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Monday, November 14, 2011 7:54:56 AM

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Table of Contents (9 articles)

DRUG OFFICERS DISPOSE OF TANKS FOR METH LABS
Tags: public, release, environmental, meth_lab, follow-up

HAZMAT TEAM CALLED TO INVESTIGATE LEAKING CONTAINER IN REDONDO BEACH
Tags: us_AZ, transportation, release, response, pesticides

OILFIELD EXPLORATION RIG CARRYING EXPLOSIVES CATCHES FIRE
Tags: us_CA, transportation, explosion, response, explosives

KADI FIRE: 2 MORE SUCCUMB TO BURN INJURIES
Tags: India, industrial, fire, death, pharmaceutical

TOSOH FALLS MOST IN 2 MONTHS AFTER PLANT CATCHES FIRE
Tags: Japan, industrial, fire, death, unknown_chemical

TEXAS 80 REOPENS SIX HOURS AFTER CHEMICAL SPILL
Tags: us_TX, transportation, release, response, sodium_hydroxide

WORKER BURNED IN FIRE AT NUCLEAR RESEARCH LAB
Tags: us_ID, laboratory, fire, injury, radiation, sodium

CROOK CO. CREWS LET CHEMICAL FIRE BURN OUT
Tags: us_OR, industrial, fire, response, zirconium

SEBASTOPOL MAN SUFFERS BURNS ON HANDS, FACE, ARMS, CHEST WHEN MOBILE HOME GOES UP IN FLAMES
Tags: us_CA, public, explosion, response, drugs
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DRUG OFFICERS DISPOSE OF TANKS FOR METH LABS
http://emissourian.com/news/top_stories/article_9931b746-bdb1-55fe-97f0-107351f52016.html
Tags: public, release, environmental, meth_lab, follow-up

Authorities must take extra precaution while disposing of meth lab components recovered at meth lab scenes due to the dangerous chemicals used to produce the drug.
That‚s why anhydrous ammonia, propane and sometimes oxygen tanks are removed from lab sites, stored and then disposed of safely in remote locations.
„Basically each one of these is a lab,‰ said Franklin County Narcotics Enforcement Unit (FCNEU) Cpl. Scott Briggs as he loaded tanks onto a trailer to be hauled from a shooting range in Union.
The tanks were removed Thursday afternoon from the range that Union police officers use for target practice.
The tanks had been collected from meth labs within the county since August.
Union police officers shot at the tanks Wednesday from distances between 50-100 yards to limit exposure to chemicals, or injury from tanks that could explode.

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HAZMAT TEAM CALLED TO INVESTIGATE LEAKING CONTAINER IN REDONDO BEACH
http://www.easyreadernews.com/37374/redondo-beach-hazardous-spill/
Tags: us_AZ, transportation, release, response, pesticides

The Torrance police and fire department, the Redondo Beach Fire Department, and the Torrance hazmat division were called to DSD Trucking at 2400 Marine Ave  earlier Friday afternoon after workers opened a damaged container and noticed an unpleasant smell.

Employees were unloading the container in preparation to reload it into a  truck when seven employees noticed an unpleasant smelling powder leaking from the shipment. They immediately alerted the fire department and evacuated the area.

„We smelled it and got out right away,‰ said Chris Viellea, an 11 year employee of DSD Trucking from L.A.„The smell was really bad.‰

The shipping container is suspected to contain pesticides from overseas and was expected to be delivered to Arizona. According to the fire department, often times things are damaged in transit and spills of this nature are typical.

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OILFIELD EXPLORATION RIG CARRYING EXPLOSIVES CATCHES FIRE
http://www.turnto23.com/news/29749539/detail.html
Tags: us_CA, transportation, explosion, response, explosives

BUTTONWILLOW, Calif. -- An oilfield exploration rig that was carrying explosives caught fire Friday afternoon, shutting down part of Interstate 5.
Kern County firefighters and hazmat crews were sent out to the intersection of Interstate 5 and Tracy Avenue near Buttonwillow after reports of a fire.
Crews said that when they arrived, they heard an explosion and immediately secured the area.
The driver of the rig told officials that there were detonators and explosives inside the vehicle.
The rig was quickly extinguished and the roads were reopened about 3:20 p.m.

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KADI FIRE: 2 MORE SUCCUMB TO BURN INJURIES
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_kadi-fire-2-more-succumb-to-burn-injuries_1612278
Tags: India, industrial, fire, death, pharmaceutical

Two more labourers, caught in a fire in Kadi, succumbed to their injuries on Sunday. The two were injured following a fire in a pharmaceutical company near Kadi in Mehsana district. With two more death, the toll in the incident has touched seven. Five labourers were killed on Saturday in the massive fire.
According to Kadi police officials, of the four injured, Govind

Thakore, 25, a resident of Kadi died during medical treatment in Ahmedabad civil hospital. Ganeshji Thakore, 20, also succumbed to his injuries at Kalol civil hospital in the wee hours of Sunday.

On Saturday morning at 11 am a major fire broke out in a medicinal alcohol bottling unit of Kayvee Aeropharm Company in Kadi GIDC. The manufacturing and packing of the alcohol-based liquid, used by doctors as an antiseptic to clean wounds, was being done inside an air-tight room.

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TOSOH FALLS MOST IN 2 MONTHS AFTER PLANT CATCHES FIRE
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-14/tosoh-falls-most-in-2-months-after-plant-catches-fire.html
Tags: Japan, industrial, fire, death, unknown_chemical

Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Tosoh Corp. fell the most in more than two months in Tokyo trading after a chemical plant operated by the company in Yamaguchi prefecture, western Japan, caught fire.

Tosoh slid as much as 7 percent, the biggest intraday loss since Sept. 6, and traded 4.4 percent lower at 219 yen as of 9:30 a.m. on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose 1.5 percent.

A worker was found dead this morning at the factory, Tosoh President Kenichi Udagawa said today at a news conference in Tokyo. The fire at the plant is "almost extinguished," Yasuyuki Koie, a managing director at the chemical maker, said.

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TEXAS 80 REOPENS SIX HOURS AFTER CHEMICAL SPILL
http://smmercury.com/50407/texas-80-open-after-six-hour-chemical-spill-shutdown/
Tags: us_TX, transportation, release, response, sodium_hydroxide
Traffic reopened on Texas 80 in San Marcos around 12:30 p.m. Friday after a chemical spill closed the road for six hours. One eastbound lane of Texas 80 remains closed as the clean up continues this afternoon.
A semi tractor trailer carrying sodium hydroxide or lye, a caustic material, dropped two containers off the trailer around 6:24 am today. Tne 330 gallon container spilled its contents. No one was injured.

Emergency responders, including the San Marcos fire and police departments and Hays-San Marcos EMS, were on scene to respond to the spill this morning

The truck was a part of a convoy for Mission Well Services of San Antonio traveling through San Marcos. Alamo 1, a hazardous materials company from San Antonio, is continuing the clean up.

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WORKER BURNED IN FIRE AT NUCLEAR RESEARCH LAB
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/11/us-nuclear-lab-fire-idUSTRE7AA53L20111111
Tags: us_ID, laboratory, fire, injury, radiation, sodium

(Reuters) - A sodium fire erupted on Friday at a U.S. Nuclear laboratory in Idaho, burning one worker, but the incident posed no risk to the public, the lab said.

The incident was the second this week at the sprawling facility. Earlier this week, at least six workers were contaminated by low-level plutonium radiation and 11 others were exposed following a mishap at the lab.

The chemical fire on Friday broke out in a building adjacent to a decommissioned, experimental reactor at the U.S. Department of Energy's sprawling Idaho National Laboratory that is cooled by sodium, lab spokeswoman Sara Prentice said.

The fire may have been caused by a sodium reaction, Prentice said.

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CROOK CO. CREWS LET CHEMICAL FIRE BURN OUT
http://www.ktvz.com/news/29748177/detail.html
Tags: us_OR, industrial, fire, response, zirconium

PRINEVILLE, Ore. -- A fire at a plant that mixes chemicals used for road anti-icer west of Prineville Thursday afternoon prompted a worker evacuation and the precautionary shutdown of a nearby road, authorities said Friday.
Crook County Fire and Rescue responded around 2:30 p.m. Thursday to the reported fire at the Prineville Freight Depot about four miles west of town, said Fire Marshal Casey Kump.
The call was reported as a zirconium fire at a magnesium chloride mixing plant at the freight depot, he said.
Fire crews arrived to find workers had evacuated from a byproduct waste disposal area, where about eight 55-gallon barrels were burning, Kump said.

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SEBASTOPOL MAN SUFFERS BURNS ON HANDS, FACE, ARMS, CHEST WHEN MOBILE HOME GOES UP IN FLAMES
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20111112/ARTICLES/111119813/1033/news?Title=Drug-making-suspected-in-Sebastopol-explosion
Tags: us_CA, public, explosion, response, drugs

A 22-year-old man suffered severe burns when a Sebastopol-area mobile home in which he was staying exploded and went up in flames Saturday, authorities said.

The explosion is under investigation as being related to drug production, perhaps the manufacture of hash oil, in which volatile chemical solvents are used to separate potent resins from marijuana plant parts, Sonoma County Sheriff's Sgt. Vance Eaton said.

If true, it would be the second such incident within a week. On Tuesday night, suspected hash oil manufacturing sparked an explosion at a house on Santa Rosa's Morgan Street, prompting one arrest.

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