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HAZMAT TEAMS RESPONDING TO MORE AND MORE METH LABS
Tags: us_WI, public, release, response, meth_lab
LOMA LINDA HOSPITAL HAZMAT SITUATION CLOSES ER FOR TWO HOURS
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, ag_chems, pesticides
HEMICAL FIRE CAUSES EVACUATION OF 200
Tags: us_GA, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
CHEMICAL SPILL LEADS TO EVACUATIONS AT EAST EL PASO BUSINESS; NO INJURIES REPORTED
Tags: us_TX, transportation, release, environmental, unknown_chemical
STATE POLICE FIND SUSPECTED METH LAB IN FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP HOME AFTER MORNING FIRE
Tags: us_PA, public, fire, response, meth_lab
MONETT TIMES: LOCAL NEWS: CHEMICAL DUMP RESULTS IN FOUL ODOR IN MONETT (05/22/14)
Tags: us_MO, public, release, response, sulphur, waste
FEROCIOUS FIRE CONSUMES SCRAP VEHICLES IN DETROIT AUTO PARTS LOT NEAR CHEMICAL PLANT
Tags: us_MI, public, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
CREWS CLEAN UP METHANOL CHEMICAL SPILL ON FIRST AVENUE IN RIVERSIDE WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Tags: us_IL, transportation, release, response, methanol
CHEMICAL REACTION CAUSE OF SE PORTLAND HOUSE FIRE
Tags: us_OR, laboratory, fire, injury, sulfuric_acid
OFFICIALS SAY CHEMICAL FUELED FIRE THAT DESTROYED DRY-CLEANING BUSINESS IN SW INDIANA CITY
Tags: us_IN, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
WEST VIRGINIA PLANT FACES FINES IN SLURRY SPILL
Tags: us_WV, industrial, release, environmental, unknown_chemical
HERBICIDE SPILL KILLS FISH IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
Tags: us_PA, transportation, release, death, ag_chems, pesticides
CREWS QUICKLY SNUFF TANK FIRE AT PENNSYLVANIA WELL
Tags: us_PA, industrial, fire, response, methane, natural_gas
FIRE AT BATHHOUSE STARTED WITH PAINTING MATERIALS
Tags: us_RI, public, fire, response, other_chemical
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HAZMAT TEAMS RESPONDING TO MORE AND MORE METH LABS
Tags: us_WI, public, release, response, meth_lab
Appleton - Since the beginning of this year, authorities have uncovered about a half a dozen meth labs just in the Fox Valley. Thursday's incident at a Grand Chute motel is the latest that needed to be cleaned up by a specially trained team.
Thanks to an alert motel guest who noticed a strange odor coming from a nearby room, authorities who responded to the suspected meth lab say a crisis was most likely averted.
"Instead of ignoring it they did the right thing and contacted authorities, and that way we were able to intervene before anything serious really did happen," says Appleton firefighter and HAZMAT team member Brian Horst.
Part of that intervention is the Appleton Fire Department HAZMAT team. It's one of three local members of a regional team that covers all of Northeast Wisconsin.
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LOMA LINDA HOSPITAL HAZMAT SITUATION CLOSES ER FOR TWO HOURS
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, ag_chems, pesticides
LOMA LINDA >> Loma Linda University Medical Center temporarily stopped accepting emergency patients due to a hazardous materials situation Friday afternoon.
The hospital was placed on internal disaster diversion around noon, said hospital spokesman Herbert Atienza.
?Health care personnel detected an unknown potentially hazardous material in the emergency department at approximately noon (Friday),? Atienza said.
The emergency entrance and driveway were blocked off with yellow police tape until 2 p.m. when the emergency situation was called off.
Loma Linda Councilman Ovidiu Popescu explained that a landscaper working at the nearby Sierra Vista Apartments was suffering respiratory distress. He was admitted to the hospital?s emergency room, where a staff member who was treating him began suffering the same symptoms as the patient.
?For caution, they locked down the medical center just in case there was a connection,? Popescu said.
Loma Linda Fire Capt. Scott Daniels said fire personnel had responded earlier to the apartment complex in the area of Mt. View and Redlands Boulevard, where a landscaper reported ?suddenly feeling ill? on the job site. Daniels said the area had been ?sprayed the previous day with a pesticide.?
The patient was taken to LLUMC where he was isolated in an area of the hospital?s emergency room parking lot, Daniels said.
The patient and the area he was working in were tested for pesticides and organophosphates.
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HEMICAL FIRE CAUSES EVACUATION OF 200
Tags: us_GA, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
MARIETTA ?Emergency crews were expecting to spend most of the night Friday working the scene of a two-alarm fire on Industrial Park Drive near Cobb Parkway and Allgood Drive in Marietta.
The fire broke out at AmRep, a Marietta-based company that makes chemicals for aerosols, liquids and lubricants, said Officer David Baldwin with Marietta Police.
Baldwin said the fire was first reported by a patrolling officer at about 6:30 Friday evening after he saw the building completely engulfed in flames. No injuries have been reported, he said, and a cause of the fire was not determined by press time.
He did not know the size of the building, but called it ?huge.?
About 25 units from both Cobb and Marietta were working the blaze, as well as two foam-spraying trucks from Lockheed-Martin.
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CHEMICAL SPILL LEADS TO EVACUATIONS AT EAST EL PASO BUSINESS; NO INJURIES REPORTED
Tags: us_TX, transportation, release, environmental, unknown_chemical
EL PASO, Texas ? A chemical spill coming from a semitrailer prompted a HazMat situation in east El Paso Friday morning.
Fire officials said that around 11:20 a.m., firefighters responded to the spill at Expeditors Freight Forwarding Services at 1450 Pullman Dr.
Officials said the facility was evacuated when fire crews saw an unknown liquid was leaking from a trailer.
The spill was caused when a 900-gallon tote was punctured by a 2x4, officials said.
The chemical was labeled as ?Rabidor A733,? which Texas Commission on Environmental Quality deemed as non-threatening for workers and the environment, officials said.
About 100 workers were evacuated and 11 fire units and 28 fire personnel responded to the incident.
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STATE POLICE FIND SUSPECTED METH LAB IN FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP HOME AFTER MORNING FIRE
Tags: us_PA, public, fire, response, meth_lab
State police removed the components of a suspected methamphetamine lab that was found in a Fairview Township home after firefighters were called there on a fire on May 23. The fire, in the 3400 block of Michael Drive, was reported at 8:10 a.m. Firefighters doused a small fire in a corner of the basement and found the suspected lab there. There were no injuries in the fire.
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MONETT TIMES: LOCAL NEWS: CHEMICAL DUMP RESULTS IN FOUL ODOR IN MONETT (05/22/14)
Tags: us_MO, public, release, response, sulphur, waste
A chain of miscommunications resulted in the sulphur or rotting meat smell that has hung over Monett for the past week.
City officials were hopeful the odor issue, which began at the Tyson Foods plant, would dissipate in the near future.
The problem started Friday at the Tyson Foods feed mill in Aurora. A holding tank for the liquid feed product Alimet, added to help chickens absorb protein more effectively, developed a leak. Tyson personnel sealed the leak, mopped up the spill and decided to ship the spilled liquid to Monett for disposal at the wastewater pre-treatment plant.
In the first miscommunication, the feed mill failed to alert the Tyson pre-treatment plant of the shipment. Then, according to sources with the city, the truck driver delivering the Alimet misrepresented what he was hauling, telling the the pre-treatment plant operator that he had animal fat, a typical material for the plant to process. After about 20 minutes of unloading, the operator halted the process, realizing the material was not animal fat. He called Becky Thomas, Tyson's pretreatment operator, who ordered the rest of the load to go into storage for handling on Monday. By then, an unknown quantity of Alimet had entered the system.
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FEROCIOUS FIRE CONSUMES SCRAP VEHICLES IN DETROIT AUTO PARTS LOT NEAR CHEMICAL PLANT
Tags: us_MI, public, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
DETROIT, MI ? The pop of small explosions and the whine of car alarms filled the air ?along with plumes of black smoke ? as vehicles in a Detroit auto parts lot were picked off by flames Thursday afternoon.
Fire broke out in one of the vehicles at Hende Auto Parts, 9201 Freeland in west Detroit, about 2:30 p.m. but quickly spread, stoked by fuel remaining in some of the gas tanks.
Multiple cars and buildings caught fire. Fire crews, including at least 30 firefighters from seven companies were on scene.
According to fire officials, there were no injuries; however a fight broke out among about 20 individuals soon after the fire ignited, Detroit Fire Chief Randy Gibson tells MLive.
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CREWS CLEAN UP METHANOL CHEMICAL SPILL ON FIRST AVENUE IN RIVERSIDE WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Tags: us_IL, transportation, release, response, methanol
RIVERSIDE ? Officers from the Riverside and Lyons police departments responded to an unknown chemical spill at about 5:05 p.m. Wednesday at First and Ogden Avenues.
According to a news release from the Riverside Fire Department, the unknown chemical was later identified as methanol, which escaped from an open hatch on an unknown tanker truck that was last seen traveling north on First Avenue, according to the release.
The Riverside Fire Department arrived at the spill to find approximately 10 gallons of liquid on the roadway. The department was aided by the Illinois Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, which assisted in the clean up of the chemical spill using water and detergents.
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CHEMICAL REACTION CAUSE OF SE PORTLAND HOUSE FIRE
Tags: us_OR, laboratory, fire, injury, sulfuric_acid
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) ? Firefighters determined that a chemical reaction was the cause of a fire at a SE Portland home Wednesday evening.
Portland Fire & Rescue crews were dispatched to a house fire at 1532 SE 48th Avenue at 7:48 p.m.
Portland Fire & Rescue crews remove chemical found inside a SE Portland home that caught on fire, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. (Portland Fire & Rescue/Dick Harris)
When crews arrived, they found a two story home with smoke showing and three occupants outside ? one had burn injuries.
Firefighters said the injured person dragged a mattress out of the home but not before the fire had extended to the bedroom.
A fire investigator who was called to the scene after the fire was extinguished found chemistry lab equipment in the bedroom.
Firefighters specially trained to deal with hazardous materials were called to the scene from Portland Fire & Rescue Station 7 to identify items found in the room.
The crew was determined that a chemical reaction was the cause of the fire and some of the burn injuries. Among the chemicals found in the bedroom were phosphorous and sulfuric acid
Investigators estimated there was approximately $20,000 in damage to the home and contents.
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OFFICIALS SAY CHEMICAL FUELED FIRE THAT DESTROYED DRY-CLEANING BUSINESS IN SW INDIANA CITY
Tags: us_IN, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
Indiana ? Officials say chemicals fueled a fire that destroyed a dry-cleaning business in the southwestern Indiana city of Vincennes.
Off-duty firefighters were called in late Wednesday to help put out the blaze that sent flames through the roof of C&G Quality Dry Cleaning Services.
Vincennes Fire Chief Gordon Becher tells WTHI-TV that the blaze spread so quickly that crews couldn't put water on the building fast enough.
The business owner tells WFIE-TV that all was fine a few hours earlier when he locked up the business that he's owned for 10 years.
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WEST VIRGINIA PLANT FACES FINES IN SLURRY SPILL
Tags: us_WV, industrial, release, environmental, unknown_chemical
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ? West Virginia environmental regulators have proposed more than $21,000 in fines for a Kanawha County plant that spilled coal slurry into a creek.
The fines are for three citations issued after 108,000 gallons of slurry spilled into Fields Creek from Patriot Coal's Kanawha Eagle preparation plant on Feb. 11.
Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Tom Aluise told the Charleston Daily Mail (http://bit.ly/R8Pc1T">http://bit.ly/R8Pc1T) that the company is contesting about $20,000 in penalties associated with two orders issued after the spill. One stopped all work except cleanup at the plant. The other was a notice of violation stemming from discolored water entering the Kanawha River during cleanup on Feb. 19.
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HERBICIDE SPILL KILLS FISH IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
Tags: us_PA, transportation, release, death, ag_chems, pesticides
POTTERS MILLS (AP) ? The state Department of Environmental Protection says 100 gallons of concentrated herbicide that spilled from a truck has killed fish in a six-mile stretch of a central Pennsylvania stream.
DEP spokesman Dan Spadoni says a 200-gallon container of herbicide fell of the truck Monday on U.S. Route 322 in Potters Mills, Centre County and about half of it washed down a storm sewer into nearby Potter Run.
The Centre Daily Times (http://bit.ly/1lPAF4T">http://bit.ly/1lPAF4T) reports the agency had confirmed by Tuesday that fish were killed as far away as Sinking Creek, about 5.8 miles away.
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CREWS QUICKLY SNUFF TANK FIRE AT PENNSYLVANIA WELL
Tags: us_PA, industrial, fire, response, methane, natural_gas
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) ? Rex Energy Corp. says it's investigating a fire at a storage tank at one of the company's natural gas wells in rural western Pennsylvania.
Butler Township fire Chief Toby Wehr says it took about an hour to put out the fire using a chemical mixture on Tuesday.
The fire was reported in the township about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday at the site about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.
The well site is unmanned, and nobody was hurt in the blaze and no residents had to be evacuated.
The tank that burned contained about 200 barrels of an unspecified natural gas byproduct. The well head itself was not on fire or damaged.
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FIRE AT BATHHOUSE STARTED WITH PAINTING MATERIALS
Tags: us_RI, public, fire, response, other_chemical
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) ? Fire officials say a blaze that destroyed a building that housed bathrooms and showers at Newport's Easton's Beach began in improperly stored painting materials.
The Newport Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/IX5CGL">http://bit.ly/IX5CGL ) investigators determined the chemicals in a second-floor storage room spontaneously combusted on Monday afternoon.
The fire was brought under control within about an hour. But fire officials say the flames pushed through the building with help from heavy winds.
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