials Technicians!
About Us:
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Following a large haz-mat
incident that took place in the City of Somerville, MA
in 1980 several organizations began to evaluate the
capabilities that existed for response to hazardous
materials incidents in the Commonwealth. They
included, but were not limited to: Professional Fire
Fighters of Massachusetts, Fire Chiefs’ Association of
Massachusetts, Massachusetts Fire Training Academy
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the Massachusetts Fire
Training Council. The result of this evaluation
was a plan to provide regional hazmat response
throughout the Commonwealth. In 1990 the first of six
teams was trained and all six teams were in service by
the end of 1992.
The Massachusetts
Association of Hazardous Materials Technicians was
established in 1991 to represent the members of the
regional teams, who are career firefighters across
the state. These 270
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represent nearly 125
fire departments, where they are on call to respond to
incidents whenever they occur. The teams have responded
to thousands of hazmat incidents of all types since
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Noel "Chris" Waters, 67
The MAHMT regrets to announce the
death of Noel "Chris" Waters, one of our past Hazmat
Conference instructors. Chris was known by many of
our association members having taught at several of our
past conferences as well as in his past positions with
the FDNY, instructor and hazmat chair at the National
Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, MD. Chris was a gentle
giant and supremely absorbed in hazmat. He
inspired many of his students to become hazmat
instructors and become more involved in chemistry, and
hazmat response. He will be sorely missed by all
those who knew him.
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