1st Responder Training on 7 June at CT Fire Academy's June Fire School an Overwhelming Success

Over the past few months, members of the project team, particularly Signature Transportation Parts & Service, Inc., have been working with the State Fire Marshal, local First Responder organizations across the state of Connecticut and the CT Fire Academy to ensure the Connecticut Clean Cities Future Fuels Project reached the right people to ensure training was offered for the new Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Stations being deployed across the state as part of the USDOE project.

The team was invited by the CT Fire Academy to offer a 1st Responder Training Course and to display Alternative Fuel Vehicles at this year's June Fire School. The June Fire School is a week long event offering many courses to help train and refresh 1st Responders on needed information and processes to protect themselves and save lives when an emergency occurs.

The call was issued to all project partners and the response was 100% participation.

The morning class on Tuesday 7 June 2011 was well attended and the following AFV's and equipment were on-site with a representative to answer questions from the 1st Responders in attendance.

• Enviro Express of Bridgeport, CT - Kenworth T800 LNG Class 8 Tractor (Westport makes the engine in the Kenworth T800 and sent a Training Instructor to support the class)
• CTTRANSIT of Hartford, CT - 40' Hydrogen Fuel Cell Transit Bus
• City of Meriden, CT - Honda CNG Civic
• Metro Taxi of West Haven, CT - 2011 Ford Transit Connect with CNG fuel
• Vehicle Products Group - NEW MV-1 Wheelchair Accessible Taxi using CNG fuel (There are 140 of these coming to Connecticut over the next few months to Metro Taxi and The Yellow Cab Company)
• Control Module of Enfield, CT - Chevy Volt and Electric Vehicle Service Equipment (EVSE

Many thanks to the CT Fire Academy for the opportunity! Tanks to all project partners who participated and provided AFV's for 1st Responders to see at the training session.





Bill Scalzi of Metro Taxi with a Ford Transit Connect CNG just ready for deployment at Metro and & an MV-1 demo like the 70 planned for his company later this year.









1st Responders look over CTTRANIT H2 bus!











Control Module's NEW Chevy Volt!




















1st Responders get first-hand experience with the EVSE from Control Module using a new Chevy Volt to "plug-in"