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Table of Contents (5 articles)
HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS IN CARBON COUNTY AFTER DEPUTY FINDS TEAR GAS INGREDIENT ON US-6
Tags: us_ut, public, release, injury, other_chenical
STREET SWEEPINGS DEEMED WASTE BY REGULATOR
Tags: canada, public, discovery, enviromental, arsenic
CHEMICAL EXPOSURE IN EAST PALO ALTO HOSPITALIZES 1
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
FIREFIGHTERS BATTLE 'ORANGE CLOUD' PRODUCED IN CHEMICAL REACTION AT CAMBERLEY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
Tags: United_Kingdom, industrial, release, response, metals
KORONADAL SCHOOL FIRE DAMAGE PEGGED AT P5M
Tags: Philippines, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
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HAZMAT TEAM RESPONDS IN CARBON COUNTY AFTER DEPUTY FINDS TEAR GAS INGREDIENT ON US-6
Tags: us_ut, public, release, injury, other_chenical
CARBON COUNTY, Utah ‰?? Hazardous material responders were dispatched in Carbon County Sunday morning after a deputy saw debris in the road and then suffered symptoms after discarding it.
According to a press release from the Carbon County Sheriff‰??s Office, Deputy Hreinson called authorities around 9:50 p.m. to report he had found debris discarded in the middle of US Highway 6 near the Spring Glenn turn off.
After Hreinson had discarded the debris, ‰??he experienced concerning symptoms that required medical attention. He described his symptoms as respiratory distress, burning sensation and tingling in the extremities.‰??
Units from the Idaho Civil Support Team, the Utah 85th Civil Support Team, the Carbon County HazMat Team and the Utah Fire Marshal‰??s Office all responded to assist.
The contaminant was found to be a core casing with residual CS Gas, which the press release states is the main component in tear gas.
Police believe the casing fell off a vehicle traveling on US 6, but it has not been determined who was transporting the gas. The scene has since been cleared, and the contaminated object has been sent to the Utah Fire Marshal‰??s Office.
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STREET SWEEPINGS DEEMED WASTE BY REGULATOR
Tags: canada, public, discovery, enviromental, arsenic
The Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) recently issued an Order to the City of Mississauga (a City of 800,000 immediately west of Toronto) to remediate street sweeping it had distributed to a number of private and public enterprises as ‰??clean fill‰??. Testing by the MOECC determine the street sweepings had high concentration of arsenic and other contaminants that could be deemed dangerous to human health.
In the Order itself, the MOECC refers to its protocol titled Management of Excess Materials in Road Construction and Maintenance, dated July 22, 1994, allows for the management of street sweepings (called roadsweeping material and defined as ‰??sand/gravel/vehicle grit mixture resulting from winter maintenance operations, but does not include litter and abandoned material components‰??) in three ways:
Street Sweeping Disposal Practices date back to 2004
The events leading to the MOECC issuing the Order goes back to 2012. At that time the MOECC learned that the City of Mississauga had deposited Waste Street Sweepings as fill material on various properties located in southern Ontario.
Mississauga conducts street cleaning each spring, with road sweeper trucks, to collect materials that may have accumulated over the winter. In 2012, The City of Mississauga indicated to the MOECC that between 2004 and 2011, waste street sweepings were eventually brought back to the Mississauga works yard on Mavis Road in Mississauga where they were deposited and accumulated.
Prior to 2004, the City of Mississauga sent street sweepings to an approved landfill site. After 2004, the City of Mississauga informed the MOECC that it processed street sweepings by screening out debris, such as litter, and then deposited the material on properties including residential, commercial and agricultural properties upon the request of the owners of such properties.
In February 2012, Mississauga provided to the Ministry a report dated June 20, 2011, prepared by a consultant to assist Mississauga ‰??in determining disposal options for the material collected as street sweepings‰??. The report, based on the chemical testing of two samples collected on June 6, 2011 of street sweepings from Mississauga Mavis Work Yard, concluded that ‰??Based on the chemical test results, in our opinion the subject material may be shipped to any registered landfill site licensed to receive this category of waste‰??. The report did not recommend sending the street sweepings to any other location or that the sampled street sweepings could be reused for any other purposes.
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CHEMICAL EXPOSURE IN EAST PALO ALTO HOSPITALIZES 1
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, unknown_chemical
SOUTH BAY, CA -- Exposure to a household chemical used for opening clogged drains sent a man to the hospital and triggered a response from a hazardous materials team Thursday afternoon in East Palo Alto, a fire spokesman said.
Firefighters responded to a request for medical assistance by a man who was having trouble breathing around 1:30 p.m. on April 6 in the 800 block of Green Street, according to fire spokesman Mike Ralston.
Emergency crews noticed the potential for exposure to hazardous materials and pulled the victim out of the building. There were two other adults and an infant present, but they were unaffec
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FIREFIGHTERS BATTLE 'ORANGE CLOUD' PRODUCED IN CHEMICAL REACTION AT CAMBERLEY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
Tags: United_Kingdom, industrial, release, response, metals
Firefighters spent nearly five hours battling to control the aftermath of a chemical reaction in an industrial estate in Camberley .
The reaction produced a "chemical cloud" of "orange cloud forms", described one firefighter who attended scene.
Firefighters from Camberley were called to Farnborough Metal Finishing Ltd, in Lawrence Way, at 6.04am on Friday (April 7).
Two fire engines, one Detection, Information and Monitoring (DIM) vehicle, one Environmental Protection Unit (EPU) vehicle and two hazardous material (HAZMAT) officers attended the incident.
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KORONADAL SCHOOL FIRE DAMAGE PEGGED AT P5M
Tags: Philippines, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/07 April) ‰?? Around P5 million worth of equipment and facilities were destroyed after another huge fire gutted down a laboratory building of a technical-vocational college in Koronadal City on Thursday night.
Fire Sr. Insp. Reginald Legaste, Koronadal City fire marshal, said the fire started at around 6 p.m. in one of the classrooms at the two-storey laboratory building of the Marbel Institute of Technical College (MITC) along Alunan Avenue in Barangay Zone 4.
He said no one was reported hurt in the incident, which was declared under control by the Bureau of Fire Protection about 40 minutes later.
Firefighters and volunteers from the Koronadal City, Tantangan and Banga fire stations and the KCC Mall fire brigade responded to the scene, he said.
‰??Our investigation is still ongoing as to the actual origin and cause of the fire but there were indications that it could have been due to faulty electrical wiring,‰?? he said in a radio interview.
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