LINC Modeling of August 19, 2004 Queen City Barrel Company Fire In Cincinnati, OH

摘要

This report details the information received, assumptions made, actions taken, and products delivered by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) during the August 19, 2004 fire at the Queen City Barrel Company (QCB) in Cincinnati, OH. During the course of the event, LLNL provided four sets of plume model products to various Cincinnati emergency response organizations: Set 1: Initial (Smoke) Projections, Set 2: Initial Fire Plume Health Effect Estimate, Set 3: Post-Analysis of the Fire Plume, and Set 4: Initial Smoldering Ember Health Effect Estimate. Each set of products was developed from information provided by the City of Cincinnati as input to the centralized dispersion modeling system at LLNL's National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC). This work was supported by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Local Integration of NARAC with Cities (LINC) program. This program is working with pilot cities to test and demonstrate operational plume modeling tools and services from the NARAC to city agencies.