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CREWS WORK TO CONTAIN DIESEL SPILL
Tags: us_WI, transportation, fire, environmental, diesel

INJURED TROOPER OUT OF INTENSIVE CARE
Tags: us_PA, public, fire, injury, unknown_chemical

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: HOLLYWOOD SUICIDE POINTS TO CHEMICAL DANGER
Tags: us_CA, public, release, death, suicide

EMERGENCY CREWS CALLED TO ANHYDROUS AMMONIA LEAK
Tags: Canada, public, release, response, ammonia

ODOR FROM WHITE POWDER SICKENS MAID AT DENVER HOTEL
Tags: us_CO, public, release, injury, dust

HOME EVACUATED AFTER TRAIN OVERTURNS NEAR HARPERSVILLE
Tags: us_AL, transportation, release, response, corrosives, flammables

CREWS CLEANING UP CHEMICAL SPILL FROM OVERTURNED SEMI-TRAILER ON OHIO HIGHWAY
Tags: us_OH, transportation, release, injury, diisocyanate

2 INJURED IN CHEMICAL EXPLOSION AT PHOENIX CITY YARD
Tags: us_AZ, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical

PUBLIC SAFETY: TWO CHILDREN KILLED IN BLAST AT ILLEGAL FACTORY - THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE
Tags: Pakistan, industrial, explosion, death, gas_cylinders

FOUR WORKERS ARE KILLED IN U.K.=92S DEADLIEST REFINERY EXPLOSION SINCE 1974
Tags: United, Kingdom, industrial, explosion, death, petroleum

CHEMICAL REACTION FORCES BUSINESSES TO EVACUATE
Tags: us_VT, industrial, release, response, unknown_chemical

EVACUATION AT THUNDER CREEK PORK DUE TO AMMONIA LEAK
Tags: Canada, industrial, release, response, ammonia


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CREWS WORK TO CONTAIN DIESEL SPILL
http://www.c hannel3000.com/news/28137663/detail.html
Tags: us_WI, transportation, fire, environmental, diesel

MADISON, Wis. -- Multiple crews were working to contain a diesel spill in the town of Albion on Sunday.
The Madison hazmat team was called in to help clean up a diesel fuel spill found at 580 Albion Road, in the town of Albion.
Edgerton and Madison firefighers, along with the Dane County Emergency Mangement teams and the Department of Natural Resources were also on hand.
The leak was reported at 12:30 Sunday afternoon.
Authorities found fuel leaking from a pipe. The source of the fuel came from a truck stop that is located south of where the leak was found.
There is no word on how much fuel leaked or what caused the leak. However, authorities said there is no danger of fires or concerns to nearby wells.

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INJURED TROOPER OUT OF INTENSIVE CARE
http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_ 18207146
Tags: us_PA, public, fire, injury, unknown_chemical

York, PA - A Pennsylvania State Police trooper who inhaled unknown toxic fumes while investigating a reported vehicle fire in Dauphin County was moved from intensive care Saturday morning and is in stable condition, a police spokesman said.
The 28-year-old trooper, whose name was not released, discovered a smoldering pile of items along Interstate 81 in East Hanover Township, Dauphin County, around 7 p.m. June 3, said Trooper Thomas Pinkerton.
No vehicles were in the area as the trooper approached the smoldering pile, Pinkerton said. The trooper felt some ill effects from the fumes but was able to return to his squad car and summon help.
The local fire department and an ambulance arrived and the trooper was transported to Hershey Medical Center initially in critical condition with apparent burns to his throat and lungs, Pinkerton said.
A state police Clandestine Laboratory Team and a Regional Laboratory chemist investigated the scene and concluded the items were not from illegal drug manufacturing, Pinkerton added.
Police have not determined the chemical content of the fumes.
Investigators said they learned that shortly before the trooper arrived on the scene, a dark or navy blue pickup, occupied by three white males and carrying white 5-gallon buckets in the bed, stopped on the roadside.
The men pulled smoldering items from the bed onto the highway and left the area.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: HOLLYWOOD SUICIDE POINTS TO CHEMICAL DANGER
http://www.google.c om/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h3ImbhoMJD12dhSo5mBv9geXOyJQ?docId=cbd8e3 b00d1843cf9027a9cf6b859ad2
Tags: us_CA, public, release, death, suicide

LOS ANGELES (AP) =97 The suicide of a young woman in the Hollywood Hills might have seemed just another sad Tinseltown story but for large notes plastered on the window of the car in which she died: "Danger! Chemicals Inside! Call 911."
Police and coroner's investigators had seen this before =97 three or four times in the past year =97 and they knew the danger was real to them and the neighborhood. Had the chemical cloud escaped from the car with people nearby, many others could have died, according to authorities. An evacuation of residents was contemplated but never carried out.

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EMERGENCY CREWS CALLED TO ANHYDROUS AMMONIA LEAK
http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3156147
Tags: Canada, public, release, response, ammonia

Chatham-Kent police, fire and the Ministry of Environment were called Saturday evening shortly after 8 p.m. after an anhydrous ammonia leak at a farm on Brush Line near Mull Road.

Insp. George Flikweert, of the Chatham-Kent Police Service, said a farmer was applying the chemical to a field on a sloped ridge. He said the uneven ground caused a stabilizer bar securing the pressurized ammonia tank to break, shifting the tank and causing the supply line to rupture.

Approximately one metric tonne of the chemical was spewed into the atmosphere, he said.

"It's a chemical used in the crop fertilization process," Flikweert said.

He said while the ammonia dissipates rapidly, it's extremely dangerous.

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ODOR FROM WHITE POWDER SICKENS MAID AT DENVER HOTEL
http:// www.thedenverchannel.com/news/28111072/detail.html
Tags: us_CO, public, release, injury, dust

DENVER -- A woman who went to clean up a room at a west Denver hotel Thursday afternoon was sickened by a noxious odor, firefighters said.
Firefighters were called to the hazmat scene at the InTown Suites at 2900 W. Hampden Avenue around 1 p.m.
Denver Fire spokesman Phil Champagne said crews responded after a maid discovered a white powdery substance in one of the guest=92s suites. The powder gave off a repugnant odor that made the maid sick, he said.
Firefighters evacuated the east wing of the third floor as a precaution.
Champagne said the powder was a combination of homeopathic and prescription drugs that the guest in the room was taking. He added that the man was very ill and was being treated for an infectious disease.
Champagne said there was nothing illegal or dangerous about the situation and firefighters cleared the scene.

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HOME EVACUATED AFTER TRAIN OVERTURNS NEAR HARPERSVILLE
http: //www.dailyhome.com/view/full_story/13647494/article-Home-evacuated-after- train-overturns-near-Harpersville?instance=home_news
Tags: us_AL, transportation, release, response, corrosives, flammables

Harpersville Firefighters Mark Lewis and Jeff Blankenship notified residents of 15 homes to evacuate Friday afternoon after ten cars of a CSX freight train overturned about a half mile south of US 280 in the area of Dead Hollow Road and Rock School Road about 2 Friday afternoon. 

At least some of the cars contained four chemicals considered hazardous. Capt. Wade Holley who works with both the Harpersville and Vincent fire departments and was the incident commander, said the chemicals were corrosive, highly flammable and toxic if inhaled.

The Pelham HazMat unit, Alabaster and Calera Decontamination units, a representative from the Emergency Management Agency and the Westover Fire Department responded to offer assistance, and the Chelsea Fire Department was on standby to cover calls for Harpersville, Vincent and Westover if needed.

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CREWS CLEANING UP CHEMICAL SPILL FROM OVERTURNED SEMI-TRAILER ON OHIO HIGHWAY
http://www.greenfieldreporte r.com/view/story/3379c06e139a488889162896bfbeef4d/OH--Chemical-Spill-Ohio- Highway/
Tags: us_OH, transportation, release, injury, diisocyanate

COLUMBUS, Ohio =97 Hazmat crews have been cleaning up about 1,000 gallons of a chemical that spilled from an overturned semi-trailer onto a central Ohio highway and nearby land.

Battalion Chief Michael Fowler of the Columbus fire department says the truck rolled over about 9 a.m. Friday at U.S. 23 and Interstate 270 on the city's south side. Fowler says the truck was carrying a diisocyanate-based chemical that did not pose a health hazard. Fowler says diisocyanate is used as a glue additive.

He says the driver was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

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2 INJURED IN CHEMICAL EXPLOSION AT PHOENIX CITY YARD
http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/2 -injured-in-chemical-explosion-at-Phoenix-city-yard-123109483.html
Tags: us_AZ, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical

PHOENIX - An explosion at a city yard injured two city of Phoenix workers Friday morning.
It happened in the area of 43rd Avenue and Indian School Road. The men reportedly were trying to start a generator in a storage shed at the time. The two men, whose names have not been released, had poured some chemicals into the generator just before the explosion.
Workers on the scene said the generator =93spit out=94 those chemicals, but it=92s not yet clear exactly if the generator itself blew up.
One of the workers, a 50-year-old man, suffered serious burns and was transferred to the Arizona Burn Center at Maricopa County Medical Center. His condition was not immediately available, but he reportedly is expected to survive.

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PUBLIC SAFETY: TWO CHILDREN KILLED IN BLAST AT ILLEGAL FACTORY - THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE
http://tribune.com.pk/story/181874/public -safety-two-children-killed-in-blast-at-illegal-factory/
< div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Tags: Pakistan, industrial, explosion, death, gas_cylinders

LAHORE: 
Two children were killed and five people suffered serious injuries in a mysterious cylinder explosion and chemical fire at a makeshift factory in a residential area in Ferozewala on Friday.
The incident occurred at the Azeem Mughal Varnish Factory, which is located amidst residential houses in Vandala Pull near Nazeer Colony. Later, residents of the neighbourhood urged the police to prevent such factories operating near their homes.
Rescue 1122 officials said they were investigating whether chemicals stored at the factory caught fire, resulting in the cylinder blast, or whether the gas cylinder explosion caused the chemicals to catch fire.

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FOUR WORKERS ARE KILLED IN U.K.=92S DEADLIEST REFINERY EXPLOSION SINCE 1974
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/201 1-06-02/chevron-pembroke-oil-refinery-has-fire-fire-department-says.html
Tags: United, Kingdom, industrial, explosion, death, petroleum

Four workers were killed when a storage tank exploded and caused a fire at Chevron Corp (CVX)=92s Pembroke plant in Wales yesterday, in the U.K.=92s worst refinery disaster for almost four decades.
Another worker was hospitalized with serious injuries, San Ramon, California-based Chevron said in a statement. Output at the 210,000 barrel-a-day refinery wasn=92t disrupted and an investigation is under way.
Yesterday=92s explosion was the deadliest since 28 people were killed in a blast at a chemical plant at Flixborough in northern England in 1974, according to the U.K. Petroleum Industry Association Ltd. A fire in a crude distillation unit at Total SA=92s 221,000 barrel-a-day Lindsey refinery in northeast England last year left one person dead.

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CHEMICAL REACTION FORCES BUSINESSES TO EVACUATE
http://www.reformer .com/localnews/ci_18203907
Tags: us_VT, industrial, release, response, unknown_chemical

BRATTLEBORO -- Emergency crews responded Friday morning to a report of smoke inside the Bennett Drive building housing C.E. Bradley Laboratory, Inc.
The Brattleboro Fire Department received a call from an employee shortly after 8 a.m. There was no smoke visible outside the building and light smoke inside when the fire department arrived, according to Fire Chief Michael Bucossi.
...Bucossi explained that the chemical reaction that caused the smoke occurred when several ingredients were left in a 250-gallon vat overnight.
"Yesterday at 2 p.m. they started mixing a batch," said Bucossi.
He said he didn't know what the substance's intended use was, but it was missing an ingredient that the employees did not have in-house and had not yet arrived.
Two ingredients in the incomplete batch began reacting through the night and became very hot.
"They started to combust," Bucossi said. "Because there were so many chemicals involved in the mixture, and we didn't know what it was off-gasing, we moved very slowly and cautiously."
There were no injuries.
The fire department helped five C.E. Bradley employees add water to the mixture, slowly bringing down the temperature until it formed a chemically stable sludge.

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EVACUATION AT THUNDER CREEK PORK DUE TO AMMONIA LEAK
http://www.mjtimes.sk .ca/News/Local/2011-06-02/article-2555551/Evacuation-at-Thunder-Creek-Pork -due-to-ammonia-leak/1
Tags: Canada, industrial, release, response, ammonia

Thunder Creek Pork Plant was evacuated on Thursday due to an ammonia leak at the factory.
    Moose Jaw Fire Department was called to Lillooet Street West at 12:23 p.m.
    After readings were taken at the site, deputy chief Rod Montgomery said a decision to evacuate the plant was taken at 1:48 p.m.
    Staff were allowed back into the building at 2:30 p.m.
    =93We took some readings and realized we had an anhydrous ammonia leak.
    =93The leak itself had stopped but there was still product in the lines.
    =93Our concern was for the safety of the people on the floor and that nobody was in a situation where they were in a hazerdous environment,=94 he said.

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