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MAN FOUND DEAD INSIDE CAR ON ARSENAL STREET; HAZMAT
TEAMS CALLED-IN WHEN NOTE WARNED OF POISON
Tags: us_MA, public, release, death,
suicide
WATER PIPE BREAKS AT ALLENTOWN SEWAGE
PLANT
Tags: us_NJ, public,
release, environmental, sulfur_dioxide
UPDATED:
HAZMAT CLOSES PEARL STREET, BROOKLINE
Tags: us_MA, public, release, environmental,
petroleum
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPILL REPORTED ON SUDBURY WATER
DISTRICT PROPERTY
Tags:
us_MA, industrial, release, response, chlorine
THE
CLOSED DOWN AND CONTROVERSIAL DETROIT POLICE CRIME LAB BECOMES A HAZMAT
SCENE
Tags: us_MI, laboratory,
discovery, response, unknown_chemical
ALON
DISCOVERS LEAK WHILE STARTING UP BAKERSFIELD REFINERY
Tags: us_CA, industrial, release, response,
hydrogen_sulfide
HAZMAT TEAM CONTAINS CHEMICAL SPILL
Tags: us_OH, public, release, response,
unknown_chemical
UNSTABLE CHEMICALS MADE SAFE
Tags: Ireland, public, discovery, response,
picric_acid
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MAN FOUND
DEAD INSIDE CAR ON ARSENAL STREET; HAZMAT TEAMS CALLED-IN WHEN NOTE
WARNED OF POISON
Tags:
us_MA, public, release, death, suicide
A man was
found dead inside a car on Arsenal Street this evening and authorities
are saying the death was an apparent suicide.
According
to Watertown Police Lt. Michael Lawn, a couple walking their dog near
the parking lot of 480 Arsenal St. spotted the silver Honda Accord and
called in a suspicious vehicle to police. Officers were called to the
scene just before 6 p.m. Saturday.
When police arrived on
scene, Lawn said they found notes on the front driver- and
passenger-side windows stating "poison used, stay away." The note also
mentioned the poison used, "H2S" (hydrogen sulfide), as well as
instructions to call hazmat teams.
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WATER
PIPE BREAKS AT ALLENTOWN SEWAGE PLANT
Tags:
us_NJ, public, release, environmental, sulfur_dioxide
ALLENTOWN
=97 Emergency personnel responded to the municipal sewage plant Monday
night after a water pipe broke, causing another pipe and valve to fail
spraying sulfur dioxide inside a secured room on the site, according to
the fire marshal.
Firefighters initially responded around 8:30 p.m. on
Monday after an alarm was tripped by a broken pipe spraying water inside
a containment room at the sewage plant which lead to a pipe containing
the sulfur dioxide to break and contaminate the room, Fire Marshal
Dennis Symons said.
The Monmouth County HazMat team responded and the
situation was under control and cleared by about 12:30 a.m Tuesday
morning, Symons said.
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UPDATED:
HAZMAT CLOSES PEARL STREET, BROOKLINE
Tags: us_MA, public,
release, environmental, petroleum
[Updated 2:31 p.m.] An oil
tank on the roof of the apartment complex at 77 Pearl Street, containing
between 250-300 gallons of heating oil, started to leak into the sewer
system.
According
to Deputy Chief Robert Ward of the Brookline Fire Department,
Firefighters and maintenance workers were able to control the leak
allowing only approximately 10-15 gallons of oil into the sewer
system.
Brookline Water Department and DPW responded with
vaccuum trucks to try and remove the oil and also used soak pads in the
sewers. Pearl Street between Brookline Avenue and Washington Street
remains closed.
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HAZARDOUS
MATERIALS SPILL REPORTED ON SUDBURY WATER DISTRICT
PROPERTY
Tags: us_MA, industrial, release, response,
chlorine
SUDBURY =97
Teams in
hazardous materials suits fixed a chlorine gas leak yesterday at the
Sudbury water treatment plant that authorities said did not threaten a
nearby school or homes.
About a third of the contents of a 150-pound tank
escaped into the air around 11 a.m. due to a faulty valve, authorities
said.
The gas was released when a Sudbury Water District
employee could not close a balky valve during a routine changing of the
tank, officials said. When the valve stuck, the worker left the
building, and the fire department was called.
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THE
CLOSED DOWN AND CONTROVERSIAL DETROIT POLICE CRIME LAB BECOMES A HAZMAT
SCENE
Tags: us_MI, laboratory, discovery, response,
unknown_chemical
DETROIT, Mich (WXYZ) - The entire block in front of
the closed down and controversial Detroit Police Crime Lab was closed
down for hours Tuesday as the scene turned into a HAZMAT situation.
Investigators with Detroit Police Internal Affairs and
Michigan State Police say that's because of the chemicals that have been
in the building, in a closed off room since the buidling closed. The room is reportedly
filled with black mold and chemicals that if spilled or combined could
reportedly become toxic and dangerous or even
explosive.
Another reason the street was blocked off was because
Tiger fans park on Brush in front of the building and people walk or
ride bikes by and there was no guarantee the situation would stay
safe.
A company called Marine Pollution was called in to
help. After hours of being at the closed down lab they decided the
chemicals that have been there for a long time should be removed within 24
hours.
People who live nearby say the whole thing makes them
uneasy and they will be glad when the place is cleaned out and torn
down.
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ALON
DISCOVERS LEAK WHILE STARTING UP BAKERSFIELD REFINERY
Tags: us_CA, industrial,
release, response, hydrogen_sulfide
Alon USA Energy Inc. (ALJ)
is trying to identify the source of a hydrogen sulfide leak at its
Bakersfield, California, refinery that was discovered while operators
were starting up production.
The
company has evacuated all contractors from the units, said Gordon
Leaman, the refinery=92s general manager. According to a notice filed
with state regulators, the leak was discovered at 8:10 a.m. local time
today.
Alon said in March that it
expected to start the hydrocracker at the refinery by mid-2011. The
company plans to process vacuum gas oil produced from its other
California refineries. Alon bought the refinery from Flying J
Inc.
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HAZMAT
TEAM CONTAINS CHEMICAL SPILL
Tags:
us_OH, public, release, response, unknown_chemical
WOODLAWN
-- The hazmat team has contained a chemical spill at a Woodlawn business
Wednesday morning.
Crews
were called to the location on Marion Road about 4 a.m. for a report of
a medium sized spill. At one point, they issued a "shelter in place" and
asked all nearby residents to stay inside their homes.
Reports indicate crews were able to get the spill
contained in about an hour. Crews at the scene told News 5's Alison
Montoya the chemical was actually oil and not as hazardous as once
thought. They said about 30 gallons had spilled at the
scene.
The company in the area,
Academy Rentals, will now need to cleanup the oil, according to crews at
the scene.
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UNSTABLE
CHEMICALS MADE SAFE
Tags: Ireland, public,
discovery, response, picric_acid
An Army bomb disposal team
made safe a quantity of unstable picric acid in Killmallock, Co Limerick
this morning.
The Defence Forces deployed the team to a retail
premises on Sheare St. where a quantity of the unstable chemical had
been found during a routine audit of chemicals.
Picric
acid is a chemical re-agent and is frequently used in laboratories but
can crystallise and become unstable over time.
The team
arrived on scene at 10.30am and the substance was made safe via a
controlled explosion. The area was declared safe at
11.40am
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