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Monday, December 12, 2011 7:34:46 AM
A service of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
Table of Contents (8 articles)
PICTURES: FIRE GUTS DANDENONG SOUTH FACTORY
Tags: Australia, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
POLICE ARREST MEN WITH METH-MAKING GOODS AT SPRINGS POST OFFICE
Tags: us_CO, public, discovery, response, meth_lab
OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE TOXIC SPILL IN AIRPORT
Tags: us_FL, public, release, response, mercury
4 OVERCOME BY CHEMICAL AT MCAS MIRAMAR
Tags: us_CA, public, release, response, unknown_chemical, tear_gas
FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL SPILL AT UW
Tags: us_WA, laboratory, fire, response, flammables
CANBY HIGH SCHOOL EVACUATED AFTER CHEMISTRY LAB FIRE
Tags: us_OR, laboratory, fire, response, wastes
CHEMICAL SPILL EVACUATES RESEARCH BUILDING
Tags: us_ID, laboratory, release, response, unknown_chemical
PASADENA REFINERY CATCHES FIRE, 2 INJURED
Tags: us_TX, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
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PICTURES: FIRE GUTS DANDENONG SOUTH FACTORY
Tags: Australia, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
IRE crews worked for close to an hour fighting a blaze at a chemical factory in Dandenong South on the weekend.
The fire which sent plumes of thick black smoke across the south east is believed to have ignited in a mixing area of the Kitchen Rd factory.
About 70 per cent of the factory was destroyed with CFA crews able to stop the fire from spreading into office, laboratory and storage areas.
There were no injuries with all staff evacuated when the fire got out of control.
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POLICE ARREST MEN WITH METH-MAKING GOODS AT SPRINGS POST OFFICE
Tags: us_CO, public, discovery, response, meth_lab
Two men who appeared to be cooking or preparing to cook methamphetamine were arrested late Saturday inside a Colorado Springs post office, police said.
Officers checking on reports of homeless people staking a claim in the foyer of the post office at 2641 E. Uintah St. say they found Michael Tessler and Garin Shaw at about 10:30 p.m. with materials used to make meth.
A Colorado Springs Fire Department Hazmat crew was called to the scene. Tessler and Shaw were decontaminated and arrested, police said.
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OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE TOXIC SPILL IN AIRPORT
Tags: us_FL, public, release, response, mercury
FORT LAUDERDALE-HOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Fla. (WSVN) -- Hazmat crews needed to respond to a South Florida airport after a dangerous chemical spill.
Officials believe a vial of mercury spilled in the customs area of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday.
Hazmat crews were called out to clean up the mess.
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4 OVERCOME BY CHEMICAL AT MCAS MIRAMAR
Tags: us_CA, public, release, response, unknown_chemical, tear_gas
SAN DIEGO -- Four people were treated Friday morning after being exposed to remnants of a tear gas-like substance at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.
The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department and a hazardous materials team responded to what was initially ruled a "hazardous spill" of an unknown substance at the base. The report was received shortly before 10 a.m.
However, base officials said there was no hazardous spill, and added two Marines and two civilians standing near the base's east gate were inadvertently exposed by other Marines that had gone through CS gas training earlier in the day.
Authorities determined the area to be free of any chemicals and the gate was reopened following clean up.
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FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDS TO CHEMICAL SPILL AT UW
Tags: us_WA, laboratory, fire, response, flammables
The Seattle Fire Department is at the scene of a hazardous materials spill at the University of Washington=92s Benson Hall, the chemical engineering building.
The spill was reported at 5:44 p.m. According to Seattle fire, about 30 people were evacuated from the building. There were no injuries.
The spill occurred when two jars of chemicals fell to the floor. There was concern that if the chemicals mixed, they could be flammable.
Cleanup is now under way, according to the fire department.
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CANBY HIGH SCHOOL EVACUATED AFTER CHEMISTRY LAB FIRE
Tags: us_OR, laboratory, fire, response, wastes
CANBY =96 Students were temporarily evacuated at Canby High School after the remains of a science experiment burst into flames in a chemistry lab garbage can.
Canby Fire District responded to the call around 11:40 a.m. Friday. A teacher extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived. No one was injured.
"We got lucky," Canby Fire District Division Chief Troy Buzalsky said after the incident, which occurred in a room filled with chemicals.
Two students were walking down the hallway when they spotted flames coming from the classroom and notified faculty, Buzalsky said.
A teacher entered the chemistry lab =96 empty after a class 10 minutes earlier =96 and saw fire shooting three feet high from a metal garbage can. Inside was remnants from a chemistry experiment involving a copper penny, zinc and sodium hydroxide.
The teacher put out the fire with an extinguisher while other faculty members called police and evacuated students. About 1,200 of the school's 1,700 students were evacuated, Buzalsky said.
The wing in which the fire occurred reopened about an hour later, though the chemistry lab will remain closed for the day.
"At this time, it is believed that there was a chemical reaction that took place after the experiment in the garbage can where the discarded experiment debris was left," Buzalsky said.
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CHEMICAL SPILL EVACUATES RESEARCH BUILDING
Tags: us_ID, laboratory, release, response, unknown_chemical
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- A building on Technology Drive in Idaho Falls was evacuated after a chemical spill occurred inside.
Emergency personnel said that one of the work bays at the building is rented by Idaho State University's research team and were doing an experiment when the spill happened.
An odor was released in the area and our reporter said it could be smelled outside.
Five people were sent to the Willow Creek Medical office nearby to be checked out.
No injuries have been reported.
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PASADENA REFINERY CATCHES FIRE, 2 INJURED
Tags: us_TX, industrial, explosion, injury, unknown_chemical
PASADENA, Texas - A chemical refinery in Pasadena caught fire on Saturday night, alarming nearby residents who could hear explosions.
According to a spokesman for the Pasadena Chemical Refining Plant, the fire broke out around 7 p.m. at its facility on Red Bluff at W. Richey.
The company says the sludge at the bottom of a "coco tank" caught fire. While nearby residents said they heard at least two explosions, the company would only confirm there was a fire.
A spokesman for the Pasadena Police Department says two people were injured with non-life threatening injuries. One of the injured was sent to the hospital.
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