Biological Detection, You Ready!

You are responding to an investigation of “Smoke in the area”. You turn the corner and smoke is light but coming out of the eves on that third house in. You strike a full alarm for a house fire. This is how a fire department found a Ricin batch being made. While on your shift the hazmat team is called to a family clinic, the patients are described to you as having pustules, and a fever. How about the infamous white powder call when the infrared signals a biological spectrum.
We will spend the time looking at what happened in October of 2001 the first set of Anthrax cases, to the Ebola incidents to present treats and what you can do as a response agency. We will investigate current methods of detection and presumptive identification in order to make good and rational scene decisions. It is truly these decisions that will set the stage for your community.