Simsbury Firefighters Complete Terrorism Response Course

Submitted release

Two Simsbury Volunteer Fire Company officers, Deputy Chief Kevin Kowalski, and Tariffville Lt. Mike Brown, have completed “Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings,” a course sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and administered by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

The four-day course covered identifying potential targets and pre-attack indicators, how to identify explosives and improvised explosive devices and how to respond safely to pre- and post-detonation incidents. Field laboratories allowed the students to observe, and sometimes handle, explosives and see the resulting damage from successful attacks.  Kowalski and Brown are now certified as course instructors.