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The HOTZONE 2005 Conference

Hotzone 2005 will be held October 13 - 16, 2005 at the Houston Marriott Westchase Hotel located at 2900 Briarpark Drive at Westheimer Conference Registration is $150.00 up till October 1, 2005, after October 1, 2005 it is $175.00, a $35.00 administrative fee will be charged for all cancellations.

Rooms Rates are $80.00 plus applicable taxes if booked prior to October 4, 2005. Participants are responsible for making their own reservations. Room reservations can be made by calling the Houston Marriott Westchase at 713-978-7400 and booking for the Hotzone Conference.

Go to www.hotzone.org to register by completing the registration form electronically or Fax it to 469-374-7717 or mail the form to Hotzone, 14232 Marsh Lane #130, Dallas, TX 75001

If you have any questions or comments please contact Danny Snell at: snelldg@aol.com or 713-247-8887 (fax: 713-247-4859).

2005 Conference Course Schedule

Keynote Address: Speaker:
The Islamic Fundamentalist Movement
Offer Baruch

Pre-Conference Workshops: All day events (8 hours)
Above Ground Storage Tanks (classroom morning & Houston Ship Channel Boat Tour; Limit 30)
Bill Hand & Co.

Advanced HazMat Operations
Glen Rudner, Butch Hayes, & Co.

Basic Gas Detection (Limit 25)
Sam Summers

CAMEO Workshop
Weston

Decontamination Workshop - (Classroom & Hands-0n)
Los Alamos National Laboratory

HazMat FRO Refresher
David Jones

Railcar Class
Tim O.Brien

Tank Truck Liquid Transfers
Mike Carpenter

Conference Workshops:

Are you in the FOG about FOG's
Bill Hand, Tony Mussorfiti & Toby Bevelaqua

Biological Detection Workshop (Updates & Testing Information)
Rick Emery

Bombs & Improvised Explosives
John Miller

Bulk & Non-bulk Containers (NFPA 472 related) Incidents
Bill Hand

Can your Response Team use a RRAT?
Frank Docimo

CAP Brief 6th Civil Support Team

Case Study: When Time and Pressure Make a Difference
Lanny Armstrong

CHEMTREC Chemical Emergency Resources
Carl Reynolds

Chemical Countermeasures - What's on the Approved List?
Richard Franklin & Scott Harris

Chlorine Emergencies
Richard Dunno, David Coe & John Douglas

Clandestine Drug Labs
Dieter Heinz

Clandestine WMD Lab Entry Operations
6th Civil Support Team

Collecting Information - HAZMAT References & Data Bases
Glen Rudner

Emergency Response to H2O2 Hydrogen Peroxide Workshop
Catherine Blair

Emerging Technologies
Ahura, Smith Detection, & Carnegie Mellon University

EPA/ FEMA/ State Emergency Response Reviews of HAZMAT Incidents
Steve Mason

Everything the Responder needs to know about 49 CFR
Aubrey Campbell

First 5 Minutes Can Kill You!
Ken Bouvier

Global Harmonization Systems - 15 months away but do you know what it is?
Rem Gaade

Hazardous Atmospheres in Confined Spaces
J.J. McGarry

Helpful Tools for the Prevention of Terrorism
Joe Porto

Household HazMat "Everything Under the Kitchen Sink"
Ken Bouvier

I Can ID That Product in seconds…Can You?
Frank Docimo

Jeopardy in the Classroom
Danny Snell and Bob Royall

Level "A" in-suit Emergencies"
Glen Rudner, Butch Hayes, & Co.

Liquified Natural Gas Emergencies
Kirk Richardson

Monomers vs. Polymers
David Ghormley

Near-sighted NIMS (NIMS for smaller jurisdictions)
Joe Leonard & Steve Kastenschmidt

NRC/AEGLS on Ethylene Oxide, Methyl Ethyl Ketone, Amines & other chemcals
Dieter Heinz

Operational Security
August Vernon

Pesticide Emergencies & Exposures
Harvard Fong

Pipeline Emergencies
Bill Hand

Radiological Mitigation
Cheryl Weaver

Responding to Power Plant Emergencies
Woody Cole

Small Packages - Big Problems
Rem Gaade & Catherine Blair

Standard for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents Manny Ehrlich, Bob Royall & Danny Snell

Suicide Bombers
August Vernon

Toxicology 101
Steve Kastenschmidt

What is a RIMT?
Paul Hanneman & Mike Montgomery

Working with the FBI Hazardous Materials Response Unit
Steve Patrick & HMRU

Converse With Other Texas Firefighters On Important Issues


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