Everdry was used to soak-up some of the leaked chemical.
Fire personnel say th
ey heard explosions and also smelled a strange chemical odor coming from ins
ide the trailer. The Flathead County Sheriff's Department later discovered t
hat medical marijuana cardholders had been attempting to convert marijuana i
nto hash.
Butane, which is a highly flammable
substance, was used in this illegal conversion process, and is believed to b
e responsible for sparking the fire and explosions. Investigators say incide
nts like this one are becoming more common in the Flathead Valley.
"We've seen an increasing number of marijuana-related i
ncidents and fires as you can imagine, and it's relatively out of control," c
ommented Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry.
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=E2=9C=AD Fire in Dr Reddy's plant; 2 killed - Times O
f India
Two workers were charred to death in a fire at Dr Re
ddy's Laboratories (DRL) plant at Bollarum in Medak district on Thursday nig
ht. The fire broke out in the material-handling lift area at G Block in the u
nit's chemical manufacturing facility at Bolarum at 10.50 pm on Thursday nig
ht. The deceased, K Govind Rao, 34, of Srikakulam district and D Keshava, 24
, of Vizianagaram district were casual workers, police said. Both were resid
ents of Lakshminagar, Bollarum.
Meanwhile, DR
L officials said the exact cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained as im
mediate shut down of the G Block was carried out for safety reasons. The fir
e was contained within the host area and was subsequently put out by the pla
nt personnel using the fire fighting equipment, the official said. Police ha
ve registered a case under Section 304 A (causing death by negligence) again
st the DRL management, the officer added.
This is the second fire incident at the pharma major's plant in t
he past three months. Two DRL employees were killed in a fire mishap in Dece
mber last. According to a senior police officer, Govind Rao and Keshava were
shifting materials in the lift attached to Unit I when electrical sparks le
d to the blaze which spread rapidly. The two got stuck in the lift and were b
urnt to death.
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=E2=9C
=AD Bomb Unit Called For WWI Chemical Found Inside Safe - Denver News Story -
KMGH Denver
A worker at Willow Stone Antiques found two sea
led glass tubes inside an antique safe that he believed contained nitroglyce
rin.
Investigators determined the tubes were attached to the
backside of the safe door as part of an aftermarket burglary deterrent, pol
ice said.
An Internet search found the glass tubes likely co
ntained CS or CN tear gas or chloropicrin, a World War I chemical agent, pol
ice said.
The bomb unit responded. Using a thermal chemical a
nalyzer, officers said they determined the substance was chloropicrin.
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=E2=9C=AD Lebanon s
chool evacuated due to chemical fumes - 13 WTHR
Lebanon - St
udents at a Lebanon school were forced to evacuate due to chemical fumes in t
he building Friday.
All of the students at Ce
ntral Elementary School are safe, the school said.
The school called 911 at 12:23 pm to report that fumes had entered the
building, causing some students to feel sick. An evacuation was already in p
rogress.
The Lebanon Fire Department later de
termined that solvent fumes from roof maintenance had somehow entered the bu
ilding's air handling system.
19 students wer
e checked by EMS at the scene for minor complaints of sore throat, headache a
nd nausea. None were transported from the scene and they were allowed to rej
oin their classes.
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=E2=9C=AD Explosive Fire Rocks Detroit Warehouse - Detroit Local News S
tory - WDIV Detroit
Firefighters said they heard several exp
losions coming from the building. Fire crews had their hands full as heavy f
lames and smoke could be seen for miles. However, firefighters were unable t
o enter the building because of the possibility of chemical concerns from wh
at was in the plant.
The business recycles and processes met
als.
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=E2=9C=AD Fi
re at chemical godown | chemical solvent godown | eedimetla Industrial Devel
opment Area (IDA) | Indian Express
HYDERABAD: A major fire e
rupted in a chemical solvent godown, said to be an unauthorised one, in Jeed
imetla yesterday. There were no casualties or injuries reported but the prop
erty loss is suspected to run into several lakhs of rupees, police and fire s
ervices personnel said.
They added that they are yet to esta
blish who were running the godown illegaly.
The fire took pl
ace in Ram Reddy Nagar near the Jeedimetla Industrial Development Area (IDA)
. According to officials, the fire might have broken out due to a short circ
uit or when the huge quantity of solvents that were stored there fell on the
ground during shifting. "It was a small godown but huge quantity of
highly inflammable solvents were stored in it,=" an official said.
The fire control room was alerted around 1.30 p.m and one fir
e tender each from Jeedimetla, Sanathnagar and Moula Ali rushed to the place
.
They battled for more than five hours to bring the flames u
nder control as thick smoke emanated from the godown adding to the difficult
ies of the fire fighters.
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=AD Hospital access blocked on cyanide scare | Calgary & Alberta | News |
Calgary Sun
Concerns of cyanide exposure forced fire offici
als to temporarily block access to the Peter Lougheed Centre hospital Saturd
ay night.
Police said a man moseyed in just a
fter 7 p.m. carrying a container he claimed was filled with cyanide =E2=80=94
a chemical compound used for various applications, but more commonly known a
s an effective killing agent.
"He jus
t wanted to know where to put it, he didn=E2=80=99t know what to do with it,
=" said Insp. Jim Rorison.
The Calgary
Fire Department dispatched a hazardous materials team that partially blocke
d entry to the hospital while they investigated.
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=E2=9C=AD Fuel truck spills thousands g
allons gas in Idaho - U.S. news - Life -
msnbc.
com BOISE, Idaho =E2=80=94 The Idaho State Police say a t
anker truck crashed on Interstate 84 in southwestern Idaho, critically injur
ing the driver, spilling thousands of gallons of gasoline and closing a 13-m
ile stretch of the westbound lanes for about nine hours.
The
patrol says the semi was eastbound and negotiating a curve east of Mountain
Home at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday when the tanker went off the left shoulde
r of the road, down a slope into the median and overturned.
The driver, 39-year-old Danny Guntrum of Nampa, was taken by air ambulance t
o St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. The nursing supervisor sai
d he was critical condition Thursday morning.
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=E2=9C=AD Diesel Spill Cleaned Up, Ro
ad Re-opened |
digtriad.com <
div>Greensboro, NC -- Greensboro Police responded to a crash involving a tra
ctor trailer and a vehicle that was pulling a trailer just at 6:32 am Thursd
ay.
Some lanes on I-40 West near MLK Drive an
d Patton Avenue were closed for several hours. A tractor trailer spilled die
sel fuel and hazmat teams were called to clean it up.
Police say the truck was carrying about 100 gallons at the time of t
he crash. Parts of the concrete barriers were also knocked out.
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=E2=9C=AD WWI chemical
found inside old safe |
NewsFirst5.com | Colorado Springs | Pueblo |
Police officers were called t
o an an antique store at 1710 Dublin this morning when someone found two gla
ss tubes inside an old safe.
Originally the p
erson who found them thought they could be nitroglycerin, an explosive.
;
An investigation showed the tubes contained chlor
opicrin, a World War I chemical agent. The chemical causes vomiting. They tu
bes were apparently used as a burglary deterrent.
Employees at Willow Stone Antiques were given instructions from the Haz
Mat team on how to dispose of the chemical.
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=E2=9C=AD Two killed in Dombivli chemical fact
ory blaze - The Times of India
DOMBIVLI: Two persons were ki
lled and three injured in a fire at the Gharda Chemicals Ltd, MIDC, in Dombi
vli, on Thursday.
Thirty workers were in the p
esticide manufacturing unit's plant 4 when there was a huge explosion at 1.4
5 pm. Helpers G R Rathod and R V Pardeshi succumbed on the spot due to 100% b
urn injuries, while Dattatre Parul, Nilesh Madvi and Mahesh Tarade were take
n to Hambarde hospital with burn injuries. Parul is in a serious condition.&
nbsp;
The fire brigade control room, which got a ca
ll around 1.45 pm, sent nine engines which took around 45 minutes to reach d
ue to heavy traffic.
It took two hours for th
e fire brigade, along with help from experts from the company, to douse the f
lames at Gharda, one of the biggest chemical units in Thane district.
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=E2=9C=AD 40 evacuated a
fter chemical spill at Mesa business
Fire officials were cal
led to manufacturing plant Thursday afternoon with report of leaking chemica
ls, officials said.
Crews from Mesa, Tempe, C
handler, Gilbert and Phoenix were called to mitigate the potential hazards a
t the International Rectifier manufacturing facility near Extension and Base
line roads around 2 p.m.
Mesa Fire Department
spokesman Forrest Smith said that a line carrying a liquid regularly used i
n semiconductor industry had sprung a leak inside the building.
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After the release of the chemical, the system shut itself
down and sounded a warning to employees, Smith said.
