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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 06:31:11 -0400
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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Friday, September 30, 2016 at 6:30:49 AM
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Table of Contents (24 articles)
KALAMAZOO COUNTY TOWNSHIP TO GO WITHOUT COVERAGE FROM HAZARDOUS WASTE CLEANUP TEAM
Tags: us_MI, public, discovery, environmental
MORNING EXPLOSION ROCKS CAMP MINDENMINDEN PRESS-HERALD
Tags: us_LA, industrial, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
BOTETOURT MANUFACTURER CITED, FINED $4,900 FOR FIRE THAT INJURED 2 WORKERS
Tags: us_VA, industrial, follow-up, injury, flammables
MOORHEAD HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS TO ACID SPILL
Tags: us_MO, industrial, release, response, acids, waste
CHINA DRAFTS NEW CHEMICALS SAFETY LAW
Tags: China, public, follow-up, environmental
CHEMICAL REACTION TEMPORARILY CLOSED EASTON RESTAURANT
Tags: us_MA, public, release, response, bleach, chlorine
CHEMICAL SPILLS FROM TANK IN VENTURA
Tags: us_CA, industrial, release, response, unknown_chemical
THREE STUDENTS TREATED FOR MERCURY EXPOSURE AT LABUAN SCHOOL
Tags: Malaysia, laboratory, release, injury, mercury
CLEANUP PLAN FINALIZED FOR VINELAND CHEMICAL SITE
Tags: us_NJ, industrial, follow-up, environmental, ag_chems, pesticides
HAZMAT CALLED FOR CHEMICAL LEAK AT BUSINESS IN EAST HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP
Tags: us_PA, industrial, release, response, flammables
EASTON RESTAURANT EVACUATED OVER CHEMICAL ODOR
Tags: us_MA, public, release, response, unknown_chemical
CARPET-CLEANING CHEMICAL FOUND IN DOLPHINS, BIRDS AND FISH
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, pesticides
ALASKA TRANSPORTATION AGENCY FINED OVER WASTE STORAGE
Tags: us_AL, industrial, follow-up, environmental, waste
U.S. CHEMICAL SAFETY BOARD
Tags: us_WV, industrial, follow-up, response, other_chemical
STUDENTS SUFFERED BURNS, EYE INJURIES AT DONGHUA UNIVERSITY
Tags: China, laboratory, release, injury, potassium_permanganate
ONE OF COUNTY'S NEWER ELECTRIC TRANSIT BUSES CATCHES FIRE; CAUSE BEING INVESTIGATED
Tags: us_MD, transportation, fire, response, batteries
LOOK INSIDE å£23M UNIVERSITY CENTRE REBUILT AFTER HUGE FIRE
Tags: United_Kingdom, laboratory, follow-up, environmental
STRUCTURE FIRE EXPLODES CAUSING MINOR INJURIES TO VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS
Tags: us_AL, public, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
FIREFIGHTER HURT IN MILLION-DOLLAR GARDEN GROVE BLAZE
Tags: us_CA, public, fire, injury, gasoline
A PERFORMANCE ART GROUP SATIRIZED THE FIRE MARSHAL'S ART GALLERY SHUTDOWNS WITH 'THE WORLD'S SAFEST ART SHOW'
Tags: us_TX, public, follow-up, response
SEVERAL SICKENED, BUT NO PUBLIC ALERT AFTER CHEMICAL LEAK IN HILO
Tags: us_HI, industrial, release, response, chlorine
UPDATE: POLICE INVESTIGATE SUSPECTED METH LAB AT PROVIDENCE HILT
Tags: us_RI, public, discovery, response, meth_lab
TANKER TRUCK CRASH PROMPTS HAZMAT RESPONSE IN GRANTS PASS ‰?? KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2
Tags: us_OR, transportation, release, response, liquid_oxygen
MULTIPLE INJURED AFTER DRUG LAB EXPLODES, DEMOLISHES BRONX HOME
Tags: us_NY, public, explosion, death, drugs
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KALAMAZOO COUNTY TOWNSHIP TO GO WITHOUT COVERAGE FROM HAZARDOUS WASTE CLEANUP TEAM
Tags: us_MI, public, discovery, environmental
KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI ‰?? If hazardous waste spills in eastern Kalamazoo County's Climax Township, they're on their own.
The Climax Township Board of Trustees voted to become the first municipality to end a contract providing access to the county's hazardous material response team. An increase in the annual fee from $600 to $1,400 was deemed too expensive for the small township to afford.
Under the county's hazmat agreement, each municipal fire department is charged equally. Climax Township Supervisor Don Schultz said paying the same amount as larger municipalities like the cities of Kalamazoo and Portage isn't fair and puts a greater strain on small townships.
"It's like asking a person on minimum wage to buy a Cadillac," he said.
Members of the intergovernmental agreement are allowed to opt out at any time after giving 30 days notice. As of Jan. 1, 2017, Climax Township will no longer receive service.
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MORNING EXPLOSION ROCKS CAMP MINDENMINDEN PRESS-HERALD
Tags: us_LA, industrial, explosion, response, unknown_chemical
CAMP MINDEN ‰?? A Louisiana State Police HAZMAT team is on scene at Camp Minden investigating a reported explosion where Explo Systems Inc., was previously accused of improperly storing nearly 16 million pounds of M6 propellant.
Webster Parish Sheriff Gary Sexton says there have been conflicting reports on what exactly happened, but he cannot confirm that it was a bunker housing the M6. He says he feels it is likely the case.
‰??More than likely it was, but we don‰??t know if it was that or another company,‰?? he said. ‰??If it was a bunker, it certainly did its job. Several witnesses actually saw the explosion and it just went straight up with a plume afterwards. We knew it could happen and felt like it would happen before the disposal process was over with, but because of the planning that went into it, it just shows how good planning can be. We‰??re fortunate nobody was hurt and that‰??s what it was about.‰??
He says the report came in around 4:55 a.m., Thursday, and one witness, Rita Ware, described it as a ‰??big boom and it shook the whole house,‰?? she said.
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BOTETOURT MANUFACTURER CITED, FINED $4,900 FOR FIRE THAT INJURED 2 WORKERS
Tags: us_VA, industrial, follow-up, injury, flammables
Arkay Packaging in Botetourt County has been fined nearly $5,000 by state regulators for workplace safety violations involving a fire that seriously injured two employees.
An investigation by the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry led to citations for improper storage of a flammable liquid and a lack of training for a worker who handled the chemical.
The May 10 fire broke out when the liquid, used to clean presses, spilled and ignited when it came into contact with hot machinery.
A labor department official declined to elaborate on documents, released this week in response to an open records request, that indicated Arkay was contesting at least part of the state agency‰??s findings, which included four citations and a fine of $9,800.
But according to Arkay spokeswoman Ruth Rugoff, the packaging manufacturer has accepted responsibility for two of the citations and agreed to pay a penalty of $4,900, without admitting any liability.
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MOORHEAD HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS TO ACID SPILL
Tags: us_MO, industrial, release, response, acids, waste
Several agencies from Otter Tail County, Moorhead and Fergus Falls contained an acid spill at the Otter Tail County Recycling Center Wednesday.
Workers at the plant were unloading a plastics roll off container that morning onto the center‰??s tipping floor for sorting, said Fergus Falls Fire Department Chief Mark Hovland.
During the unloading, a container with about a gallon of acid inside rolled out of the container and broke open onto the floor. The substance started smoldering and the back of the building filled with a vapor cloud, Hovland said.
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CHINA DRAFTS NEW CHEMICALS SAFETY LAW
Tags: China, public, follow-up, environmental
China's State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) is drafting a new chemicals safety law, following the Tianjin explosion a year ago.
Li Heng of law firm Mayer Brown's Beijing office, told Chemical Watch the law is expected to clarify various aspects of chemicals management, including definitions and the responsibilities of different ministries, and to cover both new and existing hazardous substances.
Mark Thompson, an attorney in law firm Keller and Heckman's Shanghai office, said the working title used by the National People‰??s Congress (NCP) is the Toxic and Hazardous Chemical Substances Control Law. However, this could change as the draft is not yet available publicly.
He expects the new law will replace Decree 591 on the Regulation on the Safe Management of Hazardous Chemicals, but it is possible the Decree may be recast as an implementing regulation instead.
SAWS has established a drafting group to put together a preliminary version. It intends to complete the first formal draft by the end of the year.
It will then consult other ministries responsible for regulating chemicals. In this regard, Mr Thompson expects that, even if SAWS takes the lead on drafting, the environment ministry (MEP) is likely to be actively involved in the process.
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CHEMICAL REACTION TEMPORARILY CLOSED EASTON RESTAURANT
Tags: us_MA, public, release, response, bleach, chlorine
EASTON ‰?? Two chemicals that shouldn't have been mixed together caused a reaction and forced the temporary closure of a restaurant Wednesday night.
The Easton Fire Department responded to the Ninety-Nine Restaurant and Pub, on Belmont Street, about 6:30 p.m., after an employee mixed two chemicals, which caused a reaction and got into the dining room through the ventilation system.
"The employee mixed two cleaning products ‰?? bleach and Lime Off ‰?? that he intended to put into the dishwasher machine, but they aren't supposed to be mixed together," Fire Chief Kevin Partridge told The Enterprise Thursday. "It created a reaction that gave off a strong bleach or chlorine odor."
Low concentrations of the chemical got into the ventilation system and made its way into the dining room, which several customers began to smell, Partridge said.
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CHEMICAL SPILLS FROM TANK IN VENTURA
Tags: us_CA, industrial, release, response, unknown_chemical
About 400 gallons of a chemical leaked from a tank at a water-conditioning facility Wednesday in Ventura, officials said.
The spill was reported about 12:50 p.m. in the 10900 block of Telephone Road, according to fire officials.
The chemical was housed in a 1,000-gallon tank at the Saticoy Water Conditioning Facility near Telephone and Wells roads, according to fire officials. The chemical was identified as phosphate, which is commonly used to prevent corrosion in water pipes, and it does not pose a health concern to the community, the city said.
A staff member from Ventura Water noticed about 9:30 a.m. during a routine inspection that there was a problem at the tank's outlet pipe, the city said. The employee immediately started the incident response procedure, the city said.
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THREE STUDENTS TREATED FOR MERCURY EXPOSURE AT LABUAN SCHOOL
Tags: Malaysia, laboratory, release, injury, mercury
LABUAN: A thermometer fell to the ground and shattered at the laboratory of a school here today, exposing three students to the mercury, according to the Labuan Fire and Rescue Department.
Its director, Zainal Madasin, said the students were sent to the Labuan Nucleus Hospital for treatment following the accident at about 7.30am at Sekolah Menengah Sains Labuan.
The Form One students of the school were carrying out an experiment when the accident happened, he told Bernama.
He said the department rushed a Hazmat (hazardous materials) team to the school upon being notified of the accident.
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CLEANUP PLAN FINALIZED FOR VINELAND CHEMICAL SITE
Tags: us_NJ, industrial, follow-up, environmental, ag_chems, pesticides
VINELAND - A long-term cleanup of the former Vineland Chemical Company will now see $15 million of additional work to address a re-contaminated watershed area, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday.
Since 1992, the EPA has been at work ridding the site of the former North Mill Road pesticides manufacturer of arsenic-contaminated groundwater, soil and sediment.
But areas in the Blackwater Branch floodplain recently have been discovered to have been re-contaminated.
‰??The Vineland Chemical Company manufactured arsenic-based herbicides at this property in Vineland and left a toxic legacy,‰?? EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck said in a news release. ‰??We have come a long way in cleaning up this site, which was seriously contaminated with toxic arsenic that polluted the area.‰??
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HAZMAT CALLED FOR CHEMICAL LEAK AT BUSINESS IN EAST HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP
Tags: us_PA, industrial, release, response, flammables
EAST HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP, Pa. - A chemical spill at a business in East Huntingdon Township prompted evacuations in the area Tuesday.
Hazmat crews were called to DNP Imagingcomm America Corporation on Technology Drive shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday.
According to the company, there was a spill of flammable liquids from the overflow of an above ground storage tank. Everyone was evacuated as a precaution. A business next door was also evacuated, and Channel 11 News learned students at Westmoreland Community College's technical school were told to leave.
A decontamination area was set up by hazmat crews, but the company said no one was hurt and no property was damaged.
The company said all the flammable liquid was contained inside a process area. They were working with authorities on cleanup and removal.
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EASTON RESTAURANT EVACUATED OVER CHEMICAL ODOR
Tags: us_MA, public, release, response, unknown_chemical
EASTON - The Ninety-Nine restaurant, at 99 Belmont St., was evacuated during the dinner hour Tuesday night due to a chemical odor.
The evacuation began after 6:30 p.m., as complaints over a chemical odor permeating the premises were lodged. Easton Fire quickly responded and the building was cleared out and then closed for business for the evening.
The source of the odor was said to be two chemicals that were mixed together to produce the noxious fumes. It is unclear which chemicals were involved and whether the mixture was deliberate or in error. A three-member team from the Norfolk County Hazardous Materials squad was summoned to the scene to assist in the clean-up.
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CARPET-CLEANING CHEMICAL FOUND IN DOLPHINS, BIRDS AND FISH
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, pesticides
(CNN)A chemical formerly used in pesticides and most recently in carpet-cleaning products has been ingested by wildlife throughout North America, according to a study appearing today in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
The blood of dolphins, fish and birds all tested positive for perfluorophosphinic acids, one class of a common industrial chemical group used for a variety of purposes, including stain-resistant carpet sprays and nonstick cooking surfaces since the 1950s.
Perfluorophosphinic acids in particular were used in several pesticide formulations in North America and some countries in Europe since the 1970s, according to Zhanyun Wang, a scientist at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering in Zurich. Wang has done extensive research on these chemicals but was not involved in the current study.
"There is no new information to show if they are increasingly or decreasingly used," Wang said, adding that any information about current use of these chemicals is sketchy at best. "More information from the manufacturers is needed."
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ALASKA TRANSPORTATION AGENCY FINED OVER WASTE STORAGE
Tags: us_AL, industrial, follow-up, environmental, waste
JUNEAU, Alaska The state transportation department has been fined $118,100 for its handling of hazardous waste at a maintenance facility in Juneau.
The penalty was levied by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The federal agency alleged that the transportation department failed to properly identify and label hazardous waste and stored more than 4,000 pounds of hazardous waste without a required storage permit.
EPA says the waste included corrosive liquids, solvents and petroleum products.
Transportation department spokesman Jeremy Woodrow says department employees did not realize there was a compliance issue until it was pointed out during an inspection. He says the department took immediate action to remedy the situation.
Woodrow says there was no environmental damage.
Including this case, EPA says the transportation department has paid about $500,000 in EPA penalties since 2013.
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U.S. CHEMICAL SAFETY BOARD
Tags: us_WV, industrial, follow-up, response, other_chemical
September 28, 2016, Charleston, WV, -- The CSB‰??s final report into the massive release of chemicals into this valley‰??s primary source of drinking water in 2014 concludes Freedom Industries failed to inspect or repair corroding tanks, and that as hazardous chemicals flowed into the Elk River, the water company and local authorities were unable to effectively communicate the looming risks to hundreds of thousands of affected residents, who were left without clean water for drinking, cooking and bathing.
The CSB's final report and recommendations will be discussed at a public meeting tonight in Charleston, WV, at 6:00 pm EDT at the Four Points by Sheraton. To watch a live webcast of the public meeting please visit this link at the time of the meeting: http://livestream.com/accounts/4761603/uschem">http://livestream.com/accounts/4761603/uschem
On the morning of January 9, 2014, an estimated 10,000 gallons of Crude Methylcyclohexanemethanol (MCHM) mixed with propylene glycol phenyl ethers (PPH Stripped) were released into the Elk River when a 46,000-gallon storage tank located at the Freedom Industries site in Charleston, WV, failed. As the chemical entered the river it flowed towards West Virginia American Water‰??s intake, which was located approximately 1.5 miles downstream from the Freedom site.
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STUDENTS SUFFERED BURNS, EYE INJURIES AT DONGHUA UNIVERSITY
Tags: China, laboratory, release, injury, potassium_permanganate
Three Donghua University graduate students in the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, & Bioengineering were injured in an incident involving potassium permanganate, according to the university and local news reports.
The university says in a Sept. 23 post on the microblogging site Weibo that the incident is still being investigated. Two of the students were taken to the hospital, where they were treated for facial burns and eye injuries, the Sept. 23 post says. One of the two hospitalized students required eye surgery and further treatment. The third injured student received abrasions and was not hospitalized, the University posted on Sept. 21.
The Sigma-Aldrich Safety Data Sheet for potassium permanganate notes that it is an oxidizer that can cause skin corrosion and serious eye damage. It is also toxic if consumed orally by humans.
I‰??ve e-mailed the dean of the Donghua School Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, & Bioengineering to find out more about the incident, but so far he has not responded to me. If anyone who reads Chinese would like to go through the 44 pages of comments of Weibo and let me know if there‰??s any more information there, I‰??d welcome it!
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ONE OF COUNTY'S NEWER ELECTRIC TRANSIT BUSES CATCHES FIRE; CAUSE BEING INVESTIGATED
Tags: us_MD, transportation, fire, response, batteries
The cause of a bus fire that closed U.S. 40 near the exit for U.S. 15 for several hours remained under investigation Tuesday afternoon, according to a county TransIT spokeswoman.
The bus, one of the TransIT system‰??s newer, fully electric models, was still under warranty and repairs were expected to be covered at no cost to the county, said Kendall Klosky Tiffany, a TransIT spokeswoman.
‰??The bus manufacturer has a team already in route ‰?? they will be on site later (Tuesday) and will spend tomorrow determining exactly what happened,‰?? Tiffany wrote in an email response to The Frederick News-Post‰??s questions.
The fire was first reported just after 9 a.m. on westbound U.S. 40 just east of U.S. 15, according to the state Transportation Department‰??s Coordinated Highways Action Response Team website. All lanes were reopened as of 11:23 a.m., said Michele Bowman, a spokeswoman for the Frederick Police Department.
The bus was not carrying any passengers at the time and the driver recognized the problem and got out of the vehicle safely, said Battalion Chief Kevin Fox, a spokesman for the Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services.
‰??It took about an hour to extinguish. Some of the concerns they had with it was it was an electrical bus and it had some lithium ion batteries so we had a [hazardous materials] team out making sure there wasn‰??t a problem with the runoff from our extinguishing efforts,‰?? Fox said.
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LOOK INSIDE å£23M UNIVERSITY CENTRE REBUILT AFTER HUGE FIRE
Tags: United_Kingdom, laboratory, follow-up, environmental
The å£23m University of Nottingham building that burned down during construction is finally open ‰?? and could now become a centre for "life-changing" research.
The GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry, located on the university's Innovation Park in Triumph Road, will be used by PhD students and top researchers to help find therapies for asthma.
Built using a timber frame and with solar panels and grass turf on the roof, it is said to be the world's first chemistry lab to make no overall contribution to greenhouse gases or the acceleration of climate change.
Professor Peter Licence, director of the centre, said: "This is a unique building that is huge for Nottingham and our university.
"It's a project that defines a new way of approaching science and the environment that sits around it ‰?? we're teaching our scientists to work in a way that's more sensitive to their carbon footprint.
"This building has to inspire people to want to do things differently ‰?? personally, I think it's the most amazing building I've ever seen.
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STRUCTURE FIRE EXPLODES CAUSING MINOR INJURIES TO VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS
Tags: us_AL, public, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
At least three volunteer firefighters had to have medical treatment after a structure fire exploded in Colbert County on Monday night.
Officials say a little after six they arrived at a property on Pineywoods Road to find one building completely in flames.w
LaGrange Volunteer Fire Department.
"Once we started spraying water at the back left corner there we had some type of explosion. Unsure what it was. A couple of officers got hurt but they were treated here on scene," said LaGrange Volunteer Fire Chief, Richard Nabors.
As a safety precaution a hazmat team came to the scene and decontaminated all of the firefighters because they don't know what chemicals were possibly on site.
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FIREFIGHTER HURT IN MILLION-DOLLAR GARDEN GROVE BLAZE
Tags: us_CA, public, fire, injury, gasoline
A three-alarm fire at a vehicle repair and maintenance business in Garden Grove did more than $1 million in damage, prompted a hazardous materials response for leaking fuel and sent a firefighter to a hospital for treatment of heat exhaustion.
The blaze was reported Monday afternoon at Pacific R.V. Body & Paint, which does maintenance and repair work on motor homes, recreational vehicles and the like, according to Capt. Thanh Nguyen of the Garden Grove Fire Department.
About 50 firefighters were dispatched to the business at 13731 Harbor Blvd., near Westminster Avenue, including an Orange County Fire Authority hazmat team summoned because of leaking gasoline from a ruptured tank, Nguyen said.
Arriving firefighters, who dealt with temperatures over 100 degrees, encountered two burning motor homes and the heat from the fire caused the flames to spread to two additional motor homes, according to Nguyen.
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A PERFORMANCE ART GROUP SATIRIZED THE FIRE MARSHAL'S ART GALLERY SHUTDOWNS WITH 'THE WORLD'S SAFEST ART SHOW'
Tags: us_TX, public, follow-up, response
Lately the fire marshal seems to have eased up a bit on arts spaces. The disbanding of art events this summer began with Dean Terry‰??s art-music-performance event Acoustic Nerves in May, which was shut down even though the event was funded with city money. It touched off a wave of crackdowns citywide that reached a boiling point in August at a community meeting at the Dallas Public Library.
‰??It was traumatic; it took us months to put together," says Terry of Acoustic Nerves. On Friday, Terry put together a second show with his performance group Therefore, which was intended to respond to that debacle. The World's Safest Art Show at Beefhaus in Exposition Park was inspired by the crackdowns and the concerns voiced by the fire marshal and representatives of his office at that public meeting in August.
The impromptu shutdowns, while in the name of safety, according to the fire marshal‰??s office, seemed to be directly targeting arts events. Reps from his office admitted to searching Facebook and online arts bulletins looking for events that they could investigate. And the shutdowns threatened artists‰?? livelihoods ‰?? in many cases their spaces were closed for days, weeks or even months while they worked to become compliant, which often required large, costly fixes.
There aren't reports of rampant shutdowns anymore, and many of the art spaces that were in a headlock with city offices over zoning and certificates of occupancy are quietly finding resolution within those offices. But there hasn‰??t been an across-the-board solution for the deficits in zoning laws that make it impossible for many of these art spaces to operate as they see fit and to still be in compliance with their certificates of occupancy issued by the city, which allows them to operate.
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SEVERAL SICKENED, BUT NO PUBLIC ALERT AFTER CHEMICAL LEAK IN HILO
Tags: us_HI, industrial, release, response, chlorine
A chemical leak at a facility in Hilo is raising questions about public safety.
A Hilo resident contacted Action Line, wanting to know why the neighborhood around BEI Hawaii‰??s facility was not alerted.
The resident told us the smell from the facility was so bad he couldn‰??t breathe. He also says plants in his yard and his neighbors‰?? yards turned brown from the odor.
Two workers and a firefighter had to be treated.
According to the Hawaii Fire Department, BEI‰??s monitoring system alerted employees of a chlorine gas leak at around 7 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 22. Readings at that time showed up to 2 parts per million.
‰??What is considered a dangerous level where you would notify the public?‰?? KHON2 asked Jonathan Sullivan, BEI regulatory compliance officer.
‰??If it‰??s going over 2 parts per million,‰?? he replied.
Less than an hour later, BEI called the fire department. Fire officials say by the time crews arrived, employees were being evacuated.
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UPDATE: POLICE INVESTIGATE SUSPECTED METH LAB AT PROVIDENCE HILT
Tags: us_RI, public, discovery, response, meth_lab
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Providence Hilton Garden Inn was evacuated Tuesday evening after a security guard told hotel management to call police on four men, believed to be making meth in their hotel room.
Authorities said there were toxic fumes oozing from under the door of room 323 into the hallway, similar to that of a sauna. A security guard went to the room to investigate and had the door slammed in his face by the four men.
"Hazmat here, there must be about six ladder trucks, a lot of police cars," said witness Ken Sabagh as he stood next to the active scene.
According to Public Safety Commissioner, Steven Pare, officers, and the DEA are now investigating a possible meth lab on the 3rd floor.
When fire officials first went inside the room, toxic gas sensors went off and they found a chemical suit on the ground. Windows were broken for ventilation, and eventually the entire hotel was evacuated.
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TANKER TRUCK CRASH PROMPTS HAZMAT RESPONSE IN GRANTS PASS ‰?? KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2
Tags: us_OR, transportation, release, response, liquid_oxygen
Grants Pass, Ore. ‰?? Emergency crews responded Tuesday afternoon to a report of a tanker truck that rolled over near Applebee‰??s restaurant on Highway 199 in Grants Pass.
According to ODOT, the tanker truck was said to be hauling liquid oxygen. Hazmat crews were dispatched to the location after it was reported to be leaking.
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MULTIPLE INJURED AFTER DRUG LAB EXPLODES, DEMOLISHES BRONX HOME
Tags: us_NY, public, explosion, death, drugs
The Bronx explosion pic.twitter.com/afffObJhVb ‰?? Gerardo Toyloy (**At_Symbol_Here**gtoyloy) September 27, 2016 Several people were injured ‰?? including at least one firefighter ‰?? when a drug lab inside a Bronx house exploded early Tuesday, officials and sources said. Firefighters responded to what they thought was a report of a gas leak at 300 W. 234th Street near the corner of Tibbett Avenue in Kingsbridge around 6:20 a.m. But when they entered the home, they found what appeared to be a homemade drug laboratory and immediately called police. The home then exploded around 7:30 a.m. as cops and firefighters were on scene. Several people were injured. The patients were taken to local hospitals. The FDNY did not immediately have information on their conditions. A neighbor described the moments after the blast. ‰??It was a big explosion, big explosion,‰?? Jay Soto, 57, told The Post. ‰??Everyone came out and asked, ‰??What was that?‰?? I could see that it was serious. There are many ambulan!
ces and firetrucks. I saw black smoke.‰?? The incident is still under investigation. Explosion near 234th and Irwin Ave Bronx NYC. **At_Symbol_Here**NBCNewYork pic.twitter.com/qjqOqkDwN3 ‰?? Dylan Ryder (**At_Symbol_Here**DylanMRyder) September 27, 2016
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