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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
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8270426/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
http://articles.glendale newspress.com/2011-07-07/news/tn-gnp-0706-fire_1_ammunition-hazardous-mate rials-fire-crews
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
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/new s/mysterious-smell-causes-evacuations-at-grand-chute-apartment-complex
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
http://www2.newsvirginian.com /news/2011/jul/08/chemical-spill-forces-employees-out-reo-distributi-ar-11 58984/
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
http://www.modbee.com/2011/07/07/1764719/chemicals-ignit e-at-south-sacramento.html
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 &amp; 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.

 

rbenton**At_Symbol_Here**sacbee.com - Thick smoke pours from a trailer at Mike &amp; Son's Truck Repair near Elder Creek Road. Fire crews quickly put out the fire.
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
http://timesofindia.india times.com/city/chandigarh/Over-Rs-535-cr-property-gutted-in-fire/articlesh ow/9140138.cms
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
http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.de tail/id/558993/Teen-hurt-in-bomb-explosion.html?nav=5021
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 
http://wvgazette.com/News/ 201107070326
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.
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2011/07/post_151.html
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
http://www.nwcn.com/home/?fId=125074554& ;amp;fPath=/news/local&amp;fDomain=10227
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
http://www.noco5.com/story/15036019/haz-mat-spills-closes-hi ghway-14-over-i-25
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
http://www.news10.net/news/local/artic le/144516/2/Crews-extinguish-chemical-fire-in-south-Sacramento< /div>
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!
http://www.kwnow .ca/npps/story.cfm?nppage=1781
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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