Firefighter Chris Kenner monitors air pressure for a pneumatic drill as his crew practices an emergency response to an overturned tanker at CSFD Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. All the firefighters at the training were Hazardous Materials Technicians.

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Colorado Springs and Fort Carson firefighters practice drilling into an overturned tanker at CSFD Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. The practice was part of highway emergency response training involving hazardous materials.

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Colorado Springs firefighters drill an access hole into a practice tanker at CSFD Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. The exercise was part of a highway emergency hazardous materials response training.

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Bob Dodd looks at laptops in the back of the Hazardous Materials engine that let him track materials and gather information at CSFD Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. The engine can connect to things like local weather information to track airborne chemicals, look up local population densities and find information about nearby hospitals and other sensitive sites.

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Bob Dodd laughs with a fellow firefighter at Hazardous Materials training at CSFD Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. Dodd was practicing with a command center in the truck that allows firefighters to access information about materials and track how they might spread.

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A firefighter practices extracting a hazardous material from the back of a damaged tanker at CSFD headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. Firefighters may need to isolate or remove dangerous materials from a scene to make sure that they don't interact and create worse situations.

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Hazardous Materials tapes lay in the back of the Colorado Springs Fire Department's Hazardous Materials engine in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. There are 29 members of the CSFD Hazardous Materials team.
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A firefighter brings down an antenna on the back of the Hazardous Materials engine during practice at CSFD headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. The engine can connect to local information networks to allow firefighters to track hazardous materials and monitor incidents.

(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)

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A firefighter monitors air pressure for a pneumatic drill at CSFD Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. The drill was being used to access a damaged tanker as part of the Hazardous Materials Team's highway emergency response training.

(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)

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