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us_mi: Chemical
odor prompts precautionary evacuation of Norton Shores
manufacturer
NORTON SHORES =97 An
unpleasant odor coming from a chemical shipment stored inside a Norton
Shores manufacturing building prompted the evacuation of nearby
businesses early Wednesday.
Norton
Shores Deputy Fire Chief Robert Gagnon said fire officials and the
Muskegon County Hazardous Material Response Team were called to the
scene around 9 a.m. after the building owners reported a sulfur-like
smell coming from an 8,000 pound shipment of calcium silicon
barium.
=93The owners of the building smelled a strong odor in
the building from containers they unloaded. The company officials talked
to the supplier and found out the stuff was not a hazard and they moved
the chemical out of the building as a precaution,=94 Gagnon said. =93There
was no spill. It was just an odor emitting from the product that caused
the concern.=94
us_mn: Chemical leak closed industrial park in Elk
River
A minor chemical leak caused
Industrial Circle in Elk River to close at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 6
and reopen the following morning at 5:30.
Elk River
Fire Chief T. John Cunningham said the original chemical leak call came
in to the department at approximately 3:30 p.m. from a delivery person,
who noticed the odor of a leak while dropping off a cylinder at Gradient
Technology located at 11080 Industrial Circle.
The
shipping company that called in the leak had delivered a shipment of
eight cylinders to the business, he said. At the time it was unknown how
many cylinders were leaking, however it was determined seven of those,
which were each filled with six different chemicals, were
leaking.
A metro regional chemical assistance team was called
in to meter the area, Cunningham said, and the leaks were determined to
not be dangerous to the general public.
07 APR 10
us_nh:
N.H. meth lab explodes during raid
A man
arrested after a raid and explosion at a meth lab was wearing rubber
gloves and carrying a laundry basket of chemicals when officers entered
the building Tuesday
The man, identified as Jeremy Clough, 31, lived at the
apartment building and was arrested on drug production and sales
charges, as was his live-in girlfriend, 33-year-old Rebecca Fields,
Tilton Police Chief Robert Cormier said.
The fire
errupted after police requested a lockdown at nearby Franklin High
School and entered the apartment building around 10 a.m. About 20 people
were evacuated from an apartment building next door as a
precaution.
When police walked in, Clough "was just starting to
cook," Cormier said. One meth lab was burned, but another found in a
storage room behind the apartment was not damaged, he
said.
The cause of the combustion wasn't immediately clear,
Cormier said, but the chemicals used to "cook" methamphetamine are
volatile if jostled or certain combinations come
together.
us_tx: Chemical Cleaners Combust in East
Austin
A cautionary tale as Central Texas warms up and pools
open: on Friday, April 2nd, the Austin Fire Department's HAZMAT team was
sent out to an East Austin neighborhood. A garbage collection truck had
noticed smoke emanating from a trash heap and called it in. Upon
investigating the cause, it seems the unit arrived just in time to avert
a potential chemical fire from breaking out.
Lt. Randy
Elmore, with AFD's HAZMAT Unit, told KVUE News, "What we found was two
gallons of muriatic acid and one gallon of sulfuric acid." Both are
commonly used chemicals in cleaning pools. When disposed of improperly
and/or allowed to mix, the resulting reaction -- depending on proximity
and time of day -- can cause serious personal harm and property
damage.
Pool cleaning chemicals (and other hazardous waste
items) should be disposed of at Austin's Hazardous Waste facility, open
every Tuesday and Wednesday from noon till 6 p.m., and the first
Saturday of each month from 7 a.m. till noon.
