BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana State Fire & Emergency Training Academy in Baton Rouge has set up a new program for firefighters and first responders to address problems with pipelines carrying carbon dioxide.

It's called the Louisiana Pipeline Emergency Training Program, which features a CO2 pipeline training prop for Louisiana.

The training course will be two days, with day one being a pipeline awareness and operations custom class. It will last four hours at River Parishes Community College in Gonzales.

Day two will be hands-on at the academy, focusing on responding to and controlling CO2 releases as well as gas and liquid-fueled fires.

This is the result of a $50,000 donation from ExxonMobil, owner and operator of the largest CO2 pipeline network in the United States.

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