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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:14:01 +0000
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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 7:13:50 AM
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Table of Contents (12 articles)
TOMPKINSVILLE CHEMICAL LEAK FORCES EVACUATION
Tags: us_KY, industrial, release, response, chlorine
MEN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER ACCIDENTALLY MAKING TOXIC GAS IN THEIR YARD
Tags: Australia, public, release, injury, chlorine, hydrochloric_acid
HAZMAT CALLED BECAUSE OF CHEMICAL COMBINATION IN TOILET
Tags: us_VA, public, release, response, bleach, sulfuric_acid
CEDAR RAPIDS WOMAN INJURED IN HOUSE EXPLOSION
Tags: us_IA, public, explosion, injury, natural_gas
MFD HAZARDOUS MATERIALS UNIT STOPS CHLORINE LEAK
Tags: us_HI, industrial, release, response, chlorine
HAZMAT CREWS RESPOND TO WORKER INJURED AT CITY PARK
Tags: us_CO, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
HAZMAT TEAM CALLED OUT TO WHEATFIELD PLANT
Tags: us_NY, industrial, release, response, acids
DRONES KEEP GETTING INTO FIREFIGHTERS' WAY
Tags: us_AZ, transportation, discovery, environmental
JOHNSON CITY PRESS: IDENTITY OF CHEMICAL STILL NOT KNOWN
Tags: us_TN, industrial, follow-up, response, unknown_chemical
INTENSE FLAMES RIP THROUGH RESEARCH LABORATORY IN ORANGE
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
CHEMICAL LEAK, FIRE PROMPTS EVACUATIONS IN MONT BELVIEU
Tags: us_TX, industrial, release, response, unknown_chemical
COUNTRY CLUB WORKER SICKENED BY POOL CHEMICALS
Tags: us_MA, public, release, injury, pool_chemicals
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TOMPKINSVILLE CHEMICAL LEAK FORCES EVACUATION
Tags: us_KY, industrial, release, response, chlorine
TOMPKINSVILLE, Ky. (WBKO) -- A cylinder malfunction releases gas into the heart of Tompkinsville.
"The operators were calling in from the sewer treatment plant that there had been a chlorine gas leak. As we got over here we found the operators out of the facility," said Monroe County Emergency Management Director David Rich.
Emergency management set up a command post at the old Monroe County High School before clearing a one mile radius area.
"We proceeded to evacuated from the immediate area. We evacuated businesses and homes."
As emergency management crews read the chlorine levels in the air Tuesday morning, dozens of people were sent to the armory in Tompkinsville, left with nothing to do other than wait.
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MEN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER ACCIDENTALLY MAKING TOXIC GAS IN THEIR YARD
Tags: Australia, public, release, injury, chlorine, hydrochloric_acid
Two men have been taken to hospital after they were overcome by chemical fumes in Australia's Blue Mountains on Tuesday afternoon.
The pair were trying to mix together chemicals to put in a backyard swimming pool in Faulconbridge, New South Wales when they combined several litres of hydrochloric acid with a large amount of chlorine.
Combining the two chemicals can produce toxic chlorine gas.
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HAZMAT CALLED BECAUSE OF CHEMICAL COMBINATION IN TOILET
Tags: us_VA, public, release, response, bleach, sulfuric_acid
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) " Hazmat crews for the City of Norfolk were called to an apartment on Enfield Avenue, off of W. Little Creek Road, Tuesday morning.
According to Norfolk dispatchers, a resident at the apartment complex put bleach, some kind of sulfuric acid and another product in a toilet that was clogged.
Dispatch says there is an odor coming up through the bathtub. One apartment had to be evacuated Tuesday morning.
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CEDAR RAPIDS WOMAN INJURED IN HOUSE EXPLOSION
Tags: us_IA, public, explosion, injury, natural_gas
Jun 28, 2016 at 9:41 am | Print View
CEDAR RAPIDS " Neighbors recall hearing and feeling a blast that destroyed a Cedar Rapids home Monday and sent a woman to the hospital.
The explosion " which blew the north side off the house at 1371 20th Ave. SW " and ensuing fire took place at 6:35 p.m.
"I heard the explosion and my house kind of wavered a little bit. I thought it was fireworks, just this big boom," said Howard Bentley, who lives on 20th Avenue SW, more than a dozen houses east of the home that exploded. "The back of the house was fine, but the front of the house was gone."
The Cedar Rapids Fire Department responded to a report of an explosion and "heavy fire" Monday evening. The occupant, 64-year-old Diane Barnes, was transported to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics with severe burns.
Public safety spokesman Greg Buelow said two neighbors sprung into action after the explosion and pulled Barnes from the house.
"One shut off the gas at the meter and the other used a dry chemical fire extinguisher to knock down flames and get her out," Buelow said in an email. "If not for their actions, the victim likely would not have been able to get out of the fire that ensued."
The house was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived on the scene. Aid was provided to the occupant and crews were able to put out the fire.
A fire investigator was called to the scene and the fire remains under investigation. Buelow said a natural gas leak is the likely cause of the explosion.
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MFD HAZARDOUS MATERIALS UNIT STOPS CHLORINE LEAK
Tags: us_HI, industrial, release, response, chlorine
Maui firefighters responded to a report of a chlorine leak at a Department of Water Supply facility in Wailuku at 3:04 p.m. on Sunday, June 26, 2016.
At 3:11 p.m., Engine 1 from Wailuku met with a Water Department representative at the Shaft 33 pump station, mauka of Omaomao Street in the Kehalani Mauka area.
Fire officials say the employee said he was responding to an alarm from the facility and confirmed that there was a gas leak in a storage unit that housed chlorine tanks used to treat drinking water.
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HAZMAT CREWS RESPOND TO WORKER INJURED AT CITY PARK
Tags: us_CO, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
The west side of City Park was was put under an emergency notification Monday afternoon after a city of Fort Collins worker complained of being burned by a substance in a bag while working at the park.
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Responders found a black plastic bag containing the substance in a truck behind the building. It was among a load of garbage that was collected from Lee Martinez Farm.
They then gathered a sample of the substance in a vial and tested it with an infrared monitor. Early indications showed a strong acid. They neutralized the substance and sent another sample to a third-party laboratory for additional testing. Results will be available in the next 5-10 days.
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HAZMAT TEAM CALLED OUT TO WHEATFIELD PLANT
Tags: us_NY, industrial, release, response, acids
WHEATFIELD " The Bergholz Volunteer Fire Co. and the Niagara Falls Air Base Hazmat team early Monday afternoon were called to Materion Advanced Materials, 2080 Lockport Road, in response to the activation of 20 gallons of acid at the plant.
Plant Manager Joseph Kwiatkowski said the plant"s own Hazmat team was able to take care of the issue, but outside help was called as a precaution. No injuries were reported.
"We had a chemical reaction in one of our process tanks. We ended up having a release of a plume of smoke," said Kwiatkowski. "We called for backup in case we needed it, but we didn"t. They were there if anything happened, but our own employees handled it."
He said no injuries were reported and the reaction was contained within a tank.
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Kwiatkowski was not able to go into the full details of the proprietary chemicals used at the plant, but called it a "chemical reaction dissolving metals."
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DRONES KEEP GETTING INTO FIREFIGHTERS' WAY
Tags: us_AZ, transportation, discovery, environmental
Drones are great for capturing action and locations you couldn't otherwise film. There are times, though, they should probably stay grounded -- and that includes when they could get in the way of firefighters battling wildfires that rage every year in the American Southwest.
Yet in the past few weeks, people fighting fires in Arizona, Utah and California say drones keep interfering with planes dropping water and chemical retardants and transporting crews to where they're needed, Time magazine reported Monday. A small drone almost collided with a helicopter battling a blaze in Utah, and firefighters in California had to delay takeoff after spotting drones in the area. Crews in Arizona told the Republic newspaper they spotted two drones in their operation's airspace.
So far this year, three drone incidents forced air crews to land, Time reported. Drones have become an annoyance for urban firefighters, too. Last year, fire departments from Montgomery and Coldenham in New York turned their hose on a drone after it had been filming them for about 10 minutes. They followed with a second blast of water a minute later, taking it out of the sky. The owner of that drone wanted the fire company to buy him a new one.
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JOHNSON CITY PRESS: IDENTITY OF CHEMICAL STILL NOT KNOWN
Tags: us_TN, industrial, follow-up, response, unknown_chemical
ELIZABETHTON " It has been a week since a hazardous materials emergency started on the former North American Rayon property, and investigators are still trying to determine the identity of the volatile chemical that had been buried underground inside a concrete vault.
The chemical was so volatile that every time a track hoe or bulldozer would unearth some of it, a small explosion resulted. The chemical burned so completely, there was never a trace left to capture by taking air samples.
Elizabethton Fire Chief Barry Carrier and Carter County Emergency Management Agency director Gary Smith suspect the chemical is carbon disulfide, a chemical used in the manufacture of rayon.
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INTENSE FLAMES RIP THROUGH RESEARCH LABORATORY IN ORANGE
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
ORANGE (CBSLA.com) " An early morning fire burned a research laboratory in the city of Orange Sunday.
Firefighters rushed to the building on N. Batavia Street and W. Barkley Avenue just after 1 a.m.
When they arrive, flames were about 20 feet above the roof. The fire was so intense that firefighters had to be pulled from the building and battled the blaze with long hoses.
It took 60 firefighters from more than four agencies more than two hours to douse the flames. The roof was destroyed and windows were blown up by the fire.
Hazmat also responded to the scene as the lab tests oil and water.
The cause of the fire was not known.
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CHEMICAL LEAK, FIRE PROMPTS EVACUATIONS IN MONT BELVIEU
Tags: us_TX, industrial, release, response, unknown_chemical
MONT BELVIEU, Texas - Dozens of people were evacuated from their homes on Sunday after two chemical mishaps were reported at plants along Highway 146.
A KHOU 11 viewer sent in video of flames and what appeared to be a black chemical shooting out from the ground near Winfree road.
"It looked like someone struck oil in the early 1800"s," said Ken Perry, a witness, who lives three blocks away.
Authorities said there were two separate incidents: The first involved a mix of salt water and hydrocarbon chemicals that leaked from LyondellBasell's pipeline storage plant. The second involved a fire next to the plant at Lone Star NGL.
LyondellBasell issued a statement on Sunday saying there was a pressure build-up in a wellhead at their pipeline storage facility.
The company said all employees were accounted for and no injuries were reported. The evacuation order lasted for six hours on Sunday.
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COUNTRY CLUB WORKER SICKENED BY POOL CHEMICALS
Tags: us_MA, public, release, injury, pool_chemicals
ANDOVER " A 40-year-old woman was taken by ambulance from the Andover Country Club to Lawrence General Hospital Saturday morning after poorly mixed pool chemicals released a harmful asphyxiant into the air.
Deputy Chief Albert DelDotto of the Andover Fire Rescue Department said the unnamed woman, who is a club employee, had trouble breathing and was experiencing respiratory irritation after a pump designed to add cleansing chemicals into the pool apparently malfunctioned, spilling five-to-six gallons of harmful liquid on the pump house floor.
The symptoms are typical when an acidic chemical is incorrectly mixed with sodium hypochlorite, DelDotto said. "You don't mix acids and bases," he said.
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