After being raised and educated in East Texas, Dennis LaMaster has been involved in environmental services since 1988 when he was hired to assist in marketing a local hazardous waste recycling company in Longview, TX. He was then recruited by a local recycler of industrial wastes as an area manager for fluid services. Dennis relocated to Baytown, Texas in 1991 to expand the fluid disposal business of his employer. He learned about spill response and waste management with that company until 1997 and was again recruited by an East Texas company that wanted to start up a Spill Response Division. Dennis purchased the company from his employer and eventually formed what was incorporated in Jan 2001 as MDLS, Inc. It had been a long-term goal to open his own business in the environmental field and after many years of working on startup operations for other people, he was able to find the right market for DLS Environmental Services. "The business locations in Lufkin, Longview and Paris, Texas are great for my business - The Longview headquarters and warehouse close to US Interstate 20 is perfect for access to major highways which is important to us because we need to get to the scene of a closed road due to accidents involving hazardous and non-hazardous materials. The best part about my business is working with the DLS Corporate Project Manager Richard Lenius of Etoile, Texas and Willie Pate of Paris, Texas who is the Corporate Operations Supervisor. We all stay in touch with local industry, government agencies and insurance companies who make up the bulk of our customers." DLS enjoys the employment of dozens of part time employees in the East Texas area, many of whom are career firefighters, emergency medical technicians and other professionals with excellent qualifications in safety, health and environmental training. "We are a team of East Texas responders who love to help our neighbors".