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HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS TO HYDROCHLORIC ACID LEAK IN
COTTAGE GROVE
Tags: us_WI, transportation,
release, response, hydrochloric_acid
CRIMINAL CHARGES UNLIKELY IN
WF HAZMAT SCARE
Tags: us_NJ, public,
release, injury, chlorine
TWO WOMEN HOSPITALIZED AFTER BEING EXPOSED TO
HAZARDOUS AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL
Tags:
us_CA, public, release, injury, ag_chems
DALLAS
BOMB SQUAD SHIFTS CONTROL FROM POLICE TO FIRE
DEPARTMENT
Tags: us_TX, public,
discovery, response, picric_acid
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB REOPENS
AFTER CHLORINE GAS SPILL
Tags:
Canada, public, release, injury, chlorine
AFFIDAVIT: SOME CHEMICALS IN MAKESHIFT LAB IN ANDERSON ARE
DECADES OLD
Tags: us_SC, laboratory,
discovery, response, biodiesel, sodium_cyanide
HAZMAT
EMERGENCY CLOSES BAKERSFIELD ROADS
Tags:
us_CA, industrial, explosion, response,
diammonium_peroxidisulphate
ABC NEWS (AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING
CORPORATION)
Tags: Australia,
transportation, release, response, corrosives,
nitric_acid
UPDATE: TWO ARRESTED AFTER METH LAB FOUND AT KNIGHTS
INN
Tags: us_GA, public,
discovery, response, meth_lab
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HAZMAT
TEAM RESPONDS TO HYDROCHLORIC ACID LEAK IN COTTAGE
GROVE
Tags: us_WI, transportation,
release, response, hydrochloric_acid
A truck leaking hydrochloric
acid was slowing traffic in Cottage Grove on Tuesday afternoon,
officials said.
The Madison department's
Hazardous Material Team was dispatched to the vicinity of Highway N and
Commerce Park to help handle the leak, department spokeswoman Lori Wirth
said.
The Cottage Grove Fire
Department requested assistance, and initial reports were that about six
gallons of the acid had spilled, Wirth said.
A motorist saw liquid coming out of the truck's tank
and signalled to the driver to pull over, she said.
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CRIMINAL
CHARGES UNLIKELY IN WF HAZMAT SCARE
Tags:
us_NJ, public, release, injury, chlorine
Police
are not pursuing criminal charges against the woman who sparked a
contamination scare by mixing ammonia and bleach in a Westfield park on
Thursday, Westfield police captain David Wayman said. The chemicals,
which, when combined, release a toxic chlorine gas, sent the woman to
the hospital with reported breathing issues, injured a police officer
and sparked a temporary quarantine of the park. Police have declined to
release the name of the woman, but describe her as a Westfield resident
in her early 20s.
"We=E2=80=99re still interviewing her,="
Wayman said Tuesday morning. "At this time it does not appear to
be criminal in nature.=" He added that police have not determined
whether the woman was attempting to commit suicide.
At 10:33
a.m. on Thursday, the woman called police from Brightwood Park, which
borders Scotch Plains, to report that she was struggling to breathe.
When two officers responded to the park, they found that the woman had
fallen unconscious. Nearby, they also discovered a structure made of
tarp and other materials that contained the chemicals, which the woman
had apparently attempted to mix in a bucket, Wayman
said.
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TWO WOMEN
HOSPITALIZED AFTER BEING EXPOSED TO HAZARDOUS AGRICULTURAL
CHEMICAL
Tags:
us_CA, public, release, injury, ag_chems
Two
agricultural workers were hospitalized Tuesday morning after being
exposed to a hazardous chemical in unincorporated Napa County,
authorities said.
Two women working at a nursery near the corner of Big
Ranch Road and Oak Knoll Avenue, north of the city of Napa, had a
reaction to a chemical that drifted near them, city of Napa spokesman
Barry Martin said.
Napa County sheriff's Capt. Tracey Stuart said the
sheriff's office first responded to the situation at 8:42
a.m.
She said first responders initially thought the women
had been exposed to sulfur, but now believe it may have been pesticides
used by nearby vineyards.
Napa County fire crews decontaminated the two workers
before they were taken to Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa,
Martin said.
Stuart said the women were experiencing respiratory
problems.
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DALLAS
BOMB SQUAD SHIFTS CONTROL FROM POLICE TO FIRE
DEPARTMENT
Tags: us_TX, public, discovery, response,
picric_acid
DALLAS =E2=80=94 As they prepared last week for a
training session, members of the Dallas bomb squad took a "live" call.
Someone had discovered a decades-old first-aid kit that contained picric
acid.
Though it had beneficial military and medicinal uses
around World Wars I and II, the chemical becomes highly explosive when
it gets old and crystallizes. A Pennsylvania teenager blew off his hand
in 2003 when he mixed picric acid with other materials in what
authorities said then was a bomb-making attempt.
"We went
and got the chemical, took it out to our range and destroyed it," Dallas
bomb squad Sgt. Dennis Wilson said. "That's what we
do."
Exactly. When things blow up =E2=80=94 or are about to
=E2=80=94 the bomb squad gets the call.
But in
Dallas, it was the unit itself that nearly exploded.
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BOYS AND
GIRLS CLUB REOPENS AFTER CHLORINE GAS SPILL
Tags: Canada, public, release, injury,
chlorine
A Boys and Girls Club in Ottawa's west end has
reopened after a pool maintenance worker was sent to hospital after
exposure to chlorine gas Tuesday morning.
The
worker mistakenly mixed hydrochloric acid =E2=80=94 used as a cleaner
=E2=80=94 with another chemical, creating chlorine gas, according to
Marc Messier, a spokesman with Ottawa Fire Services.
A
hazardous materials team was sent to the club at 2825 DuMaurier Ave.
around 6:15 and ventilated the building.
The
worker was overcome by the fumes and treated on the scene by paramedics
who said he had a serious inhalation injury. The 57-year-old man was
taken to hospital but is expected to recover.
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AFFIDAVIT: SOME CHEMICALS IN MAKESHIFT LAB IN ANDERSON ARE
DECADES OLD
http://www.independentmail.com/news/201
1/jul/05/affidavit-some-chemicals-makeshift-lab-anderson-ar/Tags: us_SC, laboratory, discovery, response,
biodiesel, sodium_cyanide
ANDERSON =E2=80=94 An affidavit made public Tuesday
indicates that more than organic fuel was being formulated in a
primitive lab recently discovered in Anderson near Hartwell
Lake.
The affidavit says the owner of the property told
state investigators that while he was trying to make biodiesel, he was
also trying to make another chemical to sell, and was storing still
others that apparently date from the 1990s.
The
affidavit is part of a search warrant that the Independent Mail sought,
and was provided, under South Carolina=E2=80=99s Freedom of Information
Act.
The affidavit says that George Smolen, who owns the
former Flex-A-Form on Frontage Road, told state environmental officials
that he was trying to use sodium cyanide as a catalyst in a chemical
reaction to form another chemical, but that it "did not perform
as he had expected.="
Smolen also told investigators that he was working
with another chemical, whose identity he was uncertain about, to try to
extract crystals from it and sell them.
He told
investigators that he had acquired some sodium cyanide =E2=80=94 in
30-gallon and 50-gallon drums =E2=80=94 to repackage it "into
different quantities or amounts.="
A federal
coordinator discovered the makeshift lab in late June while he was in
the area to supervise the cleanup of an unrelated site nearby on Manse
Jolly Road. Crews from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control have been
working for a little more than a week to identify, catalog and clean up
hundreds of chemicals found in three warehouses and seeping onto the
property, which abuts the lake and stands only about 40 feet from
Interstate 85.
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HAZMAT
EMERGENCY CLOSES BAKERSFIELD ROADS
Tags: us_CA, industrial, explosion, response,
diammonium_peroxidisulphate
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. =E2=80=94 Golden State Highway was
closed Tuesday afternoon between Snow Road and 7th Standard Road as
hazmat crews responded to a reported explosion at the Schlumberger plant
on Snow Road.
See raw video from an Eyewitness News viewer
=E2=86=93
Snow Road was also closed between Fruitvale Avenue and
Golden State. That closure remained in effect as of 5:45 p.m. Tuesday,
though Golden State had reopened.
County fire and public
health crews were faced with a fire in a tank containing the oxidizing
chemical diammonium peroxidisulphate, which can be a skin and
respiratory irritant. The fire released a large plume of smoke.
The cause
of the fire was not immediately known.
Eyewitness News viewers reported hearing large explosions and
smelling sulfur, although fire crews said there were no
explosions.
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ABC NEWS
(AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
Tags: Australia, transportation, release, response,
corrosives, nitric_acid
A truck carrying a thousand litres of corrosive
liquids, including nitric acid, crashed on the Pacific Highway this
morning.
Chris Bishop, from Fire and Rescue NSW, says the spill
has been contained.
He says no evacuations were necessary, but breathing
equipment is being used.
"The only requirement at the moment is for people who
are up close," Mr Bishop said.
"We were monitoring that and
we had police located in the nearest residences which were, I believe,
about 150 yards away.
"We haven't needed to follow that path because there
was initial fuming but that's died down."
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UPDATE:
TWO ARRESTED AFTER METH LAB FOUND AT KNIGHTS INN
Tags: us_GA, public,
discovery, response, meth_lab
AUGUSTA, Ga. --- Two people are in custody after
Richmond County deputies discovered a meth lab at the Knights Inn on Boy
Scout Rd.
Deputies were called out to the scene around 11:15
p.m. Sunday night, after reports of a strong chemical smell coming from
room 237.
We're told deputies knocked on the door and saw two
individuals looking out the window. When they did not unlock the door,
management came and opened it.
That's when investigators
say a large cloud of smoke came out of the room.
Drug
enforcement agents, fire and hazmat crews were then called to the
scene.
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