FireRescue1 Webinar with 908 Devices
Webinar Date: Tuesday, April 28
Webinar Time: 1 PM ET / 12 PM CT / 10 AM PT
Fire and police HazMat teams are being tasked to protect more than ever: more venues, more public spaces, more special events, and more everyday “soft targets” not built with chemical risk in mind. Fixed sites still matter, but the mission is shifting toward dynamic environments—districts, transit hubs, schools, houses of worship, festivals, and open-air spaces where crowds move, conditions change, and decisions must be made fast.
This session brings together two essential perspectives:
Doug Huffmaster will share lessons from large‑scale protection in Las Vegas, showing how chemical‑incident readiness functions as a system—through district segmentation, unified command, layered deterrence, and pre-scripted actions.
John Johnson will show how to turn operational needs into a repeatable funding approach, building an “approvable” capability package that links gaps to outcomes and aligns with federal, state, and event-driven funding streams. Attendees will leave with a scalable plan to prepare, train, equip, and fund chemical‑threat readiness in crowded places without slowing public life or straining small-city resources.
Participants will learn to:
- Recognize the shift from fixed‑asset protection to dynamic‑environment readiness.
- Apply a scalable operating model for chemical‑incident preparedness (roles, ICS integration, triggers, playbooks).
- Build layered protection using people‑flow and venue/district segmentation.
- Convert capability gaps into fundable requirements with a structured method.
- Develop a practical funding roadmap aligned with common grant lanes and approval workflows.
Who Should Attend:
- HazMat teams
- Emergency management directors
- Fire service leaders
- Special event safety/security planners
- Public safety planners
Meet the Speakers
John Johnson
Vice President,
North America & Strategic Marketing
908 Devices
John Johnson is vice president, product marketing and enablement at 908 Devices, where he leads product marketing, market development and commercial enablement for the company’s handheld mass spectrometry and FTIR product lines. Over a 30-year career in public safety he has launched 17 products in 61 countries and worked with more than 400 public safety organizations. His work has helped accelerate adoption of advanced field technologies for explosives, chemical and narcotics identification.
Douglas Huffmaster,
Senior Manager of CBRNE Customer Success
908 Devices
LVMPD Police Sergeant Douglas G. Huffmaster (retired) has over 30 years of operational experience in coordinating, performing and commanding multi-agency operations to sample, survey, mitigate and investigate chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) incidents. Doug is a combat veteran who served 11 years in the U.S. Army as a nuclear, biological and chemical non-commissioned officer, serving in the units of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 1st Ranger Battalion. Along with being a HAZMAT technician and a confined space rescue technician he was also a tactical explosive breacher and an FBI certified bomb technician. Doug served in the ARMOR task force as a detective and retired as the sergeant of the team in 2017.