Decontamination

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Decontamination
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Three Types

• Personal
• Indoors
• Outdoors

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Fresh Air
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Cool Clean Water
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Normal Recovery 10 minutes
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Unusual Reactions
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Area Contamination

• Outdoors
• Cars,buses
• Houses

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Outdoors

• Pick-up unbroken projectiles
• Wash down
• Bio-degradable
• Naturally occurring pepper
• Magnesium Oxide

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Vehicles

• Air out
• Wash down
• Tide soap (glycerin)
• Vacuum

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Indoors

• Air out
• Vacuum
• Wash hard surfaces
• Dry Clean Clothes
• Replace Porous Material

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SWAT Responsibilities

• Reasonable Use
• Recommendation
• Pick-up Expended Canisters
• Aerate Contaminated Areas
• Customer Co. v. Sacramento
• (commercial)
• Patel v. U.S.
• (Rented)

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Follow Department Procedures