TJ Coleman, with the FBI, instructs students at the Garland County Landfill Friday afternoon. Coleman was one of the instructors for a single-day training course for firefighters about improvised explosives. (The Sentinel-Record/Donald Cross)
HOT SPRINGS -- More than 20 emergency service personnel were at the Garland County Landfill on Friday afternoon to conclude a day of training on improvised explosives led by the Arkansas Render Safe Task Force.
The main portion of the course was at the Hot Springs Fire Department's Central Station in the morning before the students went to the landfill for the practical portion, where commercial and improvised explosives were detonated.
"It's a safety course that we put on for police and fire," Arkansas State Police Sgt. Mike Dawson, a member of the state police bomb squad, said.
"It's a homemade explosive awareness class that teaches the first responders what to look for," Dawson said.
"A lot of times if somebody's making homemade explosives, the first thing that's going to happen is something's gonna catch on fire.
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