Philly had just trained for an incident like refinery fire: ‘It worked out exactly how it should have’

The city’s Office of Emergency Management and Fire Department were fresh off a discussion at the Navy Yard, where various agencies met Thursday to plan an inter-agency response to a specific hazardous emergency. The officials discussed each agency’s planned response and protocol to make sure everyone was on the same page, said Noëlle Foizen, deputy director for public engagement for the Office of Emergency Management.

While the training wasn’t specifically about responding to a refinery emergency, it’s reflective of the type of training city officials are constantly undertaking to better work with one another in emergency situations.

Less than 24 hours later, Foizen’s office, along with the Fire Department and several other agencies, leaped into action in response to the fire that closed streets and the George C. Platt Memorial Bridge, and had residents sheltering in place for several hours.

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