Thank you, Mr. Chair.
With a hazardous materials incident, the incident commander has two very definite options: Move the people away from the bad stuff, or move the bad stuff away from the people. At the very least, there has to be a response whereby you can do a meaningful evacuation. That is training, awareness and community education, so that people are aware that this stuff is coming through the municipality and the evacuation plan. You're basically—again, I'm speaking from a professional perspective—seeking an element of self-evacuation to effectively get people away from this.
Getting a crew that can arrive and immediately mitigate a BLEVE or something like that is nearly impossible at times. You really do have to put as much water on it as you can and get everybody away for up to 24 hours.