While technical rescues such as freeing someone from the wreckage of an automobile, train or aircraft accident or building collapse is the usual province of Rescue teams, HAZMAT teams in some jurisdiction are trained and expected to perform confined/enclosed space rescues (though in some jurisdictions both the Rescue squad and the HAZMAT team may be trained to perform such rescues).

Operations in confined spaces are one of the most dangerous types of missions that a HAZMAT responder can undertake. It is a world filled with such dangers as toxic gases, combustable gases, oxygen deficincy and very tight and dark spaces. Temperatures in a confined space maybe extreme, ranging from very hot to very cold.

Confined spaces can be very unforgiving and even a single, simple mistake due to absent-mindedness or poor judgement can cost a life.

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