More than 20 emergency service personnel were at the Garland County Landfill on Friday afternoon to conclude a day of training on improvised explosives led by the Arkansas Render Safe Task Force.
The main portion of the course was at the Hot Springs Fire Department’s Central Station in the morning before the students went to the landfill for the practical portion, where commercial and improvised explosives were detonated.
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Source: Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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