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TANKER CRASH CAUSES HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL SPILL NEAR
CLEARWATER
Tags: Canada,
transportation, release, environmental,
unknown_chemical
MOBILE METH LAB FOUND IN TARGET PARKING
LOT
Tags: us_TN, public,
discovery, response, meth_lab
POISONOUS CLOUD FLOATS OVER NORTHERN BULGARIAN TOWN AS
TANKER TRUCK LOADED WITH CHEMICAL CRASHES
Tags: Bulgaria, transportation, release, response,
styrene
MANGERE COLLEGE FIRE UNDER
INVESTIGATION
Tags: New, Zealand,
laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
IT=BFS
BEEN MORE THAN TWO DAYS SINCE A TRAILER CONTAINING AROUND 40 HAZARDOUS
MATERIALS ERUPTED INTO FLAMES AT AN ELDER CREEK DR. STORAGE
YARD
Tags: us_CA, transportation,
fire, response, unknown_chemical, follow-up
HOME
HEALTHCARE VAN FLIPS; HAZMAT CREWS RESPOND
Tags: us_VA, transportation, fire, response,
oxygen
FIRE TRUCKS AT INDUSTRIAL BLAZE
Tags: Australia, industrial, fire, response,
acetylene, gas_cylinders
FAA PROPOSES $689,800 FEDEX HAZMAT
FINE
Tags: us_CT, public,
discovery, response, follow-up
PERRY HIGH EMPLOYEES,
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS EVACUATED DUE TO PROPANE LEAK
Tags: us_OH, education, release, response,
propane
FIRE RAGED IN THE SMALL TOWN OF BLAKESBURG FRIDAY
MORNING.
Tags: us_IA, transportation,
explosion, response, ammonia
FERTILIZER PLANT DESTROYED BY FIRE
Tags: us_NC, industrial, fire, response,
ag_chems
FIRE CREWS TACKLE A HUGE SPILL OF FLAMMABLE LIQUID AT A CHEMICAL PLANT
IN DAYTON.
Tags: us_TN,
industrial, release, environmental, flammables
TWO MEN
DIE INSIDE WINTERINGHAM 'CHEMICAL' CAR
Tags: United, Kingdom, public, release,
death
UPDATE 9:03 P.M. FRIDAY: APPLE VALLEY FIREFIGHTERS
RESPOND TO SEWER LINE EXPLOSION IN BURNSVILLE
Tags: us_MN, public, explosion, response,
unknown_chemical
FIVE-ALARM CHEMICAL FIRE SHUTS DOWN SERVICE ROAD BY
TEXAS 114
Tags: us_TX, industrial,
explosion, response, unknown_chemical
BOMB
DISPOSAL TEAM TEND TO UNSAFE CHEMICAL AT ITT
Tags: Ireland, laboratory, discovery, response,
picric_acid
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TANKER
CRASH CAUSES HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL SPILL NEAR CLEARWATER
Tags: Canada,
transportation, release, environmental,
unknown_chemical
CLEARWATER (NEWS1130) - The Provincial Emergency
Program (PEP) and Ministry of Environment are on scene of hazardous
chemical spill on Highway 5 near Clearwater.
A tanker
carrying the dangerous substance and a mini van with a tractor unit
collided this morning, causing the tractor and trailer to overturn and
rupture the tanker unit.
It's
unclear what substance the tanker is leaking. Mounties have only said
that it's corrosive and hazardous.
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MOBILE
METH LAB FOUND IN TARGET PARKING LOT
Tags: us_TN, public, discovery, response,
meth_lab
BRENTWOOD, Tenn.- In the Cool Springs area Sunday
afternoon, police found a potentially explosive situation in a busy
parking lot.
A woman is in custody after Brentwood police found her
involved with the suspected meth lab. While ingredients for making meth
were found, no meth was actually being cooked at the
time.
Police were checking the Target parking lot in
Brentwood when they say they saw a woman acting suspicious. When they
spoke with the woman, they found out there are several warrants out of
Kentucky and Tennessee for her. When they investigated further, they
found the ingredients that are used to manufacture
meth.
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POISONOUS
CLOUD FLOATS OVER NORTHERN BULGARIAN TOWN AS TANKER TRUCK LOADED WITH
CHEMICAL CRASHES
Tags:
Bulgaria, transportation, release, response, styrene
Veliko
Tarnovo. A poisonous cloud has floated over the northern town of
Debelets following a crash with a tanker truck loaded with a chemical.
The cloud has already passed by and the content of the substance in the
air has started to go down, Yordan Yordanov, chief of Veliko Tarnovo
District Service for Fire Safety and Civil Protection, told FOCUS News
Agency.
According to him the vehicle
was loaded with styrene. The substance irritates eyes and respiratory
system and is highly explosive.
350 residents of the town of Debelets, including 51
children from a children=92s home in the town, were evacuated at about
4:30 a.m. on Monday.
According
to Yordanov the residents of Debelets are out of
danger.
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MANGERE
COLLEGE FIRE UNDER INVESTIGATION
Tags:
New, Zealand, laboratory, fire, response,
unknown_chemical
olice and fire safety officers are investigating a
fire at Mangere College in South Auckland this
afternoon.
Fire Chief Bob Morrison said when they arrived they
found the science lab and adjourning office well
ablaze.
''It was quickly extinguished,=94 he
said.
As a precaution fire crews involved underwent a
chemical de-contamination.
He said it was too early to say whether the fire was
suspicious or not.
The buildings suffered moderate
damage.
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IT=BFS
BEEN MORE THAN TWO DAYS SINCE A TRAILER CONTAINING AROUND 40 HAZARDOUS
MATERIALS ERUPTED INTO FLAMES AT AN ELDER CREEK DR. STORAGE YARD
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
Tags: us_CA, transportation, fire, response,
unknown_chemical, follow-up
It=92s been more than two days since a trailer
containing around 40 hazardous materials erupted into flames at an Elder
Creek Dr. storage yard Wednesday afternoon.
Sacramento Fire Department was called out around 8:00am that
morning because the trailer was smoking. Since fire crews couldn=92t
determine the material that was smoking it was declared a Level 3 Hazmat
situation, which is the hi
Sac Fire said the company Clean Harbors was in charge
of disposing the trailer=92s contents. The fire department was waiting
for Clean Harbors to remove the materials from the trailer so they could
determine what was smoking, but then at about 5:15pm Wednesday the
trailer went up in flames.
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HOME
HEALTHCARE VAN FLIPS; HAZMAT CREWS RESPOND
Tags: us_VA, transportation, fire,
response, oxygen
RICHMOND, VA (WTVR) - A Lincare Home Healthcare van
ran off the road and overturned in a ditch on Bradwill Road Friday
morning.
The truck was carrying oxygen tanks, a few of which
were leaking, so hazmat members removed the tanks before the van could
be removed.
Crews worried that if there was a possible fire that
the leaking oxygen could ignite.
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FIRE
TRUCKS AT INDUSTRIAL BLAZE
Tags: Australia, industrial,
fire, response, acetylene, gas_cylinders
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.
The 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.
Ten
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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FAA
PROPOSES $689,800 FEDEX HAZMAT FINE
Tags: us_CT, public,
discovery, response, follow-up
The Federal Aviation
Administration is proposing a civil penalty of $689,800 against FedEx
for allegedly violating hazardous materials regulations while handling
shipments in 2009.
The FAA
said it found the alleged violations during a dangerous goods inspection
at a FedEx Express cargo handling facility at Bradley International
Airport near Hartford, Conn., from Aug. 31 to Oct. 1,
2009.
In 89 instances from June 13
to Sept. 4, 2009, the FAA alleged, FedEx =93failed to provide
pilots-in-command with complete, accurate information on the nature,
quantity and weight of hazardous materials loaded on their
aircraft.=94
FedEx also accepted four
hazmat shipments for air transport when the materials =93were not
accurately described and certified in the accompanying shipper=92s
documents,=94 the FAA said. Those took place on June 18 and Aug. 26,
2009.
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PERRY
HIGH EMPLOYEES, CONSTRUCTION WORKERS EVACUATED DUE TO PROPANE
LEAK
Tags:
us_OH, education, release, response, propane
PERRY
TWP. =97
The Fire Department
evacuated about three dozen Perry High employees and construction
workers after it was discovered that one of five 100-pound propane tanks
stored on site was leaking, according to Chief Mark
Martin.
The Stark County HAZMAT team has been called to the
scene in order to more closely inspect the tank. Firefighters will
suppress the spread of vapors using a light water
stream.
The propane cylinders are being used during
construction and renovation of Perry High School.
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FIRE
RAGED IN THE SMALL TOWN OF BLAKESBURG FRIDAY MORNING.
http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=638388Tags: us_IA, transportation, explosion, response,
ammonia
Fire raged in the small town of Blakesburg Friday
Morning.
It all started about 8:30 a.m. after a truck driver
was loading or unloading fuel.
All of the sudden his vehicle burst into
flames.
Fire fighters across four counties responded to the
blaze. Smoke could be
seen miles down the road as the tanker carrying diesel fuel and gasoline
sent fireballs into the sky.
=93We
started putting water on it and then the fire got pretty good sized and
we knew we were probably going to lose the tank itself,=94 said Ottumwa
fire chief Tony Miller.
As if the fire wasn=92t bad enough, other tanks just
feet away held flammable fuel that could explode.
=93We had
some gasoline and diesel tanks just to the right of the tanker that had
exploded. We had
anhydrous ammonia nurse tanks to the left of it and we had the fire
right in the middle of it.=94
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FERTILIZER PLANT DESTROYED BY FIRE
Tags: us_NC, industrial,
fire, response, ag_chems
ENFIELD, N.C. (WTVD) -- A fertilizer plant in Halifax
County was destroyed by fire late Friday night.
Three
fire departments responded to the Helena Chemical Plant after receiving
reports of a fire in the shop.
Flames then moved to the
warehouse, and quickly grew.
No one was working at the time, and no one was hurt,
but about 20 homes in the area had to be evacuated.
The fire
smoldered into early Saturday morning.
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Tags: us_TN, industrial, release, environmental,
flammables
Fire crews tackle a huge spill of flammable liquid at
a chemical plant in Dayton.
Around 900
gallons of the liquid spilled at the Fuji Hunt plant on manufacturers
road around 7 a-m.
Firefighters
from Rhea and Hamilton Counties responded to clean up the
spill.
It took more
than four hours to clear the scene.
There are no
reports of injuries or evacuations.
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TWO MEN
DIE INSIDE WINTERINGHAM 'CHEMICAL' CAR
Tags: United, Kingdom, public, release,
death
The bodies of two men have been found in a car that
had warnings about dangerous chemicals pasted on the
outside.
Humberside Police said the car was parked along a
river bank on Booth Nooking Lane at Winteringham, North Lincolnshire, on
Friday morning.
Police, firefighters and paramedics were called to the
scene where both men were found to be dead.
The
identity of the men has not yet been established by
officers.
In a statement Humberside Police said: "We initially
attended the scene and found a red coloured car containing two adult men
who showed no apparent sign of life.
"On the outside of the car
there were signs warning people not to enter due to potentially harmful
chemicals within.
"This prompted a chemical safety response from police,
ambulance service and Humberside Fire and Rescue in order to secure the
area and the vehicle with a view to safely entering the vehicle to
recover the two men from within.
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UPDATE
9:03 P.M. FRIDAY: APPLE VALLEY FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO SEWER LINE
EXPLOSION IN BURNSVILLE
Tags:
us_MN, public, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
Apple
Valley firefighters on Friday responded to an apparent underground
explosion in a Burnsville neighborhood of which authorities still were
still seeking the cause on Friday night.
Nobody
was hurt in the blast that shook a neighborhood in northeast Burnsville
on Friday afternoon, but at least 100 residents were evacuated from the
neighborhood near River Hills Drive and Hwy 13 East after an underground
sewer line erupted, sending three manhole covers flying between eight
and 12 feet in the air.
=93Those manholes weigh 100 pounds a piece," said Fire
Marshal Lee LaTourelle. "That=92s a lot of force."
The
source of the blast remains unknown. LaTourelle said many residents
complained of a distinct smell of gasoline shortly before and after the
explosion. On arrival, emergency workers found high levels of carbon
monoxide in the sewer lines=97up to 1,000 to 1,200 parts per
million.
=93That=92s really explosive," LaTourelle said. "We
still don=92t know quite what happened."
LaTourelle said it was possible that somewhere in the system
an incomplete combustion produced the onslaught of CO.
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FIVE-ALARM CHEMICAL FIRE SHUTS DOWN SERVICE ROAD BY TEXAS
114
Tags:
us_TX, industrial, explosion, response,
unknown_chemical
GRAPEVINE -- An explosion at an industrial plant sent
thick black smoke rolling over Texas 114 on Friday afternoon and shut
down a service road.
The fire at GT Products started just before 3 p.m. but
caused traffic headaches through rush hour. The access road reopened at
6:30 p.m.
Firefighters from multiple agencies responded to the
five-alarm blaze at 501 Industrial Blvd.
Hazardous
chemicals were involved, prompting extra caution from firefighters, said
Lt. Todd Dearing, a Grapevine police spokesman.
Dearing
said there was no danger to the public.
No
injuries were reported, but a couple of firefighters were treated for
heat exhaustion, he said.
According to the company's website, GT Products
supplies silicone, plastic and other products.
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BOMB
DISPOSAL TEAM TEND TO UNSAFE CHEMICAL AT ITT
Tags: Ireland, laboratory,
discovery, response, picric_acid
An Army Bomb Disposal Team
made safe a quantity of unstable picric acid at Institute of Technology
Tralee this afternoon.
The Defence Forces deployed the team to ITT where the
unstable chemical had been found during a routine audit of chemicals in
a Science Laboratory.
The team arrived on scene at 11.45am and removed the
chemical to waste ground.
The Bomb
Disposal Team carried out a controlled explosion in order to make the
chemical safe. The scene was declared safe at 1pm.
Picric
acid is a chemical re-agent and is routinely used in laboratories but
can crystallise and become unstable over time.
This is
the 143rd call out for the Army Bomb Disposal Teams this year and the
11th substance of concern safely disposed of.
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