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FIRIES STILL AT INDUSTRIAL BLAZE
SCENE
Tags: Australia, public,
fire, response, acetylene
GARAGE USED TO STORE AMMUNITION, HARZADOUS MATERIALS
CATCHES FIRE, FORCING EVACUATIONS
Tags:
us_CA, public, fire, injury, flammables
MYSTERIOUS SMELL CAUSES GRAND CHUTE APARTMENT
EVACUATIONS
Tags: us_WI, public,
release, response, unknown_chemical
CHEMICAL SPILL FORCES
EMPLOYEES OUT OF REO DISTRIBUTION
Tags:
us_VA, industrial, release, response, unknown_chemical
CHEMICALS
IGNITE AT SOUTH SACRAMENTO TRUCK REPAIR YARD
Tags: us_CA, transportation, fire, response,
unknown_chemical
OVER RS 5.35 CR PROPERTY GUTTED IN
FIRE
Tags: India, industrial,
fire, response, unknown_chemical
NEWS, SPORTS, JOBS,
COMMUNITY INFORMATION
Tags:
us_OH, public, explosion, injury, bomb, illegal
CSB:
DUPONT NEEDS TO 'RE-EXAMINE' SAFETY PRACTICES
Tags: us_WV, industrial, release, death, phosgene,
follow-up
JACKSON FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS SECURED SCENE AT AMMONIA
SPILL NEAR INDUSTRIAL STEEL TREATING CO.
Tags: transportation, release, response, ammonia,
us_MI
PESTICIDES MADE ALMOST ONE DOZEN PEOPLE SICK IN CANYON
COUNTY
Tags: us_WA, public,
release, response, pesticides
PESTICIDE LEAK ON ROAD
Tags: us_CO, transportation, release, response,
pesticides
CREWS EXTINGUISH CHEMICAL FIRE IN SOUTH
SACRAMENTO
Tags: us_CA, industrial,
fire, response, waste
KW NOW!
Tags:
Canada, laboratory, release, response, gas_cylinders,
nitrogen
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FIRIES
STILL AT INDUSTRIAL BLAZE SCENE
Tags:
Australia, public, fire, response, acetylene
Fire
engines and a HAZMAT team remain at the scene of a fire near Newcastle
where nearby residents were evacuated after a large acetylene cylinder
started leaking during an industrial blaze.
he fire
at Heatherbrae early on Friday was initially thought to be in a domestic
garage but was in fact industrial, containing tyres and the cylinder, a
spokesman for Fire and Rescue NSW said.
en nearby
residents have been evacuated and products from the fire are affecting a
nearby creek, he said.
HAZMAT from Newcastle are at the scene and will
ascertain the effect on the local catchment area."
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GARAGE
USED TO STORE AMMUNITION, HARZADOUS MATERIALS CATCHES FIRE, FORCING
EVACUATIONS
Tags:
us_CA, public, fire, injury, flammables
Two
Glendale firefighters sustained minor injuries Thursday morning while
responding to a fire in a residential garage that was used to store
ammunition and hazardous materials, officials said.
The
unknown nature of the chemicals, the explosions of fuel containers, and
the fire setting off ammunition rounds at 6:21 a.m. in the 1100 block of
North Isabel Street prompted authorities to evacuate six adjacent homes
and six others on Jackson Street, Battalion Chief Vincent Rifino
said.
Hazmat crews were called in along with Los Angeles
County public health officials to clean up the controlled chemicals, for
which the homeowner, a retired chemist, had a license to own, officials
said.
The homeowner, Bob DeVoe, told fire crews he didn=92t
know what types of chemicals were inside his home or backyard because he
had been collecting the substances for many years, Rifino
said.
DeVoe was also a firearms enthusiast, Rifino
added.
=93We were dealing with an emergency of electrical
with ammunitions, hazardous materials and flammable liquids,=94 he
said.
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MYSTERIOUS SMELL CAUSES GRAND CHUTE APARTMENT
EVACUATIONS
Tags: us_WI, public,
release, response, unknown_chemical
GRAND CHUTE - Emergency
crews are still puzzled by an incident that evacuated a Grand Chute
apartment complex.
The fire department was called to 3115 West Fourth St.
around 8 p.m. Wednesday for a carbon monoxide check. One resident
smelled a strange odor and then started coughing. Officials entered the
building and had the same symptoms.
The apartment complex was
evacuated. The Hazmat team came to investigate. It took air samples.
Nothing out of the ordinary was found.
The cause
of the odor is still under investigation. Air samples have been sent to
the State Crime Lab for analysis.
Residents were let back into
their homes just before 2 a.m.
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CHEMICAL
SPILL FORCES EMPLOYEES OUT OF REO DISTRIBUTION
Tags: us_VA, industrial,
release, response, unknown_chemical
Employees of Reo
Distribution evacuated the building at Solutions Way for more than three
hours Thursday after a rust inhibitor spilled from a drum in a
second-floor storage area, leaking through the roof to a first-floor
hallway.
Fire officials double-barreled the leaking drum
Thursday afternoon and put absorbent material on both the second and
first floor, said Waynesboro Deputy Fire Chief James
Bradley.
The firefighters=92 work was to be followed by a
private hazardous materials contractor, said Reo Hatfield, president of
Reo Distribution.
Hatfield said the company=92s 85 to 100 employees at
the business were allowed back in the building by 3:20 p.m., a little
more than three hours after the incident started.
The
Waynesboro Fire Department identified the leaking material as Inhibitor
AZ8104.
Hatfield said the material is used to keep boilers
from corroding, but said his company did not currently use the
material.
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CHEMICALS
IGNITE AT SOUTH SACRAMENTO TRUCK REPAIR YARD
Tags:
us_CA, transportation, fire, response, unknown_chemical
A
hazardous materials incident in south Sacramento that seemed under
control early Wednesday afternoon became anything but hours later when a
trailer holding up to 40 chemical substances burst into
flames.
The fire was contained in
less than 15 minutes, fire officials said, but not before a thick plume
of dark smoke spread over the Mike & Son's Truck Repair yard
near Elder Creek Road and Florin Perkins Road.
The daylong saga began around 8 a.m., when fumes
started wafting from a tractor-trailer at the shipping
yard.
Call The Bee's Matt
Kawahara, (916) 321-1015. Bee staff writer Bill Lindelof contributed to
this story.
The Sacramento Fire Department and Sacramento
Metropolitan Fire District responded to the incident, which was declared
a Level 3 hazmat situation. A Level 3 is the most severe category of
hazardous materials incidents, occurring when officials must identify
the material involved and a decontamination team is
required.
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OVER RS
5.35 CR PROPERTY GUTTED IN FIRE
Tags:
India, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
Property worth over Rs 5.35
crore was on Thursday gutted in a fire which broke out in a chemical
factory at Baddi in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district, officials
said.
The
blaze, caused due to a short-circuit, engulfed an adjoining shoe factory
and an aromatic oil manufacturing unit, they said.
Fire
tenders were rushed from Nalagarh and Baddi and it took over
three-and-a-half hours to control the flames, the officials said.
While the
chemical factory suffered an estimated loss of Rs five crore, the other
units suffered combined loss of Rs 35 lakh, they said.
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NEWS,
SPORTS, JOBS, COMMUNITY INFORMATION
Tags: us_OH, public, explosion, injury, bomb,
illegal
GIRARD - A 16-year-old Girard boy was taken by
helicopter to the Burn Center at Akron Children's Hospital Wednesday
following what officials said was an attempt to create a low-yield bomb
in his backyard.
Dylan Herrick of 119 Crumlin Ave. suffered burns to
his face and eyes when a homemade chemical bomb he was constructing
exploded in his hands at around 2:15 p.m., according to a police report.
When officers arrived, he was sitting on a neighbor's porch holding a
towel over his face and complaining he could not see. An ambulance took
Herrick to St. Elizabeth Health Center and he was later flown to
Akron.
Police said the boy likely will face a felony charge
alleging illegal manufacture of explosives.
The boy's
brother, Dan, told police that Dylan had said he was going outside to
make a ''works'' bomb, created by mixing chemicals with aluminum in a
plastic bottle. When combined with certain chemicals, aluminum will
create a chemical reaction that results in an
explosion.
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CSB:
DUPONT NEEDS TO 'RE-EXAMINE' SAFETY PRACTICES
Tags:
us_WV, industrial, release, death, phosgene, follow-up
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- DuPont Co. rejected affordable plant and
equipment upgrades, ignored near-miss incidents and violated the
chemical giant's own widely touted safety guidelines in failing to
prevent three January 2010 accidents that left one Belle plant worker
dead, federal investigators said in a report issued
Thursday.
U.S. Chemical Safety Board
officials found common threads -- including poor maintenance practices,
ineffective warning alarms, and insufficient accident investigations --
among the three incidents that occurred over a 33-hour period Jan.
22-23, 2010.
Chief among the findings was that nearly 25 years ago
DuPont rejected proposals to enclose the Belle plant's phosgene unit, a
move that would have protected workers and local residents from the
poisonous material used as a chemical weapon in World War
I.
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JACKSON
FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS SECURED SCENE AT AMMONIA SPILL NEAR INDUSTRIAL STEEL
TREATING CO.
Tags: transportation,
release, response, ammonia, us_MI
The Jackson Fire Department
secured the scene after a minor ammonia spill in the parking lot of
Industrial Steel Treating Co. on Carroll Avenue near Ganson
Street.
Officials are waiting for a company to come and clean
up the ammonia, said Jackson Police Chief Matt Heins, who also oversees
the fire department.
A truck was unloading ammonia when a leak developed,
when a small amount spilled, Heins said. The driver of the truck told
fire officials he put a wrench on a coupling and noticed the leak. Heins
did not know how much spilled.
"The risks and hazards are
not that great," Heins said.
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PESTICIDES MADE ALMOST ONE DOZEN PEOPLE SICK IN CANYON
COUNTY
Tags: us_WA, public, release, response,
pesticides
CANYON COUNTY -- Pesticides made almost one dozen
people sick in Canyon County Tuesday night.
The
Canyon County Sheriff's Office says they received a call around 11 p.m.
from someone who reported a strange smell near the intersection of
Victory Lane and Can-Ada. Next, the caller said they felt
ill.
While heading to the home, officials say they received
reports that nine other people in the area were also feeling sick from
the same smell.
Kuna, Ada County and Canyon County fire fighters were
called in to help, as well as a Hazmat crew from Melba.
After
investigating, they determined it was most likely pesticides from a crop
duster.
Paramedics
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PESTICIDE
LEAK ON ROAD
Tags:
us_CO, transportation, release, response, pesticides
A real
headache for commuters this morning along I-25 and Highway 14 as people
called in to the Colorado State Patrol, about a 500 gallon tank juts
laying in the road leaking fluid.
Westbound Mulberry street
from I-25 was shut down while the Poudre Fire Authority and the
Hazardous Materials Team tested the spilled chemical to see what it
was.
"We believe it is a low toxic herbicide," said Capt.
Patrick Love of Poudre Fire Authority.
Fire
officials say about 150 gallons of the herbicide poured out onto the
highway but proposed no real risk to the public.
"There is
a very small threat," Love said.
The Colorado State Patrol
Hazardous Materials Team also responded to the spill. They say it looks
like a farm vehicle may have accidentally dumped the tank coming off the
I-25 northbound exit onto Mulberry.
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CREWS
EXTINGUISH CHEMICAL FIRE IN SOUTH SACRAMENTO
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Tags: us_CA, industrial, fire,
response, waste
SACRAMENTO, CA - Crews extinguished a fire that broke
out around 5:10 p.m. in a waste disposal company trailer Wednesday
around 7:15 p.m.
Authorities evacuated several streets around the Level
III Hazmat situation on Elder Creek Road that first developed a little
before 8 a.m.
The incident is at Mike and Sons Truck Repair at 8542
Elder Creek Road, according to the Sacramento Fire
Department.
Hazmat responders said there were 40 different
chemicals in the truck/trailer, which belong to a cleaning company
called Clean Harbors.
Sacramento City Fire Capt. Jon Burges said a number of
substances mixed together and created vapors.
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KW
NOW!
Tags:
Canada, laboratory, release, response, gas_cylinders,
nitrogen
Chemical Leak at University of
Waterloo
(Waterloo, ON - Waterloo Fire Rescue
responded to a chemical leak at the University of Waterloo Engineering
building located at 200 University Ave. West yesterday evening.
Upon
arrival firefighters determined there was a nitrogen leak in an
engineering lab room and shut off the leak. The cause was determined to
be a faulty clamp on a nitrogen cylinder hose.
No
injuries were reported. University of Waterloo police and a member of
the university=92s Spills Team also responded to the
scene.
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