Danville Firefighters have been called for three large-scale hazardous materials incidents lately. Chief Don McMasters told members of a city council committee Tuesday evening that one of them was to ViscoFan on July 9th. Another occurred last Friday afternoon when firefighters were called to the Danville Correctional Center after a clerk in the mail room opened an envelope and discovered a white powdery substance…..
Chief McMasters added a decontamination team from the Champaign Fire Department was called to Danville to help with last Friday’s incident. The City of Danville can bill places when fire units respond for hazardous materials incidents, but McMasters says he doubts the State of Illinois would pay the bill for the prison incident. There were no injuries in any of the calls.
