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MEMPHIS,
Tenn. - Memphis Police busted a mobile meth lab near the Bartlett area
Thursday morning, sending two people to jail.
Around
9:45am, an employee for a business on the 5600-block of Pleasant View Rd
near Summer and Sycamore View noticed a suspicious van in the parking
lot and notified police. When officers arrived, they found meth-making
materials and two people asleep inside the van. HAZMAT was called to the
scene to detox the suspects and safely secure the drug-making
materials.
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Cape Town - A chemical laboratory at the University of
the Cape Town was damaged when a fire broke out on Thursday morning,
SABC radio news reported.
Nobody was injured during the blaze at the department
of chemical engineering.
Fire and rescue services senior emergency communicator
Winston Davids said three fire engines and a specialised vehicle which
handles hazardous materials, were sent to deal with the chemicals inside
the building.
He said it took more than two hours to extinguish the
blaze.
The cause of the fire was being investigated. -
Sapa
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North Las
Vegas, NV - North Las Vegas Fire and Rescue was called to Deseret
Industries Thrift Store near Craig Road and Allen in North Las Vegas
just after three, Wednesday.
Employees at the store were emptying a bag of clothes
when they say their nose and throat began to burn. It was
also difficult to breathe. The employees immediately brought the bag
outside to the back of the store.
Thirty
people were evacuated from the business.
Seven people have been transported to three Valley
hospitals. At least three others were being treated at the
scene.
Within a few hours it was discovered a pesticide was
found on a pair of pants inside a plastic bag brought in with
donations.
"Obviously its used to kill things so in big enough
quantities we could possibly have issuers with it," North Las Vegas Fire
Captain, Cedric Williams, says.
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Crews
were called to the Aycliffe Industrial Business Park on Tuesday evening
after reports of a 45-gallon drum rupturing inside a
lorry.
Crews from Darlington, Bishop Auckland and Newton
Aycliffe managed to seal off the leak and the men were taken to hospital
as a precaution.
The drum, containing a paint chemical, ruptured when
the lorry braked heavily.
David Turnbull, operations manager for the Durham and
Darlington Fire and Rescue Service, said the lorry braked suddenly to
avoid an accident.
He said: "We dealt with this as we would any other 999
call - crews arrived and made sure the spill wasn't going any
further.
"It was confined to the industrial site - we have
isolated the leak and sealed it and the drums will be taken away this
morning."
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GRAND
RAPIDS -- Grand Rapids firefighters and hazardous materials units
responded to a chemical spill along 28th Street SE early this
morning.
Crews were called to a
building at 100 28th St SE that houses Model Coverall Service Inc. after
a mixture of ammonia and other chemicals spilled and
combined.
No injuries were reported in
the accident, which happen about 5:30 a.m.
Traffic on 28th Street backed up as drivers slowed to
see what was going on. A strong smell of ammonia filled the air as crews
worked inside the building.
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FIRE-FIGHTERS were scrambled last night after a chemical
spill at a North-East industrial estate.
Crews
from Darlington, Newton Aycliffe and Bishop Auckland were called to
Aycliffe Business Park, in Redworth Way, County Durham, at 6.25pm after
a leak of de-atomised kerosene from a 220-litre drum.
Crews
made the incident safe and left the scene at 8.51pm. Two men were taken
to Darlington Memorial Hospital as a precaution.
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An 18-year-old Flagler County student was arrested
Monday after authorities say he set off a chemical bomb at his bus stop
in Palm Coast.
Giuseppe Verdone, Jr. was charged with two felonies:
possession or discharge of a destructive device at a bus stop and
discharging a destructive device, the Flagler County Sheriff's Office
said.
Witnesses said Verdone, a student at Pathways Academy,
put a mixture of household cleaner and an unidentified household item
into a bottle and placed it in the grass at the Bird of Paradise and
Biscayne Drive bus top.
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Indiana State Police have a new weapon in the fight
against methamphetamine: an Internet-based system to track repeat buyers
of the drug=92s key ingredient and help locate groups who appear to be
working together.
=93It=92s an efficiency tool for law enforcement,=94
1st Sgt. Niki Crawford, commander of the state police meth-suppression
section, said Tuesday during a visit to the Sellersburg Post to
introduce the new system and train some 40 state and local officers in
its use.
The department=92s meth-lab response van for the
region also was on display=97one of 13 $75,000-to-$100,000 trucks and
vans around the state equipped with breathing equipment, gear to test
whether air in suspected meth labs is safe, test the chemicals found in
them and clean up the operations.
A meth lab =93is a hazmat
scene and a crime scene,=94 said Sgt. Paul Andry, who is responsible for
the state police response to meth labs in the southern half of
Indiana.
In addition to the risk of fire and explosion, Andry
said, chemicals used in meth labs can endanger nearby water supplies,
since several of the ingredients are carcinogens.
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Arlington firefighters and
the hazardous materials team responded to the Lyon Village
Shopping Center around 12:20 this afternoon for a strong chemical odor.
Several people in the Starbucks reported feeling ill as a result of the
odor.
Firefighters went up to the roof and came down with a
bucket of epoxy that was being used for some sort of roofing
work.
A building inspector and a health inspector are on
their way to the shopping center to evaluate the
situation.
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The Hampton Bays Fire Department=92s hazardous
materials team ran a drill at Hampton Bays Elementary School last
Thursday, August 26, after responding to a minor incident there,
according to John Rankin, a fire marshal who was at the
scene.
Hampton Bays Superintendent Lars Clemensen said the
school district called in the hazmat team after a janitor dropped an old
corroded fire extinguisher in the school=92s basement at around 9 a.m.
and it discharged soda ash. The fire marshal=92s office responded to the
call and decided to use the time to complete a routine drill at the
school since members of the fire department=92s team were already on
site, Mr. Rankin said.
Soda ash, or sodium carbonate, is a non-toxic chemical
often used in the shipping of hazardous chemicals and is commonly used
as a neutralizer in pools, Mr. Rankin said. The janitor, whose name was
not released, was taken by ambulance to Southampton Hospital as a
precaution but was not injured, according to town fire
officials.
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