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Wednesday, December 7, 2011 7:19:53 AM
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Table of Contents (20 articles)
LEFARGEVILLE CHEMICAL SPILL LEAVES NO INJURIES, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Tags: us_NY, industrial, release, response, acids
CHEMICAL FIRE IN PENRYN
Tags: United_Kingdom, industrial, fire, response, phosphine
BOTTLE BOMB EXPLODES IN EL CAPITAN HS CLASSROOM
Tags: us_CA, education, explosion, response, bomb
'UNIDENTIFIED TOXIC SUBSTANCE' CLOSES SOUTH CITY STREET, SICKENS SEVERAL
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
YET ANOTHER LEAK AT ORICA PLANT
Tags: Australia, industrial, release, response, ammonium_nitrate
FUEL LEAK CLOSES HWY 24 LANE
Tags: us_CO, transportation, release, response, petroleum
ROADS CLOSED DUE TO ACID SPILL
Tags: us_AZ, transportation, release, response, sulfuric_acid
FIRE CREWS RESPOND TO SULFURIC ACID LEAK IN GASTONIA
Tags: us_NC, transportation, release, response, sulfuric_acid
GAS TANKER OVERTURNS IN BOWIE
Tags: us_MD, transportation, release, response, gasoline
500 GALLONS OF DIESEL FUEL SPILL ONTO HIGHWAY AFTER TANKER OVERTURNS IN SECAUCUS =AB CBS NEW YORK
Tags: us_NJ, transportation, release, environmental, diesel
Tags: us_AZ, industrial, explosion, injury, ammonia
6,400 GALLONS OF ETHYL ALCOHOL SPILL AT HEAVEN HILL
Tags: us_KY, transportation, release, environmental, ethanol
LIGHT FIXTURE BEHIND FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL HAZMAT
Tags: us_PA, education, release, injury, sodium
BAINBRIDGE NEWS DANGEROUS FIRE AVERTED
Tags: us_GA, public, fire, response, flammables
CHEMICAL FIRE AT BOATYARD
Tags: United_Kingdom, industrial, fire, response, gas_cylinders
JFE SAYS NO IMPACT ON OUTPUT FROM FIRE AT CHIBA STEEL MILL
Tags: Japan, industrial, fire, response, sulfuric_acid
CHEMICAL SPILL IN LABSCI CUTS OFF TRAFFIC AROUND BUILDING
Tags: us_MO, laboratory, release, injury, unknown_chemical
PFD DOUSES BARREL OF FUEL AFLAME AT AUTO SHOP [PHOTOS]
Tags: us_MA, industrial, fire, response, gasoline
CARRAGEENAN PROCESSING PUMP CATCHES FIRE IN ROCKLAND
Tags: us_ME, industrial, fire, injury
BOTCHED PORTERVILLE HASH OIL EXPERIMENT CAUSES EXPLOSION
Tags: us_CA, public, explosion, response, butane, drugs
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LEFARGEVILLE CHEMICAL SPILL LEAVES NO INJURIES, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Tags: us_NY, industrial, release, response, acids
LAFARGEVILLE =97 A chemical spill in the hamlet Friday released no chemicals into the environment, according to officials from the Department of Environmental Conservation.
In a release from the department, officials were called around 3:22 p.m. Friday about a spill taking place at Crowley Foods, a division of HP Hood, LLC, Route 411.
According to the release, 300 gallons of mixed sulfuric and nitric acid and 100 gallons of sodium hydroxide and caustic acid leaked into a secondary container of their respective tanks.
Plant personnel planned to pump the product back into its original tank and use the chemicals before
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CHEMICAL FIRE IN PENRYN
Tags: United_Kingdom, industrial, fire, response, phosphine
Thirty people evacuated at Penryn after fire took hold at a boatyard, are back in their homes.
Four chemical drums caught fire first thing on Tuesday morning at Islington Wharf.
Diversions had to be set up amid road closures in the town. Commercial Road, Church Road and Church Hill are now open again. Some drivers had been reporting delays of around half an hour to get from Penryn to Falmouth.
Fire crews say the situation is now under control and flames are out. A spokesperson for the council said, "The scene has now been left in the hands of the owners who will continue to monitor levels of phosphine throughout the day. The levels are now considered safe. Residents living on the houseboats within the boatyard will be able to return to their homes later today after fire officers have conducted a final check to confirm the drums pose no further threat to the public."
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BOTTLE BOMB EXPLODES IN EL CAPITAN HS CLASSROOM
Tags: us_CA, education, explosion, response, bomb
SAN DIEGO -- An apparent bottle bomb detonated inside a Lakeside high school classroom during school hours Tuesday.
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According to authorities, the device exploded inside a classroom at El Capitan High School shortly before 3 p.m.
Grossmont Union High School District spokeswoman Catherine Martin told 10News a two-litter bottle containing an unknown substance was placed in a trash can inside the classroom during the school's 7th period.
Santee Fire Department officials and San Diego County sheriff's deputies were summoned to investigate and later determined that a pressurized chemical reaction occurred in what appeared to be a bottle bomb, causing the explosion and setting off school fire alarms.
No students or school staff members were seriously injured, but one student was transported after complaining of ringing in the ears, eye irritation and a headache.
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'UNIDENTIFIED TOXIC SUBSTANCE' CLOSES SOUTH CITY STREET, SICKENS SEVERAL
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
An =93unidentified toxic substance=94 closed a South San Francisco street for nearly five hours after a building inspector became ill during a routine inspection.
Second Lane between north to Magnolia Avenue was closed just after 3 p.m. when South San Francisco Fire Department received a call that a toxic odor had made a building inspector sick during a visit to a home at 552 Second Lane, Battalion Chief Arthur Mosqueda said.
The homeowners were interested in doing a remodel, Mosqueda said, but the smell of the toxic substance was so strong the building inspector had gotten sick and called 911. The woman was transported to the hospital and is =93doing fine.=94
Mosqueda said the block was evacuated until around 8 p.m. Crews searched the house and could only find an unknown product at the bottom of a garbage bin.
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YET ANOTHER LEAK AT ORICA PLANT
Tags: Australia, industrial, release, response, ammonium_nitrate
About 20,000 litres of a low hazard substance have spilled on to the ground at the Orica plant near Newcastle this afternoon, prompting a quick reaction by emergency services.
The dilute ammonium nitrate solution, which has been described as being equivalent to garden fertiliser, overflowed from a tank at the plant this afternoon, a spokesman from the Environmental Protection Authority said.
Fire and Rescue HAZMAT crews and NSW Ambulance attended the scene and crews are assisting Orica with the clean-up.
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The incident comes a day after the Office of Environment and Heritage allowed Orica to restart part of the Kooragang Island plant responsible for an ammonia leak last month.
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FUEL LEAK CLOSES HWY 24 LANE
Tags: us_CO, transportation, release, response, petroleum
MANITOU SPRINGS --
Manitou Springs Police said the semi sprung a leak in its fuel tank, leaking 90 gallons of fuel on the road.
An eastbound lane is still closed as Hazmat crews, Manitou Springs Fire Department and Colorado State Patrol continue to clean up the mess.
Officials said they're waiting to tow the semi before opening the lane back up.
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ROADS CLOSED DUE TO ACID SPILL
Tags: us_AZ, transportation, release, response, sulfuric_acid
Several roads around Thatcher were closed for hours Monday morning after a Bulk Transportation tank trailer intermittently leaked sulfuric acid from the intersection of Highway 70 and Norton Road to the Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. Safford mine.
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Bulk Transportation terminal manager Todd Donham allegedly told a Sheriff's Office Lieutenant that the truck driver failed to seal the tanker's lid correctly, and acid escaped every time the truck stopped or turned.
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FIRE CREWS RESPOND TO SULFURIC ACID LEAK IN GASTONIA
Tags: us_NC, transportation, release, response, sulfuric_acid
GASTONIA, N.C. -- The Gastonia Fire Department said they responded to a sulfuric acid leak from a 55-gallon drum in the back of a tractor-trailer Tuesday afternoon.
Fire officials said the driver turned off Interstate 85 when he heard the drum over-turn. He pulled the truck off at the intersection of North Chester and New Way Roads and discovered a small leak of sulfuric acid solution.
The Gastonia Fire Department=92s Hazmat team responded and packaged the container in an over-pack drum to contain the leak. The drum was sealed and a hazmat clean up company removed it to a safer location, according to the press release.
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GAS TANKER OVERTURNS IN BOWIE
Tags: us_MD, transportation, release, response, gasoline
BOWIE, Md. - A tanker carrying 9,000 gallons of gas overturned in Bowie Monday night spilling fuel into the roadway, authorities said.
The gas tanker and at least two other vehicles collided in the southbound lanes of Route 3 before Route 450 in Bowie just before 9:30 p.m., fire officials said.
The tanker overturned on its side and began to leak a small amount of fuel.
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500 GALLONS OF DIESEL FUEL SPILL ONTO HIGHWAY AFTER TANKER OVERTURNS IN SECAUCUS =AB CBS NEW YORK
Tags: us_NJ, transportation, release, environmental, diesel
SECAUCUS, NJ (CBSNewYork) =96 Several homes had to be evacuated early Tuesday morning after a diesel tanker truck overturned, spilling fuel in Secaucus.
The crash happened around midnight on Route 3. The driver of the truck said he was cut off and forced to swerve into the woods. That=92s when the truck overturned and starting spilling hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel onto the road.
Hazmat crews were called to scene and worked furiously to keep the fuel contained and from spilling into a nearby stream. Police evacuated eight homes as a precaution, worried that the fuel may catch fire. They were allowed back in their homes a few hours later.
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Tags: us_AZ, industrial, explosion, injury, ammonia
Two people were severely injured while working at a vegetable packing shed when they were exposed to an anhydrous ammonia explosion at Yuma (AZ) Express Cooling. The explosion sent a shock wave from between two tanks, sending one man running out about ten feet in front of the shock wave and another behind him who was engulfed in the shock wave that, to a witness, picked him up off the ground for about five or six feet, until he finally hit the ground running again.
The plume of ammonia smoke was about 45 feet high. People who were evacuating a nearby building ran right into it when they exited. When the alarms started, people ran out all the exits, but they didn't know what they were getting into. The wind carried the wave toward the southeast where everybody was evacuating so they were actually running into the plume of ammonia. The first YFD units to arrive on scene found multiple victims with varied degrees of ammonia exposure. The most severe exposure victim was transported immediately to Yuma Regional Medical Center by a YFD Rescue truck.
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6,400 GALLONS OF ETHYL ALCOHOL SPILL AT HEAVEN HILL
Tags: us_KY, transportation, release, environmental, ethanol
About 6,400 gallons of ethyl alcohol spilled from the back of a Heaven Hill Distilleries facility off KY 49, Loretto Road, Saturday afternoon.
Roughly a tanker truck=92s worth of 180-proof, potable alcohol, used for blending at Heaven Hill, poured into a nearby creek and lake as firefighters, state environmental regulators and the Nelson County Emergency Management Agency were called to the scene.
The accident occurred as a tanker truck was transferring the alcohol into a tank behind the distillery=92s main bottling building.
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LIGHT FIXTURE BEHIND FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL HAZMAT
Tags: us_PA, education, release, injury, sodium
Light Fixture Behind Father Judge High School HazMat
Officials: Broken Sodium Fixture Released Gas
Updated: Monday, 05 Dec 2011, 11:07 AM EST
Published : Monday, 05 Dec 2011, 7:47 AM EST
PHILADELPHIA - Father Judge High School became off-limits and two local emergency rooms were temporarily quarantined, according to fire department sources, after a hazardous materials incident was traced back to the school.
At least five to 10 victims, several of them cheerleaders, have been complaining of eye irritation and visited two or three emergency rooms, FOX 29's Sean Tobin reported.
We're told parents are also among the patients who are being treated with the cheerleaders after they visited the all-boy school Sunday to participate in a competition being held there.
For some of the patients the problem was so bad that they were taken to the hospital to have their eyes flushed, Tobin reported.
Victims went to as many as three hospitals in Northeast Philadelphia, and officials soon figured out that the common bond was they had all been at Father Judge.
Hazardous materials crews responded to the school, located on Solly Road in Northeast Philadelphia, before dawn to investigate.
Shortly after 7 a.m., fire officials said says a sodium light fixture broke in the auditorium, releasing a gas that caused the irritation.
The cases led to the quarantining of those two hospital emergency rooms, and the Department of Homeland Security was even notified, Tobin reported.
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BAINBRIDGE NEWS DANGEROUS FIRE AVERTED
Tags: us_GA, public, fire, response, flammables
Sheriff's Deputies, Decatur County Fire and Rescue, Kendrick and other volunteer firefighters, along with Georgia Forestry and EMS responded Monday afternoon to a potentially dangerous fire.
The fire occurred in a storage area behind True Life Creations Taxidermy located at 2211 Spring Creek Rd.
A spark from a rubbish fire is thought to have blown into a nearby area catching sawdust or paper on fire, according to Decatur County Fire Chief Charlie McCann. In the adjacent area, there was reported to be seven 55 gallon drums of a flammable liquid.
Firefighters were able to contain the fire very quickly averting a potentially dangerous chemical fire.
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CHEMICAL FIRE AT BOATYARD
Tags: United_Kingdom, industrial, fire, response, gas_cylinders
Firefighters are tackling a chemical fire in a Cornwall boatyard.
Five fire crews are tackling a blaze at Islington Wharf in Penryn, near Falmouth, Cornwall Fire and Rescue said.
A spokeswoman confirmed there were chemicals in gas cylinders involved in the fire, which started shortly before 6am on Tuesday.
BBC Cornwall said there were unconfirmed reports that one or more drums of the fertiliser phosgene - which was used as a chemical weapon during World War One - were involved.
"The fire is now under control, a 100m cordon has been set up in the boatyard because of the gas cylinders," the spokeswoman added.
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JFE SAYS NO IMPACT ON OUTPUT FROM FIRE AT CHIBA STEEL MILL
Tags: Japan, industrial, fire, response, sulfuric_acid
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- JFE Holdings Inc., Japan=92s second- largest steelmaker, said there was no impact on operations from a fire today at its Chiba mill.
There were no injuries from the fire, which was extinguished at 12:24 p.m. Tokyo time, Toru Iwamoto, a spokesman for the company=92s JFE Steel unit, said by phone.
The fire occurred in a three-story storage facility on the mill grounds, damaging an area of 1,000 square meters, said Hidetoshi Miho, a spokesman for the Chiba City fire department. The cause is still being investigated, he said.
This is the second fire at the Chiba facilities within four days. Four workers were injured by an explosion at JFE Chemical Co.=92s sulfuric acid tank on Dec. 2.
JFE fell 4.1 percent to 1,464 yen at 1:50 p.m. in Tokyo, the most in two weeks.
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CHEMICAL SPILL IN LABSCI CUTS OFF TRAFFIC AROUND BUILDING
Police and fire trucks blocked off Snow Way and the area around Laboratory Sciences Monday night after a chemical spill occurred in one of the building=92s labs.
One student had to have his eyes flushed and was driven to the hospital by the police, but was otherwise fine, Washington University spokesman Steve Givens said.
University police cars and four fire trucks from Richmond Heights and Clayton were on the scene at 10:15 p.m. They had been called in at around 8:45 p.m.
The alarms went off while students in LabSci were taking an organic chemistry test.
=93The fire alarm went off when there were about 12 minutes of the test left=85then the police came and said to get out of the building, and that was with 7 minutes left,=94 sophomore Michael Harding said. =93[The TA] was basically saying that if we were really concerned about the fire alarms we should turn in the tests, but if we were really concerned about orgo we should stay and finish.=94
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PFD DOUSES BARREL OF FUEL AFLAME AT AUTO SHOP [PHOTOS]
Tags: us_MA, industrial, fire, response, gasoline
Firefighters responded to an auto body shop on Willard Street Monday afternoon on a report of a fire involving gasoline. deal with a small barrel of gasoline that caught on fire underneath a vehicle.
Deputy Fire Chief Paul Hinchion said it was a good thing Diaz Racing, located in the industrial park off Pulaski Street, had a working sprinkler system, otherwise it would have been a very different story.
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CARRAGEENAN PROCESSING PUMP CATCHES FIRE IN ROCKLAND
ROCKLAND =97 An early morning fire at FMC BioPolymer on Crocketts Point in Rockland was quickly extinguished Dec. 4 after a pump overheated in the plant's alcohol room.
Rockland firefighters arrived at the manufacturing facility soon after 6 a.m. to find a fire in a part of the plant that uses alcohol to process its carrageenan products. The pump had caught fire, and while sprinklers were at work when firefighters entered the building, Rockland Fire continued to extinguish the fire.
"That's one of the places in the city that if we get a call we know it might not be good," said Rockland's Assistant Fire Chief Ken Elwell.
Rockland responded with four engines, 10 firefighters and three ambulances; Rockport responded with two engines and approximately 10 firefighters.
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BOTCHED PORTERVILLE HASH OIL EXPERIMENT CAUSES EXPLOSION
Tags: us_CA, public, explosion, response, butane, drugs
PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KFSN) -- A South Valley man is in jail for causing an explosion while police say he was trying to make drugs in his apartment. It happened in Porterville on Sunnyside Street near Henderson Avenue.
Repairmen spent most of Monday replacing windows in several units at Sunnyside Apartments in Porterville after a drug-making experiment caused an explosion.
Porterville Police say Seth Liberty, 27, was trying to make a concentrated form of marijuana using a butane bottle and a plastic container.
Sgt. Ronald Moore said, "We think that a flame or a spark came out of the butane and ignited and caused the explosion."
Nicholas Clinger claims he was in the apartment when the explosion happened. He says he, Liberty and some other friends were trying to speed up the process of making a highly intoxicating hash out of marijuana so they put the container in the freezer.
Clinger said, "All that platter has gas and stuff in it but we wanted it to freeze up so we could smoke it already so we put it in the freezer and then boom that's it done deal don't put your hash in the freezer."
The blast blew the door off the refrigerator and broke the windows to the apartment and an apartment next door.
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