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HYDERABAD: Eruption of a
fire spark in one of Dr Reddy's Laboratories unit gave jitters to its
employees today. The spark in one of the units, located at Bachupally,
was claimed to be outcome of a chemical reaction. But there are no
casualties or injuries, according to the company
officials.
As a precautionary measure,
the company also called a fire engine to avoid untoward incidents.
Recently, there was a fire in one of the DRL's units at Bollarum wherein
a chemist and a contract worker died due to a gas leak at the US Food
and Drug Administration-approved plant that produces active
pharmaceutical ingredients. A threemember committee, comprising two
officials from the Directorate of Factories and one pharma expert, are
probing into the gas leak incident at Dr Reddy's Laboratories production
unit.
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HYDERABAD: A major fire gutted a chemical laboratory
in the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) at Habsiguda today
evening.
Initial inquiry by the
police and fire services officials suggested that the fire might have
occurred due to electric short circuit. However, none was injured in the
mishap.
The fire broke out in the
Discovery Laboratory in a ground-plus-two building on the IICT campus
where a huge quantity of solvents used in experiments was
stored.
The fire control room
received a call at 4.53 p.m and a fire tender from Moula Ali, which is
stationed within the IICT campus, was rushed to the
spot.
According to sources, a
couple of scientists working in the laboratory ran out after the fire
started.
With solvents catching fire,
the fire services personnel could not use water to douse the flames.
They had to rely on foam. As the fire could not be controlled, more fire
tenders, a multi-purpose tender and a dry chemical powder tender had to
be rushed to the spot.
"The fire
in the lab was so intense that the fire services department had to press
five fire tenders into service. It took about two hours to put out the
fire," Nacharam police inspector T Manohar Reddy said.
The lab that caught fire was on the first floor of one
of the blocks in the IICT. Luckily the blaze did not spread to other
floors. The extent of property loss is yet to be ascertained, said
police.
According to reports,
solvents like methanol, ethanol and acetene were stored in drums in the
lab. "The solvents are highly inflammable and they caught fire within
minutes," a fire services officer said adding that the fire might have
started from an electric switch in the laboratory.
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An
explosion rocked Duratech Systems, 12546 Beech Daly Road, at 9:15
a.m.
Redford Township Officials
released a statement minutes ago that indicated the explosion occurred
as workers were cleaning out storage tanks at the facility. There were
no apparent injuries but two DuraTech employees were taken to a local
medical clinic as a precautionary measure.
=93We had
numerous calls,=94 said Redford Township Supervisor Tracey Schultz
Kobylarz, including one that said the blast waves were felt as far away
as Five Mile and Inkster.
Officials do not believe air quality has been
compromised but they have called in the Department of Environmental
Quality to assess the situation. All local roads remain
open.
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Attempted theft of ammonia gas perhaps by old-school
methamphetamine cookers appears to be the cause of a leak in a cold
storage plant in downtown Kent this morning.
Investigators found that someone had taken the cap off an
outside valve that was no longer used.
Kent Fire
Department responded to a 6:45 a.m. report of a strong chemical smell in
the 300 block of Railroad Ave. N. at Washington Cold Storage. Ammonia is
used in the plant=92s refrigeration process and is considered
toxic.
Firefighters quickly cordoned off an area surrounding
the business and Kent Police closed West James Street in both directions
in order to ensure that no one was exposed to the toxic gas. The gas
leak also affected the operations of Mill Creek Middle School and the
Regional Justice Center.
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CORPUS CHRISTI =97 For
dispatchers Monday at the Corpus Christi police station, an emergency
occurred in their own office.
Dispatch center staff were evacuated for nearly two
hours from the fourth floor of the building in the 300 block of John
Sartain Street about 5 p.m. after its fire alarm system was triggered,
spraying a chemical dispersant, said police spokesman Tony
Acevedo.
=93It was some kind of false alarm,=94 Acevedo said.
=93The fire department came and checked it out and no injuries were
reported.=94
Staff were moved to the department=92s Emergency
Operations Center at the Frost Bank Building, Acevedo
said.
The building=92s Halon alarm system is designed to
extinguish a fire without the use of water and not damage electronics,
fire officials said.
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Residents
were today allowed to return to their homes almost 20 hours after they
were evacuated following a chemical spill.
Six
houses were evacuated after the spillage on an industrial estate in
Ayrshire around midday.
The alarm
was raised following reports of a chemical release at Mahle Engine
Systems UK Ltd.
She said: =93A neighbour knocked on the door and said
to keep the windows closed as there had been an ammonia
leak.
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WE ARE WRITING to report on an accident that occurred
in the chemistry department at Northwestern University on Dec. 3, 2010.
Unfortunately, one of our advisees was seriously injured. The accident=97a
reaction mixture detonation=97occurred during an attempt to synthesize
2-(tert-butylsulfonyl)iodosylbenzene, a partially soluble form of
iodosylbenzene that is particularly convenient for use as an oxygen
source in studies of catalytic chemical oxidations, such as olefin to
epoxide reactions. The synthesis had been performed about a dozen times
previously at Northwestern without incident.
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VERNON
TWP. =97 Clean-up of a derailed train near Pittsburg and Reed roads
continued over the weekend after a Canadian National Railway car
carrying hydrochloric acid was punctured Thursday evening, spilling the
hazardous chemical.
The
tracks were =93all cleared=94 Sunday around 8 p.m., Durand Fire Chief
Richard Rinker said this morning.
=93The
cause (for the derailment) is still under investigation,=94 Canadian
National Railway Public Affairs Director Patrick Waldron
said.
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Fire
crews have been called to a engineering works in East Ayrshire following
a chemical leak.
Residents were evacuated from a number of homes in
Kilmarnock as a precaution following the suspected ammonia leak at the
Mahle plant in New Street.
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HYDERABAD: A major blaze swept through a laboratory in the
prestigious Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) gutting
stocks of stored solvents and laboratory re-agents, on Monday evening.
There was no loss of life.
The chemical blaze, reported to the fire control at
4.53 p.m., rendered almost half of the Discovery Laboratory useless.
Authorities did not hazard a guess on the cause of fire and extent of
damage saying they were yet to receive details from IICT
officials.
Four fire control vehicles, including a dry chemical
power tender and a multi-purpose tender, dashed from different parts of
the city to the IICT, located near Habsiguda on eastern side of
Hyderabad abutting Osmania University. More than a dozen firemen battled
the blaze for over an hour to control it.
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New Delhi, Jan 10 (IBNS) Four children sustained
serious burn injuries when the fire they lighted to keep themselves warm
caught a chemical drum causing an explosion in south-east Delhi early on
Monday, police said.
They were taken to hospital with critically damaged
limbs.
The accident took place outside a printing press where
the children were burning waste materials to beat the freeazing
cold.
Delhi has been experiencing a bitter cold as mercury
dipped to nearly 4 degree Celsius.
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After
spending hours in the Compton area Monday, Page County crews have almost
finished cleaning up 750 gallons of diesel fuel that spilled after a
truck hit a guardrail.
State police say the driver, David Grimsley of
Winchester, was heading southbound on Route 340.
They say
Grimsley was crossing the bridge over Compton Creek when he lost control
as he poured a cup of coffee. He hit the guardrails on both sides of the
road.
Joe Taylor, a hazardous materials officer with the
Virginia Department of Emergency Management, says, anytime a combustible
or flammable material gets on the ground, their main concern is the
environment.
"Any kind of chemical getting into the environment or
waterways that way, potentially harming any fish or wildlife and
certainly the potential for harm of getting into the drinking water,"
says Taylor.
He says this is an unusual situation, since the truck
crashed and began leaking on the bridge with a dry Compton Creek below
it.
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EAST WINDSOR =97 A township cop and Capital Health
emergency medical technician were sickened and hospitalized Monday
morning after being exposed to hallucinogenic PCP, a potent drug known
on the streets =93animal tranquilizer,=94 =93embalming fluid,=94 and
=93angel dust,=94 cops said.
The incident began about 10:30 a.m. when a township
cop escorted a man out of the East Windsor Municipal Court after the man
reported he felt ill from consuming a substance suspected to be a
PCP-laced cigarette, cops said.
The cop located the drugs in
the man=92s possession, and then the cop started to experience
lightheadedness, according to township police, who didn=92t identify the
cop or suspected PCP man by name.
Not long afterward, the
unnamed Capital Health EMT experienced lightheadedness while treating
the suspected PCP man in an ambulance parked in front of township police
headquarters, cops said.
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MIAMI
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (WSVN) -- HazMat crews arrived at a South Florida
airport Sunday to contain a hazardous chemical.
The
incident occurred Sunday morning in the customs area of Miami
International Airport. Police said a passenger had Mercury in their
luggage, and it spilled.
Haz-mat crews were called to the scene to contain the
chemical.
Officials said operations at customs were not
affected.
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WINTER
PARK, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Aloma Avenue was closed Monday evening for
several hours as a hazmat team investigated a suspicious device which
was left just outside the front doors of a Walgreen's located near N.
Palmetto Avenue. A bomb squad with the Orange County Sheriff's Office
was also called to the scene to X-ray the device in
question.
Authorities were first contacted around 5:30 p.m. and
it was later determined through the use of bomb-detecting equipment and
a K-9 that the device was an explosive and required detonation. Shortly
after 9 p.m., the Walgreen's store, the pharmacy parking lot and nearby
business were evacuated and the device was removed and
destroyed.
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ARTIMIS reports the accident
occurred at 10:10 a.m. More than 2,000 gallons of fuel spilled from the
tanker. Dozens of firefighters and hazardous materials units are on the
scene.
Traffic is being diverted off at Ohio 129.
The
overturned truck is blocking all southbound lanes and about 2,000
gallons of spilled fuel are being flushed by firefighters and two hazmat
crews.
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ST. LOUIS - At the height of the methamphetamine
epidemic, several states turned to a new weapon to disrupt the drug
trade: electronic systems that could track sales of the cold medicine
used to make meth.
Tracking
sales by computer allowed pharmacies to check instantly whether a buyer
had already purchased the legal limit of pseudoephedrine =97 a step that
was supposed to make it harder to obtain raw ingredients for
meth.
But an Associated Press
analysis of federal data reveals that the practice has not only failed
to curb the meth trade, which is growing again after a brief decline. It
also created a vast and highly lucrative market for profiteers to buy
over-the-counter pills and sell them to meth producers at a huge
markup.
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