AngelTrack can track the locations of hazardous materials within your service area, and warn dispatchers and crews about them while enroute.
Using AngelTrack's hazmat location tracking, alongside its hydrant tracking system, your dispatchers and crews can get advance notice of assets and liabilities near the scene of an incident.
Hazardous Chemicals List
The core of AngelTrack's hazmat location tracking system is its list of hazardous chemicals.
You can access the list from the Settings page. Its icon looks like a NFPA safety diamond. You must be an Administrator or a Captain to view it or make changes.
The list is pre-populated with common hazardous chemicals. You can add, update, deactivate, and reactivate records as you see fit. You can also define new hazardous chemical records on-the-fly while inputting a hazmat location (see below).
Hazmat Locations List
AngelTrack's hazmat locations list works just like its hydrants list:
- You can create as many records as you like, or import an existing list.
- Each hazmat location stipulates its chemical type, physical state, storage container type, street address, GPS coordinates, and associated facility record (if any).
- A facility record can own an unlimited number of hydrant records and hazmat location records.
- You can deactivate and reactivate records whenever needed.
- Whenever a dispatcher assigns a fire-category call to a crew, the mini-map will show her the locations of all nearby hazmats (including those not belonging to the target facility).
- Whenever a crew is enroute to a fire-category call, their run-call page will show them the types, distance, and direction from the scene to all nearby hazmat locations.
- The offline PCR supports the nearby hazmat locations warning.
Unlike hydrants, hazmat locations do not have inspection logs in AngelTrack, and so there is no "drivearound mode" for hazmats.
Dispatcher Warnings
As mentioned above, AngelTrack shows your dispatchers a mini-map of nearby hydrants and hazmat locations, so that she can ask the caller about them, and/or warn the inbound crews. Here is an example of how the mini-map looks with two orange-bonnet hydrants and one hazardous material location:
The dispatcher can click each icon for additional information.
Meanwhile the crew will see a matching readout on their mobile devices:
- A hazardous barrel of (say) acetone 200 feet to the northeast;
- An orange-bonnet hydrant 600 feet north-northeast; and
- Another orange-bonnet hydrant 900 feet northeast.
Facility Maps
In AngelTrack, each facility record can own an unlimited number of hydrants and hazmat locations. You can view these on the Facility Map for the associated facility, by visiting the facility's record and clicking the Facility Map icon 
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The Facility Map is a brand new feature in AngelTrack, and so its feature list is still expanding. Please check back here later for additional details on its capabilities.
Importing Your Spreadsheet of Hazmat Locations
If you already have a spreadsheet of hazardous materials locations within your service area, please contact AngelTrack Support to see about getting it imported; that way you won't have to keypunch all of it.