You are dispatched to the staging area of a terrorist-related chemical exposure.The incident commander asks you to stand by while hazmat personnel bring patients to the cold zone.As an EMT on-board an ambulance,what statement BEST describes your role?

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As an EMT on-board an ambulance, the role is to transport decontaminated patients. The hazmat personnel will decontaminate the patients in the hot zone and bring them to the cold zone where the EMT should be ready to transport them to the hospital. The EMT's role is not to triage patients or coordinate hazmat response, and transporting patients who have not yet been decontaminated would put the EMT and others at risk.

You Are Dispatched to the Staging Area of a Terrorist-Related