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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines (6 articles)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 07:36:51 -0400
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Chemical Safety Headlines From Google
Monday, October 5, 2020 at 7:36:35 AM
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Table of Contents (6 articles)
CREWS RESPONDING TO HAZMAT SPILL IN PAWLEYS ISLAND
Tags: us_sc, transportation, release, response, gasoline
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS MAN MADE ‰??DOZENS‰?? OF BOMBS, POLICE SAY ‰?? BOSTON HERALD
Tags: us_MA, public, discovery, response, bomb, illegal
CREWS OFFLOADING 15,000 GALLONS OF FUEL FROM TANKER ROLLOVER IN NORTH SALT LAKE
Tags: us_UT, transportation, release, response, other_chemical
DRIVER DIES AFTER ACID-LADEN TRUCK OVERTURNS ON KL-KARAK HIGHWAY
Tags: Malaysia, transportation, release, death, hydrochloric_acid
HOW WILDFIRES ARE CONTAMINATING THE WATER SUPPLY WITH BENZENE, OTHER HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS
Tags: us_CA, public, discovery, environmental, benzene
WILDFIRE SMOKE IS LACED WITH TOXIC CHEMICALS
Tags: us_CA, public, discovery, environmental, pesticides, toxics, waste
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CREWS RESPONDING TO HAZMAT SPILL IN PAWLEYS ISLAND
https://www.wbtw.com/local-news/crews-responding-to-hazmat-spill-in-pawleys-island/
Tags: us_sc, transportation, release, response, gasoline
PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. (WCBD) ‰?? Midway Fire Rescue is responding to a hazardous materials situation at the HotSpot gas station on Highway 17 and South Causeway Road.
According to Midway Fire Rescue, a tanker truck spilled approximately 400 gallons of gasoline from one truck cell. Approximately 6,500 gallons are still on the truck not leaking.
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WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS MAN MADE ‰??DOZENS‰?? OF BOMBS, POLICE SAY ‰?? BOSTON HERALD
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/10/03/western-massachusetts-man-made-dozens-of-bombs-police-say/
Tags: us_MA, public, discovery, response, bomb, illegal
A combination of local, state and federal authorities came crashing down this week on a small-town Western Massachusetts man who they say has been making and seeking to sell ‰??dozens‰?? of bombs.
The Office of the State Fire Marshal, who issued the news release on the matter, said a Monterey man ‰?? who authorities haven‰??t yet identified ‰?? will be summonsed to court to face multiple charges on the illegal possession, manufacture and sale of explosive devices.
Police officers served a warrant Friday on West Road in Monterey, a town of around 1,000 near Great Barrington near the borders of New York and Connecticut, ‰??focusing on illegal manufacturing and sale of homemade M Class explosive devices.‰??
The State Police Bomb Squad and fire investigators ‰??secured dozens of completed destructive devices and explosive components.‰?? Authorities said they were taken to a ‰??secure location‰?? and neutralized.
Authorities said they were led to the home by a tip from a member of the public.
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CREWS OFFLOADING 15,000 GALLONS OF FUEL FROM TANKER ROLLOVER IN NORTH SALT LAKE
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/crews-offloading-15-000-gallons-of-fuel-from-tanker-rollover-in-north-salt-lake
Tags: us_UT, transportation, release, response, other_chemical
Multiple departments are responding to a tanker rollover that happened early Saturday morning.
According to Battalion Chief Steve Moss with South Davis Metro Fire, the tanker rolled around 4:30 a.m. on the I-215 westbound on-ramp from Redwood Road.
It briefly spilled some fuel, but crews were able to stop it before it caused any major environmental concerns.
South Davis and Salt Lake City hazmat teams are offloading the tanker's load of 15,000 gallons of fuel before moving the truck.
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DRIVER DIES AFTER ACID-LADEN TRUCK OVERTURNS ON KL-KARAK HIGHWAY
https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/10/04/driver-dies-after-acid-laden-truck-overturns-on-kl-karak-highway/1909381
Tags: Malaysia, transportation, release, death, hydrochloric_acid
KUANTAN, Oct 4 ‰?? A man died after the acid-laden truck that he was driving overturned at KM 43 of the Kuala Lumpur - Karak Highway yesterday.
Pahang Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department chief Supt Kamarulzaman Jusoh said in the 9.19pm incident, the victim P. Siniwasan, 56, died at the scene.
He said the victim from Kampung Seri Serendah, Selangor who was on his way to Bentong from Kuala Lumpur was believed to have lost control of the vehicle before it skidded, hit a wall and overturned.
‰??The incident caused the contents of the tanker which was hydrochloric acid to spill onto the road. The victim‰??s body was taken to Bentong Hospital for post mortem,‰?? he said in a statement here today.
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HOW WILDFIRES ARE CONTAMINATING THE WATER SUPPLY WITH BENZENE, OTHER HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/10/02/wildfires-water-contamination
Tags: us_CA, public, discovery, environmental, benzene
Scientists are just beginning to understand how the catastrophic fires in the West are leaching cancer-causing chemicals like benzene into groundwater.
Andrew Whelton, an associate professor of civil engineering at Purdue University, often gets called in when there's an issue with water. Three months after the Tubbs Fire in 2017, he says he was called to Santa Rosa, California, as the city tried to flush contamination out of its water system.
‰??And they had not thought ahead about the fact that the contamination can actually go into the infrastructure,‰?? he says. ‰??It takes a while to come out.‰??
Santa Rosa issued a boil water advisory for the 13 homes left standing in the area most impacted by the fire, he says. A month later, someone reported to their utility that the water in their house had a strange smell.
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WILDFIRE SMOKE IS LACED WITH TOXIC CHEMICALS
https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/wildfire-smoke-laced-with-toxic-chemicals/
Tags: us_CA, public, discovery, environmental, pesticides, toxics, waste
When you breathe in smoke from a wildfire, you‰??re probably inhaling more toxic chemicals than you realize.
Pollution from power plants and vehicles, pesticides, fertilizers, and chemicals in waste can all make their way into trees and plants. When those trees and plants burn, chemicals are released along with health-harming particulate matter in the smoke, gas, and ash.
Smoke plumes from the Slater and Devil fires in Northern California. When the materials in homes and other buildings burn in these fires it adds more harmful pollutants to an already unhealthy the mix.
Millions of people have been breathing that smoky air this year as the western US experiences another extreme fire year. More than 4 million acres had burned in the West by October 1, California had nearly doubled its previous record for acreage burned, and several weeks of wildfire risk were still ahead.
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