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ST. PETERSBURG =E2=80=94
Hazardous materials crews responded Thursday to an ammonia leak at an
empty seafood warehouse that resulted in no injuries.
The
incident began about 1:30 p.m. as firefighters with St. Petersburg Fire
Rescue were doing a routine hazardous materials inspection at 333 16th
Ave. S, said Lt. Joel Granata, a department spokesman. The building
houses a processing facility for Key West Fresh and Frozen
Seafood.
When they got there, the door was open and there was a
strong odor of anhydrous ammonia, a toxic chemical that can cause
breathing difficulties, Granata said. Hazardous materials firefighters
began searching the building. They found a 14-gallon ammonia tank with
about 5 gallons left in it and what appeared to be a small leak at the
valve, Granata said. A total of 27 hazmat technicians from St.
Petersburg, Largo, Pinellas Park, Palm Harbor and Seminole were
involved.
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ST. LOUIS
PARK (WCCO) =E2=80=95
Four St. Louis Park High School students have been
taken to a nearby hospital for observation after a problem with the
ventilation at the school's pool, according to police.
Police
say just after 7 p.m. a generator failed, causing the system that vents
chlorine vapors from the pool area to not work properly. St. Louis Park
has had two power outages in the past few days, but none affecting the
school.
Responders in Hazmat suits from Hopkins are checking out the
scene. School officials haven't decided yet if there will be classes
Friday.
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An
incident occurred in the 30,000 block of Rim Rock Pl. that could have
been the source of rumors a week ago.
On Wednesday evening,
October 20, police and paramedics were called to a home where a man
collapsed and died. A woman was taken away in an ambulance, and
bystanders saw police, fire trucks, two Hazmat units and the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), treating the area as they would a
hazardous materials scene, leading some to believe there might have been
a methamphetamine lab. Subsequent evidence seems to indicate this was
not the case.
The incident is still
under investigation, according to CLPD Cpl. Ole Williams; however, a
neighbor, who is also a nurse, became involved in this incident soon
after the victim was discovered and these were her observations:
The nurse heard a woman
screaming in their cul-de-sac so she rushed to her assistance. The woman
said she had found her boyfriend "unconscious=" inside.
The nurse went in with her and immediately smelled strong fumes. She
reported the fumes when she called 911. When the nurse and girlfriend
attempted to turn over the victim to provide CPR, the nurse recognized
he already was deceased. At that time, she also observed carpet-cleaning
equipment and a large fan nearby.
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GWINNETT
COUNTY, Ga. --
Firefighters battled a blaze
at a Norcross plastics recycling facility on Wednesday
afternoon.
Channel 2's Manuel Bojorquez
was on Northwoods Parkway, where crews were fighting the
flames.
Workers alerted authorities
about a fire that erupted outside the facility around 1:15 p.m.,
firefighters said.
They said
some equipment caught fire and propane tanks exploded outside.
Firefighters said they don't know what caused the fire.
The building was damaged, but all of the workers made
it out safely, firefighters said.
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Dhaka,
Oct 28 (bdnews24.com) =E2=80=94 A
mobile court has fined two warehouses in Old Dhaka for storing flammable
chemicals, hours after an explosion in the same area.
Mohammad
Asad, owner of a warehouse at Bangshal, was fined Tk 400,000 on Thursday
for storing flammable chemicals without a fire certificate.
Locals
said the area was covered with smoke after the explosion in the
warehouse.
They
brought out a number processions immediately following the explosion
demanding eviction of chemical warehouses from the
area.
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WAUSEON =E2=80=94 Eastbound lanes of the Ohio Turnpike
were closed in Fulton County Thursday afternoon due to a leak of nitric
acid from a box truck.
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A council
worker in the mid-north has been taken to Port Augusta Hospital after
being overcome by fumes at a farm near Wilmington.
Police
say a farmer saw a man in a white utility emptying a drum on the side of
a track near his farm on Wednesday.
The council worker went to
investigate on Thursday but was overcome by what police said were toxic
fumes and needed treatment by paramedics.
Fire
crews with breathing masks were called in to remove a chemical from the
area.
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Chemical
warehouse once again caused another fire incident in the city's densely
populated Bangshal area Thursday, firefighters said.
Fire
Brigade`s deputy director Abdur Rashid said the fire originated at about
11:55am from the ground floor of a three-storey building at 4/1 Gobinda
Das Lane, burning down the chemical factory.
"Flammable chemicals were kept at the ground floor," he said,
adding that chemical reaction is detected as a cause of the fire
incident in the preliminary inspection.
He,
however, said no one was injured in the incident as their several units
rushed to the spot and doused the blaze after half an hour of frantic
efforts with the help of police and locals.
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There has been a large chemical spill at a laboratory
on the outskirts of Hamilton.
Five fire trucks, police and ambulance crews have been
at Ecolab just off Vickery Street in the suburb of Bryant Park for about
an hour trying to contain the spill.
Fire communications shift
manager Steve Smith says a large quantity of hydrogen peroxide has been
spilt.
The laboratory has been evacuated while a clean up
takes place.
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Dearborn
- One person was overcome with fumes this morning at Fordson High School
after pool chemicals were improperly mixed, officials said. The
resulting noxious fumes caused the evacuation of the school and the
eventual dismissal of classes for the day.
According to Fire Chief Rich Miller, a preliminary
investigation shows that pool chemicals were somehow improperly mixed or
applied, which caused noxious fumes to infiltrate the
school.
Miller said the school
employee who accidentally applied the chemical was overcome by the
vapors and was sent to a walk-in facility for
treatment.
It is believed the chemicals
involved were chlorine and muriatic acid, both of which are used to
treat pool water. The city of Dearborn also asked for the Wayne County
Hazardous Materials Team to respond to the incident.
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