Joint Hazardous Assessment Team
A new team combining some of the best emergency response talent in Southern California is training to deal with acts of terrorism and other regional disasters.
Called the Orange County Join Hazardous Assessment Team, the team includes firefighters, police officers, weapons of mass destruction experts, hazardous materials teams and two bomb diffusion squads.
Each team member is on call at all times.
“The unfortunate reality is Sept. 11, 2001 has led all public safety agencies to reconsider coordination of