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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 08:03:30 -0500
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HAZMAT TEAM INVESTIGATING CHEMICAL SPILL IN CARSON
Tags: us_CA, public, release, response, unknown_chemical
UST FIRE TRACED TO AIR CON; DAMAGE AT P.1M
Tags: Philippines, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
CHEMICAL PLANT FIRE IN LOUSIANA
Tags: us_LA, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
SAFD: CHEMICAL FIRE BREAKS OUT IN THE BACK OF A SAN ANTONIO DUMPSTER TRUCK
Tags: us_TX, transportation, fire, response, solvent, waste
FIFTEEN INJURED IN RUSSIAN CHEMICAL PLANT EXPLOSION
Tags: Russia, industrial, explosion, injury, petroleum
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HAZMAT TEAM INVESTIGATING CHEMICAL SPILL IN CARSON
Tags: us_CA, public, release, response, unknown_chemical
CARSON - About 10 gallons of an unknown chemical spilled today at a business in the Carson area, and a hazardous-materials team was sent to handle the problem.
About four dozen firefighters were sent to the 20800 block of South Santa Fe Avenue shortly after 1 p.m., according to county fire Inspector Tony Akins. No injuries were reported.
The business was evacuated while crews worked to identify the chemical and clear the scene, Akins said.
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UST FIRE TRACED TO AIR CON; DAMAGE AT P.1M
Tags: Philippines, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
MANILA, Philippines?A fire broke out in a student laboratory at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Hospital in Manila before noon Tuesday, leaving around P100,000 worth of damage to property but causing no deaths or injuries.
It resulted, however, in some minor inconvenience to several patients who had to be transferred to nearby buildings for their own safety and doctors whose clinic operations were disrupted.
Fire officials said the blaze began at 11 a.m. in the skills laboratory on the sixth floor of the hospital?s Martin de Porres annex building on A. H. Lacson Avenue in Sampaloc, Manila. It is where UST nursing students conduct health care simulation practices and is situated right next to a chemistry laboratory.
According to a UST nursing student, who asked not to be identified, they were attending classes in the chemistry laboratory when they heard an explosion, prompting them to immediately evacuate.
?Another nursing student told me that they saw the air-conditioning unit in the [adjacent room] on fire,? the student added.
SFO1 Anthony Quilon of the Sampaloc Fire Station said they also suspected that the fire was caused by the air conditioner although he stressed that this was still under investigation.
He added that they did not have a hard time putting out the fire since it had not yet spread when they arrived in the area. This was in spite of the fact that it took them some time to get to the site because some of the hospital?s security guards blocked their fire trucks.
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CHEMICAL PLANT FIRE IN LOUSIANA
Tags: us_LA, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
MOORINGSPORT, LA (KSLA) -
A fire at a chemical plant in North Caddo Parish is said to be under control, but firefighters are still working to put out "hot spots."
It happened at the UOP Honeywell Plant in the 8700 block of Mooringsport Rd. near Blanchard.
Honeywell spokesperson Peter Dalpe says employees on the overnight shift spotted the flames near one of the production lines and called the fire department just before 1 a.m. Wednesday.
Caddo Fire District #1 Chief Dan Cotton says it started in a scrubber unit, where one of the 2 ducts that feed the unit caught fire and spread into a tower
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SAFD: CHEMICAL FIRE BREAKS OUT IN THE BACK OF A SAN ANTONIO DUMPSTER TRUCK
Tags: us_TX, transportation, fire, response, solvent, waste
SAN ANTONIO -- A chemical fire broke out in the back of a wast-management truck during a dumpster run in west San Antonio.
To save his truck, the driver pulled into an Academy Sports and Outdoors parking lot and dumped the burning load onto the asphalt.
Because chemicals were involved, firefighters said the flames reacted like paint thinner, making them difficult to put out. Water caused the blaze to release smoldering foam.
According to the San Antonio Fire Department, the Academy parking lot has several drains that lead straight into a nearby waterway. So, before they attempted to battle the fire, the waterway needed to be blocked.
A SAFD Hazmat team was called to help block the waterway.
According to the waste-management company, arrangements would be made for employees to go back and pick up the waste after the fire is extinguished.
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FIFTEEN INJURED IN RUSSIAN CHEMICAL PLANT EXPLOSION
Tags: Russia, industrial, explosion, injury, petroleum
On February 26, the Stavrolen polyolefins plant at Budennovsk in Russia?s Stavropol region experienced an explosion and fire that injured 15 employees. Russian oil and chemicals group Lukoil said 15 personnel had suffered burns and other injuries and four of them were hospitalised, after a fire broke out in the gas separation section of the ethylene plant at the plant in southern Russia.
Lukoil-Neftekhim's Stavrolen plant - Photo: Lukoil
Owner-operator Lukoil-Neftekhim, a petrochemical subsidiary of Lukoil, said it has suspended production as a result of the incident. Its cause, nature and scope as well as the expected date of resumption of output would be decided by a special commission set up with state supervisory authorities.
According to European Plastics News, this is the third incident of this type at the plant in the past six years. The Stavrolen plant only fully came back on stream in September 2012, almost a year after nine employees were injured in a previous ?20m blaze there in December 2011.
The cause of that incident was a gas leak in the ethylene plant. It occurred a little over two months after an industrial safety inspection by the Russian state environmental, technical and nuclear regulatory agency Rostekhnadzor.
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