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Michael P. Kenny, Executive Officer -2- September 3, 1998 are reportedly involved in the fire at the facility. See Figure 1 for a map of the area around this property. Background The ARB Emergency Response Team (ERT) was contacted by William Loscutoff, Chief, MLD at approximately 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 8, 1998, and asked to respond to a request from the Office of Emergency Services for emergency "` .2 air monitoring at and near a fire involving a large used tire dump near Tracy, California. Gary Zimmerman - m„a of the CD staff was directed to deploy a crew with Miran IB real-time infrared portable monitors, and advised by MLD staff to monitor for CO, total hydrocarbons (THC), and aromatics (as toluene). During the First Day-8/7/98 course of the response, Miran 1B monitoring in the area of the tire fire was conducted in two-person teams by Compliance Division staff Britt Floyd, Pedro Campos, Danny Leon, Hardip Judge, Nestor Castillo, Dan Leon and Jack La Brue. In addition, Ken Stroud of MLD's Air Quality Surveillance Branch was directed to deploy battery-powered filter samplers for the measurement of carbon particulate matter. We coordinated our efforts with the Incident Command (IC) Post (Robert Lopez, Tracy Police Dept. and Robin Clemens, USEPA contractor) at the Tracy Fire/Police Dept. to let them know what we planned on doing and when the crews would arrive. The IC requested that we try to have our crews in Tracy by 2:00 p.m. for a meeting to discuss further actions. The ERT was organized and left for Tracy about 12:30 p.m., arriving at the Incident Command Center in the Tracy Fire/Police Department at 1000 Civic Center Drive in the city of Tracy about 1:45 p.m. _ MLD's sampling staff left about 1:30 p.m. ARB staff reported to the Incident Command, specifically Mr. William Lewis, On-Scene-8/7/98 EPA On-Scene Coordinator, and was