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SULFURIC ACID S
PILLS AT DEER ISLAND FROM METRO DESK
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ric_acid
UNSTABLE CHEMICAL FOUND AT OFFICES OF PHARMACEUTICAL REGULATOR =C2=B7 TH
EJOURNAL
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: Ireland, public, discovery, response, drugs, pharmaceutical, picric_ac
id, time-sensitive
STRANGE SMELL FORCES EVACUATION OF SOUTH SALT LAKE MOTEL<
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ic, release, response, pepper_spray
STAFF FLEE PETERBOROUGH FACTORY CHEMICAL SPIL
LAGE
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: United_Kingdom, industrial, release, injury, ammonia
AUTHORITIES SAY 5 KILLED I
N EXPLOSION DURING CHEMICAL EXPERIMENT IN SOUTH KOREA
Tags: Republic_of_Korea, indust
rial, explosion, death, unknown_chemical
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PETROCHINA SAYS REFINERY FIRE IN DALIAN PUT OUT
Tags: China, industrial, expl
osion, response, petroleum
(AP) SHANGHAI =E2=80=94 Firefighters fought three h
ours to put out a blaze Monday at a major petrochemical refinery in the nort
heastern Chinese city of Dalian, the second fire in two months at the facili
ty, police and the company said.
State-owned PetroChina, China's biggest oil and gas
producer, said the fire occurred in a diesel tank containing 800 tons of fu
el at its subsidiary Dalian Petrochemical, but any that escaped had been cha
nneled into an emergency storage pool.
Nearly 300 firefighters and 65 fire engines w
ere summoned to battle the blaze, caused by an explosion in a pipeline linki
ng two fuel tanks, police said in a statement. Some firefighters remained to
guard against any further trouble, given the risk of explosion due to nearb
y tanks of aviation fuel, liquefied petroleum gas and other materials, it sa
id.
A f
ire in mid-July at the same refinery forced the company to suspend operation
s of some of its units.
Dalian was the site of China's biggest known oil spill, when a
pipeline explosion put at least 1,500 tons (461,790 gallons) of oil into th
e sea in July 2010.
The city recently saw protests by some 12,000 people demandin
g the removal of a chemical factory making paraxylene. In the face of such a
rare but bold show of public dissatisfaction, the authorities agreed to mov
e the plant out of the downtown area.
The protest was mounted after waves from Tro
pical Storm Muifa last week broke a dike guarding the plant and raised fears
that floodwaters could release toxic chemicals.
Recent oil spills in Bohai Bay, o
ffshore from Dalian, have further raised concern over environmental risks fr
om the region's energy and chemicals industries, with government officials t
hreatening legal action against ConocoPhillips China, which operates wells i
n the affected oil field with another big state energy company, CNOOC.
CNOOC's ref
inery at Daya Bay, in Huizhou, halted operations in several of its productio
n lines after a fire broke out in its aromatics unit on July 11.
PetroChina's state
ments, posted on its website, emphasized that Monday's fire did not cause an
y pollution. Local government officials refused comment and calls to the ref
inery went unanswered.
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UNIDENTIFIED CHEMICAL LI
KELY CAUSED JULY SEWER EXPLOSION IN BURNSVILLE
Tags: us_MN, public, explosion, response, u
nknown_chemical, follow-up
An unidentified chemical is being blamed for a sanitary s
ewer explosion on July 8 in Burnsville.
City officials believe that the explosion, w
hich blew off manhole covers on River Hills Drive West, happened when an exp
losive gas emanating from that chemical ignited in the sewer system.<
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Investigators
are not sure how the chemical entered the sewer system, but believe it like
ly came from within an existing home or business through a sewer drain. They
think the gas from the chemical traveled through the sewer system, into the
basement of a nearby home through a dry sewer trap.
City officials believe the flam
e from a gas water heater or furnace then ignited the gas, which traveled ba
ck through the sanitary sewer system.
Crews have been monitoring gas levels in the
sewer system since the explosion but have not found anything unusual.
As a result
of the investigation, the city is reminding residents about the importance o
f properly disposing of hazardous materials.
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SULFURIC ACID SPILLS AT DEER ISLAND FROM METRO DESK
Tags: us_MA, industrial, release, response, sulfuric_acid
Hazmat cre
ws were cleaning up tonight after 150 to 200 gallons of sulfuric ac
id spilled at a sewage treatment facility on Deer Island, Boston fire offici
als said.
Firefighters received a report of the spilled sulfuric acid, which is us
ed to break down sewage, at the Deer Island Treatment Plant at 7:45 p.m.
, Boston Fire spokesman Steve MacDonald said.
The acid overflowed out of an outdoor
holding tank, with some leaking onto the surrounding pavement, but workers w
ere able to shut off a valve before more of it spilled, MacDonald said.
No one was
injured, he said.
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UNSTABLE CHEMICAL FOUND A
T OFFICES OF PHARMACEUTICAL REGULATOR =C2=B7 THEJOURNAL
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and, public, discovery, response, drugs, pharmaceutical, picric_acid, time-s
ensitive
THE IRISH DEFENCE Forces had to carry out a controlled explosion today a
fter an unstable chemical was found at the offices of the Pharmaceutical Soc
iety of Ireland (PSI) in Dublin this morning.
An Army Bomb Disposal Team was called to the off
ices of the PSI, which regulates pharmacy services in Ireland, on Shrewsbury
Road after the unstable chemical Picric Acid was found this morning.
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STRANGE SMELL FORCES EVACUATION OF SOUTH SALT LAKE M
OTEL
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gs: us_UT, public, release, response, pepper_spray
SOUTH SALT LAKE (ABC 4 News) - S
everal residents of a South Salt Lake motel were evacuated Saturday after th
ey complained of a strange odor and burning sensation in their lungs.
Hazmat crews a
rrived at the Ramada Inn at 2455 S. State Street just before
11 a
.m. Several guests told fire crews they were experiencing trouble b
reathing, and some guests were even vomiting.
Fire investigators turned on high-pow
ered fans to air out the motel, but they were not able to determine the
source of the smell. Fire bosses speculate someone may have sprayed m
ace or pepper spray.
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Staff at Omega Foundry Machinery Ltd, in Stapledon Road, Orton Southgat
e, were forced to flee their building when a chemical, originally thought to
be ammonia, oozed out of a broken pipe at about 11.30am yesterday.
Cambridgeshir
e Fire and Rescue mobilized its specialist hazardous materials (hazmat) crew
s from St Neots as well as two other engines and a heavy rescue vehicle, wit
h about 20 firefighters on the scene.
Two workers, who have not been named, were t
reated at the scene by paramedics for minor inhalation of fumes.
The hazmat team in
itially believed they were dealing with 50 litres of ammonia, but it was lat
er confirmed to be about 10 litres and thought to be triethylamine.
The chemical i
s similar to ammonia and has a strong fishy odour which could be smelled on t
he industrial estate.
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AUTHORITIES SAY 5 KILLED
IN EXPLOSION DURING CHEMICAL EXPERIMENT IN SOUTH KOREA
Tags: Republic_of_Korea, industrial, explosion, death, unknown_che
mical
SE
OUL, South Korea =E2=80=94 Authorities say five people were killed in an exp
losion during an experiment at a chemical company in southeastern South Kore
a.
An o
fficial at Gyeongbuk provincial fire service headquarters said Saturday the e
xplosion took place at TK Chemical company in the city of Gumi. He declined t
o be named because investigators were still trying to determine details of t
he blast.
Hospital and company officials confirmed that five people were killed wh
ile two others were being treated for serious burns.
The company=E2=80=99s Web site s
ays TK Chemical mainly produces synthetic resins like polyester. 