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Email: fpbinfo@glendaleca.gov

The Hazardous Materials Section within the Glendale Fire Department was established in 1986 to provide a centralized program for regulating and controlling the use and disposal of hazardous substances in the City. The program added a broad range of activities, including regulating underground storage of hazardous materials, disclosure of inventories of hazardous materials in businesses, planning for hazardous material emergencies, and enforcement of regulations to related hazardous material management.

In March of 1991 the Environmental Management Center (EMC) was established to serve the residents of Glendale with a facility meant to be a one-stop location for environmentally responsible stewardship. The EMC offered the proper disposal, recycling of household hazardous waste/used oil and educational services to the public in reducing, reusing and recycling of household products. The EMC also housed the Hazardous Materials Section of the Glendale Fire Department.

In 2005 the Environmental Management Center was combined with the Fire Prevention Bureau to bring under one roof all of the Fire Department’s fire prevention units. Although we continue to operate a satellite office out of the Permit Services Center for our Fire Engineering Unit.

The programs that are managed within the functions of the Environmental Management Center are:

• Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA)/Hazardous Materials Management


• Industrial Waste


• Household Hazardous Waste


• Used Motor Oil Collection Program