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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
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
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
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=3156147Tags: 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
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
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
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
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
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Tags: Pakistan, industrial, explosion, death,
gas_cylinders