Lieutenant Shannon Poynter and seven structural collapse specialists left Lexington at 2:30 Wednesday morning – about eight hours after the 11-story building collapsed. They brought Rescue 12, a heavy apparatus truck, and a 30-foot box trailer gooseneck. 21-year veteran Poynter is a hazmat specialist.
“I deployed monitors, four gas monitors, that detect different types of gases that that could be harmful in confined space areas, or, you know, any type of emergency, also had a rad monitor there, just in case, you know, we had anything.”
