Which zone should you stage your ambulance in during a HazMat scene?

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HazMat responses rely on a clean-to-contaminated flow using distinct zones. The cold zone is the clean area where you keep equipment and personnel free from contamination, away from the hazard. Staging the ambulance in this zone protects the vehicle and crew from contamination and ensures the ambulance is ready for transport after patients have been decontaminated and cleared in the warm zone. The hot zone is where the hazard is present, so placing a vehicle there would risk spreading contamination. The warm zone serves as the decontamination buffer, where patients and equipment are decontaminated before any transport. Decontamination areas themselves are for performing the actual decon process, not for parking the ambulance.