1. Why are active on-duty firefighters likely to experience the adverse health effects from inhaling 300 ppm of carbon monoxide faster than nonactive off-duty firefighters who inhale the same concentration of the same substance?
Explain your answer using the chemicals/process involved
2. Discuss an incident (fire, spill, explosion, etc) that you have experienced (or research one on the Internet, professional journal, or scientific magazine article) that involved a toxic material(s) and required mitigation.
Please do not use the instances supplied in the textbook unless you intend to provide a lot more detail. The following items must be addressed:
A) Describe the incident and identify the toxic material(s) involved;
B) Discuss the chemical interactions of the materials involved in this incident or toxic properties relevant to the incident;
C) Discuss the mitigation required or implemented.