ADVISORY/CHP, WPGA Train Responders to Tanker-Trailer Crashes.

News & Assignment Editors

ADVISORY...for Friday (March 23)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Who:     California Highway Patrol and Western Propane Gas Association

What:    Press conference on CHP/WPGA training for emergency personnel
         in the safe, speedy removal of tanker-trailer crashes.
         Tanker-trailers may contain dangerous chemicals and are a
         source of major highway congestion.

When:    March 23, 2001 at 11 a.m.

Where:   B. T. Collins Training Facility, 8361 Okinawa Street,
         Sacramento.  Directions:  Highway 99 south.  Exit 47th Avenue
         East.  Merge onto 47th, which becomes Elder Creek Road.  Turn
         left from Elder Creek onto Florin Perkins Road and enter
         Facility at Gate 3 (Okinawa Street).  Drive through the
         archway of the B. T. Collins US Army Reserve Center.  Follow
         signs to the parking area.

Visuals: The media and a class of emergency responders will
         observe as a cutaway tanker-trailer is overturned and then
         righted with big-rig tow trucks, simulating a freeway crash
         situation.