Archive for HazMat
Officials: Ruptured disk at plant caused odor in Cohoes – Troy Record
Officials: Ruptured disk at plant caused odor in CohoesTroy RecordCOHOES — City officials are stressing, first and foremost, that there is no health hazard following last night's chemical incident at the Norlite Lightweight Aggregate plant off of Saratoga Avenue. A ruptured disk in one of the chemical tanks led to ...and more »
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The Reality Behind the West Explosion: It… – Dallas Observer (blog)
The Reality Behind the West Explosion: It...Dallas Observer (blog)The firemen did not know quantities of a dangerous explosive chemical were stored in the plant for two reasons: 1) Texas is one of only four states in the union that lack a statewide fire code, and 2) Texas has made it against the law for smaller ...
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Recycler plans for next step after fire – Albany Times Union
Recycler plans for next step after fireAlbany Times UnionA company spokesman said TCI is considering three other sites, including returning to Ghent, where its entire facility was consumed in a stubborn overnight fire Aug. 1-2, 2012, that sparked fears of hazardous chemical contamination. TCI has not ...
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'First Look': First News for Aug. 1 – Bakersfield Californian
'First Look': First News for Aug. 1Bakersfield CalifornianThe call Eidenshink was responding to was a medical emergency. Read the full story here. TEEN GIRL: A teenage girl who had been missing for more than a week says she stayed at her cousin's house in Oildale and was not in the company of a convicted ...
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Chemical Leak Prompts Evacuation Of Sequoyah County Courthouse – News On 6
Chemical Leak Prompts Evacuation Of Sequoyah County CourthouseNews On 6Chemical Leak Prompts Evacuation Of Sequoyah County Courthouse. Posted: Thursday, August 1, 2013 5:23 PM EST. Updated: Thursday, August 1, 2013 5:23 PM EST. KFSM. Photo of police on the scene at the Sequoyah County Courthouse via KFSM.and more »
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Obama orders review of chemical plant rules in wake of West fertilizer explosion – Dallas Morning News
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Obama orders review of chemical plant rules in wake of West fertilizer explosionDallas Morning NewsThe West Volunteer Fire Department did not have an emergency plan for a fire at the plant, according to information obtained in an open records request filed by The Dallas Morning News. The department's dozens of volunteer firefighters reportedly did ...Obama Orders Review Of Chemical Plant Rules After West, Texas ExplosionHuffington Postall 5 news articles »
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D'Amato: All cities need a rail-safety strategy – Waterloo Record
D'Amato: All cities need a rail-safety strategyWaterloo RecordThe resulting explosions and fire killed 47 people. The town was turned into a kind of war zone. The cleanup costs are $7.8 million and counting (and, to add insult to injury, those costs are being borne by the town while the railway company dickers ...and more »
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Chemical leak mystery as bodies of man and woman discovered in Edinburgh's … – Herald Scotland
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Chemical leak mystery as bodies of man and woman discovered in Edinburgh's ...Herald ScotlandChemical leak mystery as bodies of man and woman discovered in Edinburgh's Scotsman Hotel. Thursday 1 August 2013. A man and woman have been found dead in a room at The Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh. A man and woman have been found dead in ...and more »
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Obama Orders Review Of Chemical Plant Rules After West, Texas Explosion – Huffington Post
Obama Orders Review Of Chemical Plant Rules After West, Texas ExplosionHuffington PostA person looks on as emergency workers fight a house fire after a nearby fertilizer plant exploded Wednesday, April 17, 2013, in West, Texas. A massive explosion at the fertilizer plant near Waco on Wednesday night injured dozens of people and sent ...and more »
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Port hazmat workers: we need medical benefits! – People's World
Port hazmat workers: we need medical benefits!People's WorldImagine cleaning chemicals off barges, large tank containers, as hazmat workers or ship scalers do, without the proper suit that protects from the specific chemicals they are attempting to clean. "We work with dangerous chemicals. We have no benefits ...
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Hazmat crews investigate mystery bags in parking lot
Officials in Monclova Township are trying to figure out what's in a few mysterious bags that were left in a parking lot.
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City personnel, recruits train with hazmat material
City personnel from several departments and fire recruits received instruction on hazmat operations Monday morning at Fire Station 5. Edmond Fire Dep
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Teens Wreck, Cause Small Chemical Leak After Killeen Car Chase – KCEN-TV
Teens Wreck, Cause Small Chemical Leak After Killeen Car ChaseKCEN-TVTeens Wreck, Cause Small Chemical Leak After Killeen Car Chase. Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 3:20 PM EST. Updated: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 6:31 PM EST. Four teenagers are safe but in hot water after taking Killeen cops on a wild ride through ...and more »
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Decommisioning work sparks fire – Irish Independent
Irish Independent
Decommisioning work sparks fireIrish IndependentSPARKS from cutting equipment being used to decommission a chemical plant in Swords caused a major fire last week that shut down Watery Lane as smoke filled the air in the county capital. ... spill into a drain which was subsequently set alight by ...and more »
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Disaster Drill Today at Mercy – OzarksFirst.com
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Disaster Drill Today at MercyOzarksFirst.comIf you see more emergency teams around Springfield's Mercy Hospital than usual today, there's a good reason for it. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- If you see more emergency teams around ... The scenario being used is how to respond to the injured from a chemical ...
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Bittersweet 50th anniversary for Canada's Sea King helicopters – CBC.ca
Bittersweet 50th anniversary for Canada's Sea King helicoptersCBC.caMay 24, 1963: RCN Lt.-Commanders Shel Rowell and Ted Fallen accept Canada's first Sea King at the Sikorsky plant in Stratford, Conn., where the first four Canadian Sea Kings were built. The other 37 were assembled at United Aircraft of Canada Ltd. (now ...
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Florida Gas Plant Explosions: Workers Found
An investigation is launched after explosions at a propane plant in Florida, as officials confirm all workers have survived.
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Medical researcher apprehended after wife dies of cyanide poisoning
Neuroscientist will not fight extradition in wife's death from cyanide: In April, Dr. Autumn Klein, a well-known neurologist at the University of Pittsburgh, died of cyanide poisoning. Last week he...
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BNSF offers hazardous materials training – The Columbian
BNSF offers hazardous materials trainingThe ColumbianEmergency responders gathered at the BNSF Railway Vancouver terminal on Tuesday to train for a situation they hope never to face: responding to a release of hazardous materials from a freight train. About 50 people from both Washington and Oregon ...
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Fire crews called to Reading Crematorium after filter system leaks – Reading Post
Fire crews called to Reading Crematorium after filter system leaksReading PostCrews from Caversham Road, Dee Road and Whitley Wood stations received a call for a suspected chemical leak at the crematorium, in All Hallows Road, Caversham, at about 5.20pm. Staff at the crematorium - operated by Reading Borough Council - had ...and more »
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Nobody hurt in Houston-area chemical plant fire – MiamiHerald.com
Nobody hurt in Houston-area chemical plant fireMiamiHerald.comLA PORTE, Texas -- Emergency officials say nobody has been hurt in a Houston-area chemical plant fire blamed on an electrical problem. A spokesman for Oxy Vinyls in La Porte says the fire Monday afternoon involved an issue with an electric utility at ...
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Video: 10 workers missing after explosions rock Florida gas plant – The Province
Video: 10 workers missing after explosions rock Florida gas plantThe ProvinceA series of gas explosions at a chemical plant in Lake County, Florida has injured multiple people and forced the evacuation of residents miles away. Witnesses said vibrations from the high blasts could be felt several towns over. ... Arial footage of ...and more »
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Why Verizon Has Its Own HAZMAT Team
Since 9/11, the company has been as prepared for a disaster crisis as government first responders.
Safety Training Through HAZWOPER Certification
Facility safety training should incorporate processes, procedures, and HAZWOPER training applicable to hazardous material interactions and disposal.
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Palm Beach Lakes Home Depot bomb scare: FBI, bomb squad, HAZMAT and Fire Rescue crews on scene
A West Palm Beach Fire Batallion Chief has confirmed that HAZMAT crews along with West Palm Beach Fire Rescue units, the West Palm Beach bomb squad and officials from the FBI are at the Home Depot on Palm Beach Lakes Blvd.
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Higher lymphoma risk for those living close to benzene-releasing sites … – MedCity News
Higher lymphoma risk for those living close to benzene-releasing sites ...MedCity NewsFor the new study, Flowers and his colleagues combined information on chemical release sites in Georgia between 1988 and 1998 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and data from a state cancer registry from 1999 to 2008 as well as the 2000 ...
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Home distance from benzene sites linked to lymphoma risk – Reuters
Home distance from benzene sites linked to lymphoma riskReutersFor the new study, Flowers and his colleagues combined information on chemical release sites in Georgia between 1988 and 1998 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and data from a state cancer registry from 1999 to 2008 as well as the 2000 ...
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Fife, Washington manufacturer failed to notify emergency responders of … – KIVI-TV
Fife, Washington manufacturer failed to notify emergency responders of ...KIVI-TVFife, Washington manufacturer failed to notify emergency responders of hazardous chemical release. By James Cramer. CREATED 1:19 PM. Tweet; Share; Email; Print. A company in Washington has agreed to pay $50,805 in federal penalties after releasing ...
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HAZMAT crew, bomb squad investigate alleged chemical use in Nashville
A man allegedly wanting to harm himself using a knife and chemicals got the attention of Metro Police, Hazmat crews and the bomb squad Saturday.
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Canadian rail company MIA with rail disaster cleanup costs
As officials in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, seek out payment from Montreal, Maine & Atlantic (MMA) railway for workers cleaning up millions of litres of spilled crude oil, Canada’s federal government has announced a $60-million fund...
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Evacuation order lifted, water warning in effect after Slocan Valley fuel spill – Globalnews.ca
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Evacuation order lifted, water warning in effect after Slocan Valley fuel spillGlobalnews.caHazmat crews are in B.C.'s Slocan Valley Saturday frantically working to contain a fuel spill that forced thousands of people from their homes. A state of emergency was declared and a mandatory evacuation order was in effect for thousands of residents ...Evacuation lifted, residents returnCastanet.net1500 BC residents under evacuation order after jet fuel spill in Slocan ValleyGlobe and Read more [...]
West Deptford resident worried about water gets the run-around from township … – The Bridgeton News – NJ.com
West Deptford resident worried about water gets the run-around from township ...The Bridgeton News - NJ.comAs a West Deptford resident, he went to his hometown mayor's office at the municipal building, but was told by someone at the front desk that his issue could be originating from the site of the train derailment and chemical release in Paulsboro and ...
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Joe Schwarcz: Dangerous chemical paraxylene has a wide array of uses – Montreal Gazette
Montreal Gazette
Joe Schwarcz: Dangerous chemical paraxylene has a wide array of usesMontreal GazetteStill, no matter what safeguards are put into practice, the possibility of some sort of inadvertent chemical release cannot be discounted. That, of course, is the case not only for paraxylene, but also for the hundreds of other chemicals that are ...
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Updated: Car Crashes, Burns in McAleer Creek – Patch.com
Updated: Car Crashes, Burns in McAleer CreekPatch.comContaminated sediment at the site was cleaned up, but it is likely that petroleum, fire byproducts, fire response chemicals and other engine fluids contaminated the stream, said Public Works Superintendent Scott Walker. The city reported the chemical ...and more »
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Hampton, VA marina experiences fuel spill
Officials say about 15 to 20 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into the waters of Downtown Hampton's marina Thursday.
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