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Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8 :40:34 AM

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Table of C ontents (11 articles)

DECATUR POLICE CHARGE 5 IN METH BUST
Tags: us_AL, public, discover y, response, meth_lab

FIRE AT OIL TANK STORAGE SITE IN BEAUREGARD PARISH
Tags: us_LA, public , fire, response, petroleum

MAJOR SPILL IN AURELIUS, 1.5 MILE AREA EVACUATED
Tags: us_NY, tran sportation, release, environmental, petroleum

UPDATE: SPILL PROMPTS LADUE BUSINESS E VACUATIONS
Ta gs: us_MO, public, release, response, sodium_cyanide

POLICE: TEENS EXPLODE CHE MICAL BOMBS IN NEIGHBORHOOD
Tags: us_NM, public, explosion, response, bomb

HIGHWAY 38 CLOS ED DUE TO FUEL SPILL
Tags: us_CA, transportation, release, environmental, petroleum

CARBON M ONOXIDE FORCES EVAC OF SCHOOL
Tags: Canada, education, release, response, carbon_mono xide

EP A FINES SOUTH PORTLAND COMPANY FOR IMPROPER CHEMICAL STORAGE
Tags: us_ME, industrial, discovery, environmental, wastes, follow-up

MAN BURNT IN JHB CHEMICAL FIRE
Tags: South_Afric a, industrial, fire, injury, unknown_chemical

TWO DEAD, FOUR INJURED IN TUZLA FACTO RY FIRE IN ISTANBUL
Tags: Turkey, industrial, explosion, death, unknown_chemical

4 BURNED I N GAS BLAST
T ags: South_Africa, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical


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DECATUR POLICE CHARGE 5 IN METH BUST< /font>
http://www.decaturdaily.com/stories/Decatur-police-charge-5-in- meth-bust,85282
Tags: us_AL, public, discovery, response, meth_lab

Police have charged four adults and a juvenile in connection with a meth bust Sunday night  at 3491 West Chapel Hill Road.

Decatur police spokesman Sgt. John Crouch said a call alleging the resident, Maurice White Moore Jr., was cooking methamphet amine with several other individuals brought four officers to the scene.

"T hey knocked on the door, and the occupants attempted to flee,=" Crouc h said. "But two officers at the back of the home were able to detai n three adult males and a 17-year-old juvenile. The officers observed anothe r person inside the residence, later identified as April Marie Ferguson. She would not comply with the officers and come out.="

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FIRE AT OIL TANK STORAGE SITE IN BEAUREGARD PARISH
Tags: us_LA, public, fire, response, petrol eum

BE AUREGARD, LA (KPLC) - Fire crews worked quickly starting around 6: 30am Tuesday to extinguish an oil tank fire at the Midstates P etroleum property on Hwy. 12 at Pierce Rd. west of Ragley.

"There was a flash fire," said Sgt. James Anderson, Public Information Officer for Lou isiana State Police.  

There was "one open tank burning and three other ta nks closed, " explained Ragley Fire Chief Tony Deville.

Joe Toler, Beauregard She riff's Office, said the flow was shut off to the tanks. Oil inside that tank did catch fire, but Deville said it was extinguished within 10 or 15 minutes. 

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MAJOR SPILL IN AURELIUS, 1.5 MILE AREA EVACUATED
Tags: us_NY, transportation, release, environmental , petroleum

CAYUGA COUNTY, N.Y. -- A one and a half mile wide radius is being evacu ated in the Cayuga County Town of Aurelius. It's due to a ruptured petroleum gas line on Turnpike Road near Townsend Road. Police have categorized this a s a major spill. Reverse 911 calls have been placed to anyone living in the a rea.

No injuries have been reported but crews from Onondaga County, the Department o f Environmental Conservation, several fire departments and hazmat crews are o n the scene.

The Commissioner of Aviation at Hancock Airport tells us that they have sent a foam trailer as well as a crash rescue truck to assist with the spil l.

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UPDATE: SPILL PROMPTS LADUE BUSINESS E VACUATIONS
Tags: us_MO, public, release, re sponse, sodium_cyanide

Ladue, MO (KSDK) - An accidental spill at a Ladue jewelry sto re prompted the closure of the westbound lanes of Clayton Road and several n earby businesses.

Someone spilled a container of sodium cyanide at Albarre Jewelry prompting the store and seven to 10 nearby stores to be evacuated.

The fire chie f said the substance was used 25 years ago to clean jewelry, but the governm ent has since banned it. The jewelry store didn't know what to do with it, s o it was kept in safe storage. The container containing the substance was kn ocked over Thursday afternoon.

The fire department could smell the chemical w hen it arrived at the scene and didn't go into the jewelry store. A Hazmat t eam also responded but was sent away because the spill was small.

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POLICE: TEENS EXPLODE CHEMICAL BOMBS IN NEIGHBORHOO D
Tags: us_NM, public, exp losion, response, bomb

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Police said they caught kids making chem ical bombs in a northeast Albuquerque neighborhood.
An explosion happened in the back of a home , and the children actually made three bombs, according to police.
No one answered the door a t 3505 Glorieta Street in northeast Albuquerque on Monday, but pol ice are investigating what a neighbor called 911 about.
"There=E2=80=99s some kids a cross the street from my house, making some kind of explosive noise, they ha ve a white gallon container and something yellow,=" said a 911 caller . "They're making loud popping noises with it.="

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HIGHWAY 38 CLOSED DUE TO FUEL SPILL
Tags: us_CA, transportation, rel ease, environmental, petroleum

A tractor-trailer overturned Tuesday about two mile s east of Angelus Oaks and spilled about 7,000 gallons of fuel onto Highway 3 8, forcing the closure of the mountain road and water-treatment plants in Re dlands and Highland.

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CARBON MONOXIDE FORCES E VAC OF SCHOOL
Tags: Canada, education, release, response, carbon_monoxide

The Edmont on Public School Board is prompting custodians to examine their boiler room p rocedures after a poisonous carbon monoxide scare led to the evacuation of m ore than 1,800 students Monday.

 


School staff evacuated Ross Sheppard High School located at 13546 111 Ave., around 8 am Monday. Fire Department Hazmat cre ws responding to what they initially thought was a gas leak discovered high l evels of carbon monoxide and immediately began fumigating the school of the d eadly gas.

"We checked the building for carbon monoxide levels and found le vels up to 1,000 parts per million which is quite hazardous to human life,=E2 =80=9D said Hazmat Captain Eric Takacs.

Together with Atco Gas and Ross Sheppard Hi gh School Maintenance, fire officials were able to determine the leak was th e result of an open vent in the north wing boiler room, creating negative pr essure in the ventilation system. The negative pressure pulled carbon monoxi de fumes into school halls instead of venting them outside.

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EPA FINES SOUTH PORTLAND COMPANY FOR IMPROPER CHEMICAL STORAG E
Ta gs: us_ME, industrial, discovery, environmental, wastes, follow-up

Monson Companie s' South Portland facility has been fined $151,900 for storing hazardous che micals in a way that could have led to the creation of toxic gases, a fire o r an explosion, EPA officials say.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fin ed a South Portland company that manufactures and distributes chemicals $151 ,900 for improper storage of hazardous materials.

Monson Companies Inc., of Leomi nster, Mass., operates a warehouse, distribution, repackaging and custom ble nding chemical manufacturing facility in South Portland, according to the EP A. 

Officials say Monson stored numerous chemicals "inappropriately." The ag ency says incompatible chemicals were stored so close together that a spill o r release of one could have set off a chemical reaction that might have crea ted toxic gases, a fire or explosion.

The company also failed to identify hazardou s wastes, maintain a proper emergency plan and submit a hazardous materials i nventory to emergency responders, the EPA says in a press release.

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MAN BURNT IN JHB CHEMICAL FIRE
Tags: Sout h_Africa, industrial, fire, injury, unknown_chemical

JOHANNESBURG - A man was severe ly burnt while working in a factory in Strydom Park in the north of Johannes burg on Monday, paramedics said.

"The man was mixing chemicals which ignited. He tur ned away, and his back and arms were extensively burnt," said ER24 spokeswom an Vanessa Jackson.

As the Baragwanath Hospital burn ward was full, the man was a irlifted to George Muhkari Hospital in Ga-Rankuwa, north-west of Pretoria, s aid Jackson.

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TWO DEAD, FOUR INJURED IN TUZLA FACTORY FIRE IN ISTANBUL
Tags: Turkey, indust rial, explosion, death, unknown_chemical

A fire was reported at around 10 a.m. in a chemical supplies factory in Istanbul=E2=80=99s Tuzla district.

An explosi on of unknown causes caused the building to burst into flames, killing two p eople. Four more were wounded as they struggled to evacuate the burning building.

Firefighters tried to keep the flames away from barrels full of chemical substances. The fire blew off the roof of the factory where it had originat ed and heavily damaging buildings nearby.

A witness was quoted as saying the explosio n that started the fire was "very violent."

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4 BURNED IN GAS BLAST
Tags: South_Africa, industrial, explosion, i njury, unknown_chemical

our men suffered burns in a chemical gas explosion at a facto ry in Alrode Park on the East Rand on Monday morning, paramedics said.< /font>

=E2=80 =9CThe four men were working in a closed pit and they described what seemed t o be an explosion before the fire started,=" said ER24 spokeswoman Va nessa Jackson.

Three suffered extensive burns to their faces, arms, hands and che sts, while the fourth had relatively minor injuries.

The cause of the explosion was n ot immediately clear. =E2=80=93 Sapa

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