A semi trailer burst into flames on the lot of a shipping service center in Salt Lake City on Thursday morning.

Firefighters say that when they arrived on scene of the fire, located near 1900 South Industrial Road (1900 West), at around 10 a.m., the semi was fully engulfed in flames.

Investigators say there was an acid spill during the truck’s previous run and the chemicals used to clean the spill combined, causing heat that ignited the fire. Firefighters were able to put out the blaze and no one was injured.

“The chemicals combined, produced a lot of heat and when the new load was put on, there’s a spontaneous combustion that produced a fire,” said Jason Asay, Salt Lake City Fire Dept.

A hazmat team was called in to clean up possible hazardous substances, but the cargo only contained packages of batteries and baby food.

A construction worker fell through a rotted roof into an acid tank in New Jersey on Monday, suffering severe burns before his co-worker jumped in to pull him out, officials said.

The second man was also burned, but less severely.

The men were working for a roofing company to replace the roof at 1 Clifton Boulevard in Clifton, N.J.

Fire officials said the first worker fell through the weakened part of the roof into the tank below, which was used for cleaning steel.

He suffered burns from head to foot, and was not responsive when rescuers arrived, officials said. His co-worker who jumped in also had signs of burns but was more lucid after the fall and was able to rinse himself off.

He was taken to the hospital along with the first man.

Three other workers also helped the two acid-soaked men. They were also taken to the hospital.

Clifton fire officials said the building work had no permits and was being investigated.

The contents of a white canister that witnesses report was thrown from the window of a vehicle today on Lancaster Avenue in Ardmore are confirmed to be acid, Lower Merion Fire Chief Chas McGarvey told news media around 5:30 p.m. today.

According to witnesses, shortly before 2 p.m. on Thursday a white gallon container was thrown from the window of a vehicle driving on Lancaster Avenue and began vaporizing, McGarvey said.

William Mulgrew didn’t see the canister thrown from the vehicle, but he did call 911.

“I saw this plume of white fog—it was huge—and it was blurring everybody’s vision,” Mulgrew said.

Mulgrew called 911 around 2 p.m.

"At first I thought it was a prank from some kid, but when I saw how much stuff was coming out of it, I didn't feel right about it, not knowing what kind of fumes it was giving off. It was a giant white plume of smoke... and what bothered me is people were standing there looking at it—cars were driving through it," he said.

Police, fire and Montgomery County HAZMAT officials arrived on the scene shortly, blocking off Lancaster Avenue on a quarter-mile stretch from Greenfield Avenue to South Wyoming Avenue until after 6 p.m. Some traffic was redirected to Montgomery Avenue.

MANHATTAN, KS (KCTV) -
Three student employees were taken to the hospital after an acid vapor incident at Kansas State's Weber Hall on Monday.

Firefighters and K-State's public safety team cleaned up an acid vapor in Weber Hall around 8:30 a.m. Monday.

University officials said an acid vapor was created after a student worker improperly mixed together two cleaning chemicals in the meats lab in Weber Hall.

Weber Hall houses the department of animal sciences and industry.

Officials said the mixture caused an acid vapor that irritates the eyes and mucus membrane of the lungs.

The student, along with two other students who walked through the room and another who smelled the mixture in an adjacent room, were all taken to the hospital for examination.

Crews evacuated Weber Hall to ventilate the building, and the building was approved for re-entry around 11:15 a.m.

A toxic chemical explosion that sparked the evacuation of a university building has been cleaned up.

A corrosive combination of sulphuric, nitric and hydrochloric acids exploded in a cupboard in the University of Queensland's chemical building on Friday morning, the Department of Community Safety says.

The leaking chemical fumes sparked the evacuation of staff and students from the nine-storey building in St Lucia, in Brisbane's inner west.

A DCS spokesman says firefighters have cleaned up the site and atmospheric tests show the area is safe.

A WOMAN has been taken to hospital with minor acid burns after a chemical spill at a Wattle Grove school.

Shortly after noon today firefighters from Liverpool and the Hazardous Material Unit from Chester Hill were called to a chemical spill at the St Marks Coptic College on Australis Ave.

An Ambulance NSW spokeswoman confirmed a woman, aged in her 50s, suffered acid burns to an arm and leg.

A FACTORY stocked with hazardous chemicals burst into flames last night in what was the second fire on the premises in a week.

The inferno reached about 30 metres into the air and destroyed the entire 3,500 square metre building on Christie Street, St. Marys after starting about 12.30am.

The factory worked reconditioning drums filled with flammable chemicals and acids.

NSW Fire Department is investigating the incident after last night's blaze was the second fire at the business in a week.

A burst pipe in a laboratory at 900 Princess St. caused a chemical spill late Sunday morning.

Kingston Fire and Rescue reported that water from the pipe flooded tanks filled with potentially hazardous acids. The area was evacuated and specialists were summoned.

Crews from Utilities Kingston were called to inspect the sewers and it was determined that the large volume of water diluted the chemicals to the point where they were environmentally benign.

— The Whig-Standard

RENTON, Wash. -- Hazardous materials crews were busy early Wednesday morning dealing with a double semi truck that overturned on a Renton freeway.

Troopers say the truck was going from SR-167 onto the northbound lanes of I-405 just before 2 a.m. when it took the corner too fast and the rear trailer overturned.

The truck was carrying cleaning supplies and acid and could have been quite a mess had the chemicals leaked and mixed, but luckily the contents didn't rupture.

LAFARGEVILLE — A chemical spill in the hamlet Friday released no chemicals into the environment, according to officials from the Department of Environmental Conservation.

In a release from the department, officials were called around 3:22 p.m. Friday about a spill taking place at Crowley Foods, a division of HP Hood, LLC, Route 411.

According to the release, 300 gallons of mixed sulfuric and nitric acid and 100 gallons of sodium hydroxide and caustic acid leaked into a secondary container of their respective tanks.

Plant personnel planned to pump the product back into its original tank and use the chemicals before

Cleanup crews are getting rid of a large pool of acid from an overnight fire and chemical spill in West Fargo.

Someone driving by spotted the fire at K&K Galvanizing just after 10:30 last night, and firefighters knew right away they were dealing with corrosive acids and chemicals. The company uses them to galvanize metals.

The initial response focused on containing any spill and preventing contamination to areas around the building.

The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division hit Precision Castparts with a $600 citation for two “serious” violations on Wednesday.

OR-OSHA completed its inspection of Precision Castparts in Milwaukie following a May 12 emergency at the plant, finding that employees were exposed to unnecessary breathing hazards and weren't properly trained.

Clackamas Fire District No. 1, Portland Fire & Rescue and area police bureaus raced to the Clackamas County line outside of Precision Castparts on Southeast Johnson Creek Boulevard in the late afternoon the day before. An orange-colored cloud rose from the plant a little after 5:30 p.m., causing a burning sensation in the eyes of neighbors.

A power surge hit the plant as workers dipped a 700-pound piece of titanium into a chemical bath containing hydrofluoric and nitric acids. This process cleans silica off the titanium, which causes off-gassing of the chemicals.

Officials found that positive-pressure, self-contained breathing apparatus were not worn by employees engaged in emergency response. They also found that the employer did not provide proper training, resulting in two electricians going into the hot zone of the mill to switch the power feed.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board releases a final report on an explosion in a Texas Tech chemistry lab that seriously injured a graduate student in January 2010.

Recommendations announced in a live webcast include expanding measures to address and control physical safety hazards and implementing an incident and near-miss reporting system.


Texas Tech's Vice President for Research, Taylor Eighmy, says all of the agency's recommendations will be followed.


He says since the accident, hundreds of previous deficiencies have been addressed.


“The fact that we had 1660 in this department at that time suggests that there was a huge issue at play,” Eighmy said. “We just went back earlier this year and went back through all the laboratories again in that department and we had 125 deficiencies. That's getting better. Much, much, much better. But it's not perfect.”


Dr. Eighmy said Friday's small explosion in another chemistry lab shows the need for continuing improvement.


Tech released new details about that incident.


According to a statement, employees of a chemical production company had been working in that laboratory, which was unoccupied at the time.


The explosion sprayed dilute acids onto the floor, prompting a hazmat team response.

This news release from Texas Tech about last Friday's lab accident in the chemistry and biochemistry department at the university:

At about 5:30 p.m. on Friday (Oct. 14), a small explosion occurred in Room 332 in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Building on the Texas Tech University campus. The laboratory was unattended, no one was hurt, and the explosion occurred in a working laboratory hood. The building was evacuated. Lubbock Fire Department and its hazmat team responded and cleaned up the acid that sprayed onto the floor of the laboratory. The building was opened about two hours later.

 

The accident is being formally investigated by the Texas Tech Office of Environmental Health and Safety and outside experts. The laboratories associated with the work have been locked down to facilitate the investigation. The precise cause of the explosion is not known, but it appears to involve two large glass bottles, each reportedly containing dilute acids (one with nitric, one with acetic) that were adjacent to each other on the left side of the hood. There were two roto-evaporation apparatus on the right side of the hood that were not damaged, but the explosion did crack the base surface of the hood and scatter glass throughout the lab.

 

The laboratory was being used solely by employees of an organic chemical production company. This company has a contractual research relationship with a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The laboratory hood where the explosion occurred was being used for an organic compound crystallization, but it appears that this reaction had no role in the explosion. The Texas Tech investigation of the accident will be released upon its completion.

Two University of Maryland students were injured Monday in the College Park campus’s Chemistry Building when a chemical reaction caused an explosion and small fire in the lab where they were working.

The two women were taken to a hospital with first-degree chemical burns and minor lacerations but were in good condition, Prince George’s County fire department spokesman Mark Brady said. The explosion occurred during an afternoon chemistry class as students were working with nitric and sulfuric acid.

“Typically these are friendly acids that work well together, but when they dumped the chemicals into a chemical waste container, that was what caused the explosion and fire,” Mr. Brady said.

The four-story building was evacuated after the explosion and a small fire were reported on the third floor at about 12:30 p.m. University employees attempted to extinguish the fire before smoke and vapor drove them out of the lab, Mr. Brady said. Firefighters who responded to the lab were quickly able to extinguish the fire.

About 11 people were in the lab when the fire broke out, but only the two students were injured.

A Lincoln University staff member was treated for acid burns to his face after a chemical spill on campus this afternoon.

Emergency services rushed to what was initially reported as an explosion at the Lincoln campus shortly before 3pm.

A St John spokesman said a man was taken to Christchurch Hospital emergency department for treatment.

Altogether five fire appliances, two ambulances, two rapid response vehicles and police arrived at the scene.

However, Lincoln vice-chancellor Roger Field said the nitiric acid spill had caused only minor burns and the staff member was decontaminated in an emergency shower.

"There was a loss of containment but it has now been neutralised," Field said.

Field said there was no explosion. "There were fumes in the air but certainly no fire or flames."

The spill was in a science laboratory in the Hilgendorf Wing.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif- Two city of Santa Cruz workers were in their garbage truck when they say that a white cloud enveloped their truck and they could not breathe.

Santa Cruz Fire was dispatched to the scene around 6:30 AM. Firefighters isolated the area around the truck. Santa Cruz Police closed streets to traffic and pedestrians in the area of Sumner and Darwin.

Firefighters used PH paper to determine that the white substance was an acid. The acid was neutralized with Sodium Bicarbonate and the truck was driven to the city's landfill to dispose of the contents.

A Fife distillery was evacuated and shut down after 10,000 litres of acid leaked from a tank.

The spillage at the Diageo Distillery in Cameron Bridge, near Leven in Fife, was caused by a leak in a process storage tank.

Fire brigade and emergency services were called to the scene at 5.30am on Monday. The alarm was raised following the discovery of a leak from a 28,000 litre tank.

Diageo said the plant has been safely shut down while emergency services tackle the incident. Nearby residents have been advised to keep their doors and windows closed as a precaution.

The chemical is an acid-based cleaning product widely used in the food and beverage industries.

Charlotte County Fire and Emergency Services responded today to an acid spill at the Charlotte County campus of Edison State College.

Fire department spokeswoman Dee Hawkins said a bottle of hydrochloric acid fell and broke while Edison State College staff were moving cabinets.

Edison staff evacuated the building as a precautionary measure and called emergency crews.

There were no reported injuries during the incident, which occurred around 9:28 a.m.

A health sciences building was evacuated as a hazmat crew responded to clean up the spill.

No students were inside the room when the spill occurred.

One class that was supposed to be held in the building was moved, but no other classes were impacted.

The acid has been cleaned, and the building has been reopened.

One man is killed and another injured Wednesday morning when a tractor-trailer failed to stop at a intersection in Berkshire County.
    
The accident happened at Taconic Trail and Cold Spring Road, in Williamstown.
   
Williamstown police tell NewsChannel 13 the tractor trailer went through the barriers at A-Frame Bakery then slammed into the woods.
     
A Hazmat team was called because the tractor-trailer was carrying an acid used in lotions.
     
Authorities say the spilled chemical is not toxic.

WEYMOUTH, Mass. -- Firefighters were called back to a chemical testing company in Weymouth late Tuesday night after a fire ignited inside the building.

The fire broke out about an hour after a hazardous materials crew left, believing they had cleaned up a chemical spill.

“We believe it’s some type of acid,” said Deputy Chief Richard Chase of the Weymouth Fire Department. “We were able to see visibly through a window…that the product’s leaking out of a glass container inside a cardboard box, dripping onto the floor.”

Just before 6 p.m., four employees inside Ameri-Sci, a company that tests chemicals, smelled something burning. When they went to check it out, they saw a big vapor cloud and ran outside.

Fire officials do not believe the workers were exposed to any harmful chemicals.

“They were all checked out by…an ambulance and no one had any ill effects,” said Chase. “Basically when they saw the vapor cloud they knew it was a bad sign.”

A minor chemical spill resulted in the evacuation and temporary closure of the Vandalia Rec Center last Thursday. The trouble started a little bit after 8 a.m. when some Muriatic acid that was being transferred from a large contain to a small container via a pumping mechanism accidentally leaked on to the ground. Vandalia Communications Manager Rich Hopkins elaborated on the details of the mishap.

"Somehow, the hose connecting the large container to the small container became dislodged," Hopkins said. "Whenever you're working with corrosive chemicals like Muriatic acid, you run the risk of that happening."

Muriatic acid is a powerful inorganic acid that is produced through the absorption of hydrogen chloride in water.

It is among one of the most corrosive acids and is used to etch concrete, clean brick, and purify swimming pools.

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Three people were treated following an acid spill in west Charlotte Monday afternoon.

The incident occurred on Rozzelles Ferry Road near Hovis Road around 3:30 p.m.

According to the Charlotte Fire Department, the HazMat team was called to the scene to neutralize an acid spill.

There was no need for evacuations and the situation posed no danger to the community, a fire official said.

Three patients with non-life-threatening injuries were taken by MEDIC to Presbyterian Hospital.

The Alexandria Hazardous Materials Team responded to a leak at the GenOn plant Wednesday morning due to a report of a leaking sulfuric acid tank.

The plant is located at 1400 N. Royal Street and the intersection of Bashford Lane and North Royal Street was closed along with a part of the Mount Vernon bike trail as a precautionary measure, according to the Fire Department.

Alexandria City and Arlington County HazMat Team members put on protective equipment, entered site and determined there was no active leak or fumes emitting from the area around 1:53 a.m. The 15 x 20 containment basin leaked an estimated 1,300 gallon of product from the storage tank..

On March 16, at 3:45 p.m., two semi trucks collided in front of Fiesta Mart in Chouteau. One of the trucks was carrying battery acid while the other was carrying cleaning chemicals. The combination of the two spills caused a chemical reaction that put off a smokeless fume.

When Chouteau Fire Department arrived, Brandon along with fellow firefighter Troy Schopp went around the right side of the wreck to check the scene. Brandon said about 10 minutes later when they went to move the fire truck upwind from the scene, Schopp began to complain that he couldn’t breathe.

“I couldn’t catch my breath. It felt like someone was strangling you,” Schopp said.

Schopp was then transported to St. Francis Hospital, in Tulsa where personnel did a chest x-ray and gave him a breathing treatment. Schopp a nurse at Cancer Treatment Center of America, said he was released the same day.

SURREY (NEWS1130) - Dozens of Surrey businesses closed by a fire and chemical spill Monday will have to wait to find out when they can reopen. The spill happened at Precision Plating on 84th Avenue near 130th, in a large warehouse-like complex.

Senior Environmental Emergency Response Officer Harold Riedler says the mess entered the storm drain and nearby creek, and includes chromic and sulphuric acids.

He says the acids are very toxic to aquatic life, but no fish-kill has been reported. Riedler credits Surrey Fire for quickly responding to the call, blocking storm drains and preventing more chemicals from reaching the sensitive creek.

Many shop owners are frustrated, saying they haven't been able to get answers about when they will be able to resume business. Roger Dayal owns an auto repair shop and says that's not the only problem they have because of the spill. "Bylaw officers are down here pointing fingers at everybody. You can't do this now, you can't do that now ... because of this environmental spill".

Dayal says he is losing two or three thousand dollars each day his business is closed.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- Traffic on southbound U.S. Highway 101 has been moving slowly through San Rafael Wednesday evening, hours after a pickup truck loaded with car batteries caught fire on the roadway, a California Highway Patrol officer said.
A blue Ford F-150 was "fully engulfed" in flames in the right lanes near the Lincoln Avenue exit, a caller reporting the fire at about 3:20 p.m. told the CHP, Officer Peter Van Eckhardt said.
A Bay Area Freeway Service Patrol vehicle was first to arrive at the scene. The patrol provides free assistance to disabled vehicles, Van Eckhardt said.
Unable to cope with the burning pickup truck, the patrol vehicle driver stood by until firefighters arrived at about 3:30 p.m., he said.
Firefighters began dousing the burning truck with water, but Van Eckhardt said they had to change tack after discovering the Ford's bed was full of car batteries.
To neutralize the acid-spewing batteries, a base substance was used.
"They described it as being something like baking soda," he said.

A tractor trailer leaving Eastman Chemical Company overturned Monday afternoon on Interstate 26, rupturing a containment tank and leaking acetic acid.

The driver was transported from his crumpled cab to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, while traffic on eastbound I-26 was closed to one lane of traffic.

Though the exact amount of materials leaked in the accident is not immediately known, it is not anticipated to have a major environmental impact.

According to Kingsport Police Officer Cliff Ferguson, the incident occurred at approximately 3:20 p.m. He said a weight shift near mile marker 8 caused the truck and flatbed trailer, which was hauling the tank of acid, to flip over and slide off the interstate.

As of 4:20 p.m. a Hazmat unit was responding to clean the site and transfer the acetic acid to another transportation tank. Ferguson said it was expected to take four to six hours to clear the site and reopen both lanes of eastbound I-26.

EMC News - A number of Perth residents were evacuated from their homes for several hours Friday evening, April 1, following a report of a chemical spill at Perth Soap.

The Perth Fire Department responded to the call at the factory, located at 5 Herriott St., at 8:28 p.m.

According to a report from Fire Chief Steve Fournier, the leaking chemical was identified as hydrochloric acid. This is a basic cleaning chemical, but is corrosive and has an effect on the respiratory system if inhaled in high concentrations.

Firefighters equipped with self contained breathing apparatus contained the leak by closing an isolation valve on an outside storage tank on the southwest corner of the building.

A tractor-trailer carrying old batteries flipped over Thursday night and damaged its fuel tanks, spilling diesel onto the Southeast Loop 410 off-ramp to Interstate 37 South.

No injuries were reported. Speed might have been a factor, although police were still investigating the cause of the accident.

Firefighters rushed to the scene after the 18-wheeler rolled over around 8:30 p.m. Personnel shovelled dirt onto the road to keep the diesel from seeping into the grass and causing an environmental hazard, said Connie Hall, a battalion chief with the San Antonio Fire Department.

The ramp was closed for several hours while a hazmat team contained the diesel and the spilled battery acid.

The Burlington Fire Department set up a perimeter around Memorial Auditorium on Friday morning, evacuated the building and called the Vermont Hazardous Materials Response Team to the scene to deal with a possible toxic hazard.

The incident began during a class in the auditorium’s print studio Thursday evening when a student, “as part of the artistic process,” Assistant Fire Marshall Barry Simays said, added zinc to a container of nitric acid and created an “orange-red-colored cloud.”

Those in the print shop took the container outside, but no one called the fire department until Friday morning, Simays said.

The hazardous-materials specialists identified the substance in the container, and the building was declared safe at about 2:30 p.m. Friday. One unidentified individual was said to have experienced “minor respiratory” problems, but there were no other injuries.

Nine firefighters and seven members of the hazardous materials team were at the auditorium for about four hours Friday as part of the cleanup.

A small fire inside a Schaumburg manufacturing facility destroyed a tank containing an acidic chemical Sunday afternoon, according to fire officials.

The facility, on the 1600 block of Mitchell Boulevard, which specializes in manufacturing circuit boards, has built-in components to prevent the chemical from spilling out of the building, said Batallion Chief Michael Diaferia.

Firefighters responded to a general alarm just after 4 p.m. and found an employee inside the building who had seen smoke in the rear of the facility, Diaferia said.

Firefighters found that a heating unit for a chemical holding tank had malfunctioned and created a small fire that was prevented from spreading by the building’s sprinkler system, he said.

The Dunkirk Fire Department, the Chautauqua County Hazardous Materials Team and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation were all called to Dunkirk Specialty Steel on Brigham Road Wednesday afternoon to control and clean up a small chemical spill.

"It was nothing serious, so I have no comment," Dunkirk Specialty Steel Plant Manager Rich Pincoski said.

"They had a malfunction of one of their systems that they caught fairly quickly," Dunkirk Fire Chief Keith Ahlstrom said. "Specialty Steel notified the fire department, we notified the HazMat team, Specialty Steel had notified the DEC. We had contained most of it to one certain area. They were able to stop the flow and they hired a company to come in and pump it out and take it away."

According to Ahlstrom, the chemicals involved were a combination of hydrochloric and sulfuric acid which is used in Specialty Steel's pickling process. The chemical spill did make its way out of the building and into a nearby creek, but Ahlstrom said that both the DEC and the City of Dunkirk took readings downstream of the spill and only trace amounts of the chemicals were detected.

"It wasn't a great amount and it was highly diluted by the run off and the snow and the rain and everything else," Ahlstrom said. "Nothing showed anything more than a trace."

The fire department was at the scene for around two hours, securing the scene and waiting for the HazMat team and the DEC representative, both of which came from out of town.

Authorities are investigating the discovery of acid on seats in a GRTC Transit System bus that left a girl with leg burns.

Richmond fire Lt. Shawn L. Jones said the girl was taken to VCU Medical Center for treatment of second-degree burns on her knees after coming in contact with one or more seats in the bus late Sunday.

Jones said results of state lab testing came back this morning and showed that the chemical was a strong acid. Beyond that, the tests were unable to determine exactly what type of acid it was, he said.

"We believe it was an accidental release of product," Jones said.

ANSONIA, Conn. -- A hazmat situation was reported in Ansonia on Tuesday afternoon.
The incident was reported before 5 p.m. at Auto Repairs Unlimited on Main Street.
Employees there called authorities after the business filled with a mist after an employee opened a gas tank on a vehicle. Employees said they believe someone poured acid into the gas tank as an act of vandalism. When an employee opened the tank, a mist sprayed out and burned him in the face.
Officials from the Department of Environmental Protection said a car was towed to the shop from Derby. The owner was complaining the car wasn't running correctly. When mechanic began working on the car, he suffered chemical burns. He refused treatment.

HARDEEVILLE - The eastbound lanes of U.S. 278 was closed for more than two hours Monday morning after several containers of muriatic acid fell off the back of a truck, said Hardeeville Fire Chief Dan Morgan.
The concentrated acid created vapors, prompting officials to close U.S. 278 near Tradition at 7:30 a.m. Traffic was at a standstill and the road reopened after 10 a.m., Morgan said.
No one was injured and the Hilton Head-Bluffton HAZMAT Team was called in to clean up the spill, Morgan said.
Muriatic acid is typically used to clean masonry or brick work.
Firefighters from Hilton Head, Bluffton, Hardeeville and personnel with Jasper County EMS all responded.

NASHUA - Firefighters were dispatched to BAE Systems at 65 Spitbrook Road to evaluate three persons after a minor chemical spill involving "some kind of acid" this morning, according to radio transmissions.
The incident was reported shortly before 7 a.m. People at the firm told fire dispatchers the spill had been contained, and security officers would escort rescuers inside, to evaluate three affected people. Firefighters promptly reported back that the incident was under control, and that four people had "minimal to no contact" with the chemical, but needed to be taken to a hospital to be checked out to comply with company protocols.

GALVESTON — Last week, Mary Frank arrived early as she does every Sunday to open the Christian Fellowship Ministry Church in Dickinson. When she got there, she found someone had knocked off the front-door lock.
Frank, 60, the church secretary, stepped inside to find a chemical had been poured on the carpet from the front door to the pulpit, eating all the way through and into the concrete.
The chemical was poured over the 20 pews, cutting through wood and upholstery, and in the kitchen. The church's three guitars, two keyboards and amplifier were gone.
"I can't put it into words how I felt that day; it was so emotional," Frank said.
Dickinson police Detective Frank Price estimated the damage caused last Sunday at about $25,000.
The chemical still covers the church floor, said Assistant Pastor Eddie Glenn, who suspects it is some sort of acid.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A fire department hazardous materials team has given the all-clear after a pre-dawn acid spill at a Las Vegas casino ice skating rink.

No injuries and no damage were reported, and hotel guests and casino patrons were not affected by the report of a hydrochloric acid leak early Tuesday at the Orleans Arena.

A scheduled Tuesday night Las Vegas Wranglers minor league hockey game won't be affected.

A fire official tells KLAS-TV that arena employees noticed an acid smell when they arrived for work before 5 a.m. and summoned firefighters.

Officials say the corrosive acid is used in the production of ice at the arena.

RIO DE JANEIRO – Four workers were killed and three others injured when they were exposed to toxic fumes while cleaning tanks at a chemical plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, the fire department said Sunday.

The accident happened Saturday afternoon at the plant in Jardin Santo Amaro, a neighborhood in the southern section of Sao Paulo.

The workers were wearing masks, but they were overcome by toxic fumes from sulfuric and muriatic acid, which are used for routine cleaning at the nickel-processing plant.

Firefighters found one person dead at the scene and four others in serious condition.

One of the men died while being transported to the hospital, the fire department said.

Firefighters found two other victims inside the tank.

HORIZON - The hazmat team is working to clean up a chemical spill in Horizon city.
El Paso County Sheriff's Deputies say a corrosive liquid leaked out of a tractor trailer. There's no word on serious injuries, but we have learned some people are being decontaminated.

Initial reports suggests this chemical could be toxic. Deputies are asking for people to avoid the area, however they say it is mainly for traffic concerns.

VADODARA: Three persons were injured in an accident at Sujata Chemicals plant in Makarpura GIDC here on Saturday morning. The accident took place when an open vessel around which labourers were working fell down.

Sources said a chemical process using acidic chemicals was being conducted in the vessel when it suddenly collapsed. Two persons - Gangaram Vasava and Mangal Machhi - suffered serious burn injuries.

Environmental health crews, a hazardous materials team and county firefighters responded to a spill of 50 to 60 gallons of a corrosive chemical in Camarillo that forced area businesses to evacuate several employees Saturday.

The spill of a copper plating solution in the 300 block of South Lewis Road in Camarillo occurred sometime overnight, the Ventura County Fire Department said Saturday afternoon. It identified the business involved as Church Technology.

Four people from nearby businesses were evacuated as a precaution, according to the Fire Department.

FALMOUTH, Maine (AP) — Officials say a spill from a broken container of muriatic acid that was illegally dumped in Falmouth forced the temporary closing of an access road and sent two people to the hospital, but they were treated and released with no serious injuries.

Assistant Fire Chief Doug Patey of the Falmouth Fire Department said police were called Monday morning after the two public works employees went to retrieve a recycling container behind the West Falmouth Shopping Center, and discovered a liquid chemical inside and outside of the container.

Two people were injured in a chemical spill at a dairy in Somerset on Thursday night.

Devon and Somerset fire crews were called to the Robert Wiseman plant in North Petherton after reports that a pipe was leaking acid.

Paramedics treated one person for leg injuries and another for facial injuries at the scene.

A spokesman for the dairy said an internal investigation into the incident was under way.

Communications director Graeme Jack said the workers had come into "unintentional contact with a fluid used to clean pipes".

Staff were evacuated after a chemical spill at a Flintshire aerospace factory.

Four fire engines were called to the scene at Gardner Aerospace, Hawarden Business Park, Flintshire, at 0939 GMT Friday.

There had been a spillage of sulphuric acid and chromic acid at the factory, which makes aeroplane parts.

North Wales Fire Service said an environmental protection unit and incident response unit was also sent.

No-one was hurt.

DURHAM, N.C. — Two contractors working at Cree, Inc. in Research Triangle Park were transported to the hospital after coming into contact with hydrochloric acid on Tuesday afternoon, Bethesda Volunteer Fire Company Chief Robert Andrews said.

Crews were called to 3026 E. Cornwallis Road for a pipe burst around 3 p.m., but the issue was upgraded to an acid spill, the department said. 

The contractors immediately washed the acid off in nearby showers, which are located throughout the building as a precaution, Andrews said. They were taken to Duke University Hospital as a precaution. 

The building was evacuated when hazmat crews arrived. Andrews said the pipe that was leaking the acid was immediately shut off. 

AMHERSTBURG, Ont. -- There is no risk to the public after a "substantial" chemical leak at the Honeywell plant Saturday morning, says Amherstburg fire Chief Rick Murray.

At about 6:23 a.m., Murray was notified of a hydrofluoric acid leak at the Front Road East plant. Between 45 and 100 gallons of the highly corrosive acid were released, forming a white gas cloud over the Honeywell property, he said.

The plant's mitigation system kicked in immediately, dousing the gas cloud with water and knocking it down before it drifted off the property, Murray said. The leak was stopped by 7:10 a.m.

"Everything was done according to protocol and the emergency response was executed well," Murray said.

As part of the town's emergency plan, the police chief and the mayor were also notified and the fire department's own hazmat team was on standby in case the acid leak spread beyond Honeywell grounds.

Businesses have been evacuated and fire crews remain on standby after thousands of litres of acid spilled at a southeast Queensland business.

The Department of Community Services says up to five-thousand litres of hydrochloric acid leaked from a storage container at a Toowoomba business this morning.

It says firefighters have contained the substance, which is now being pumped into a truck to be taken away.

A number of businesses in the area have been evacuated.

A spokesperson for Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue told Mix96 "Tuesday 16 November, 11.50am: Chemical incident - fumes given off following spillage of one litre container of nitric acid, Picts Lane, Princes Risborough. One appliance and crew from Princes Risborough and one from Aylesbury attended, along with the OSU (Operational Support Unit) from Great Missenden and the SEV (Specialist Equipment Vehicle) from Aylesbury.Firefighters used four sets of breathing apparatus, two gas-tight suits, one hose reel, sand and brushes to contain the spill and decontaminate the area. One man was taken to hospital suffering from the effects of breathing in fumes."

Tauranga’s new $800,000 Hazmat Command Unit is helping to contain a hazardous chemical incident in Edgecumbe.
Fire communications acting shift manager Tony McDonald says the incident involves a Trans Pacific tanker.

He says the tanker sucked in nitric acid into its container and the chemical reaction had created plumes of noxious fumes.

Siren speed questioned in aftermath of chemical spill. Emergency workers attend to the scene of a sulfuric acid leak at a chemical plant in southeast Scarborough on Wednesday, Nov. 3.. (November 3, 2010) Staff photo/NICK PERRY
This time, it was no drill.
When sirens sounded Wednesday, Nov. 3, following a sulfuric acid spill at a West Hill chemical plant, a warning system set up for area residents and tested many times faced its first real emergency.

Now, in addition to finding out what went wrong at Chemtura Canada, those responsible for the system must determine whether sirens sounded quickly enough.

Jack Horner, manager of the plant on Chemical Court, acknowledged Friday it "took quite a while before the siren got activated," estimating the warning came "something like" 15 minutes after the spill.

Emergency crews spent yesterday afternoon cleaning up a chemical spill at the Murray Goulburn milk processing factory at Leongatha.

The Country Fire Authority (CFA) says nitric acid leaked in a storage area at the factory yesterday morning.

Some Murray Goulburn workers tried to clean up the spill but were overcome by fumes.

Dozens of firefighters, along with staff from the Environment Protection Authority, were called to the factory.

CFA operations officer Simon Bloink says the clean-up was a delicate operation.

"Within that cleaning room there was other products. Part of the product was touching metalwork and there was a gas given off, so we just had to make sure that there was no gas present within that room before we could hand it back to Murray-Goulburn," he said.

A chemical leak in Owatonna, Minn., sent three workers to the hospital Monday night and halted activity at a window and door hardware production facility for many hours, authorities said Tuesday.

The leak occurred about 5:20 p.m. Monday at the Truth Hardware site in the 200 block of 24th Avenue SW., when a valve broke as a worker was discharging sulfuric acid, said Fire Chief Mike Johnson.

About 300 gallons of the chemical were lost, Johnson said. The worker was decontaminated at the scene, taken to a hospital in Owatonna and then moved by air ambulance to a second hospital. The employee's condition was not immediately known. Two other workers were also taken to a hospital for evaluation.

MIDDLETOWN — The clear substance found near the Wilcox apartment complex last week has been identified as hydroflouric acid, a highly corrosive liquid and contact poison, officials said Wednesday.

Shortly before noon on Oct. 14, officials received a 911 call after three members of the complex’s maintenance staff found a 10-gallon bucket filled with clear liquid while cleaning the banks of a nearby brook.

Eyewitness reports revealed that some of the liquid spilled into the brook, which leads to a pond, and created a vapor-like cloud which could be seen for several hours thereafter. The substance reacted with the moisture in the air to create the cloud, said state Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Cyndy Chanaca.

The reason why the container was there remains unknown. However, it appeared to be an “old historic drum” dumped there years ago, Chanaca said. It has since been sent by the DEP to an approved disposal facility for discarding.

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- A Middletown apartment complex was evacuated and three maintenance workers sent to the hospital after a container filled with an acidic chemical was found Thursday afternoon.
Officials said three maintenance workers found the container on the banks of Sumner Brook in the area of South Main Street while cleaning up trash at about 11:30 a.m.
Officials said when the workers tried to move the container, a clear liquid spilled out creating a vapor cloud.
"All of a sudden, there's pounding at the door," said resident Alyssa Broe. "She's telling me she's scared and there's firefighters suited up in masks on asking us to evacuate the building."
A nearby apartment building, which contains 82 units was evacuated after the discovery, officials said.

WEST HARRISON — Two town sanitation workers were overcome by acidic fumes from a garbage truck and rushed to the hospital Tuesday morning.

A routine residential garbage run down Locust Avenue turned dangerous around 8:45 a.m.

While a Harrison sanitation crew was collecting trash, their garbage truck began spewing smoke.

A Westchester County Hazardous Materials Response Team determined that the smoke was caused by acid thrown out with trash, said Caren Halbfinger, spokeswoman for the county Health Department.

Police are investigating what acid it was and what house it came from.

VALLEJO, Calif. -- Firefighters responded to a hazardous materials incident in Vallejo early Friday morning in which an unknown acid was left in a trash can in a residential area, a fire captain said.
The incident started around 7:50 a.m. when a garbage man dumped the contents of a 33-gallon plastic trash can into his truck and visible fumes began to emanate from the container, Vallejo fire Capt. Marcus Banks said.
"He said his throat started hurting," Banks said.
The man was examined by paramedics at the scene and was able to return to work.
"For the most part he was OK," Banks said.
The trash can was picked up at 175 Rutgers Court, a vacant, single-family home that was being prepared for renters, Banks said.
The clear acid was in a 1-gallon plastic container that had leaked into the trash can, Banks said.
The container was not labeled and the acid has yet to be identified, Banks said.

A Hazmat team is cleaning up a chemical spill in South Reno after a Waste Management employee was burned this morning while collecting trash.

At around 8:09 a.m., the employee emptied several trash cans into a garbage truck in the 10000 block of Crystal Bay Drive and began to compact it when he heard a pop, followed by a chemical spray that burned his skin, City of Reno spokesperson Michele Anderson said. The employee was transported to an area hospital to be treated. The severity of his injuries was unknown, but Anderson said he is 'doing okay.'

The Washoe County Health Department is also at the scene, and will continue the investigation to determine what kind of chemical it was and where it came from, Anderson said. Investigators have narrowed the chemical's source to about 4 homes on the street, she said.

Investigators determined only that the chemical was an acidic liquid, and they were using a stabilizing agent to neutralize it. Hazmat crews were also working on moving the garbage truck from the scene, Anderson said.

D.C. Fire and EMS is reporting that one person was exposed to spilled acid at the D.C. Water Sewage Treatment Station in Southeast.

A male worker was being evaluated at the station at 125 O Street for possible chemical burns.

The acid spill is said to be contained to the loading dock area.

An estimated eight tons of strong acid leaked from a tank on an abandoned factory yard and flew into sewer lines, causing billows of red gases. The accident got under control after two hours' efforts by local fire-fighting and environmental staffers.

Sept. 17--The San Marcos Fire Department's hazardous materials team responded to a chemical leak that originated on the Texas State University campus Thursday morning.

Officials discovered around 7 a.m. that approximately 450 gallons of sulfuric acid used to clean equipment leaked from the university's physical plant on Sessom Drive.

They said that although a retention basin in place collected the majority of the acid, a "small amount" escaped.

Response crews washed the spilled chemical into nearby storm drains near the intersection of North LBJ Drive and Sessom Drive and used soda ash to render the acid inert, officials said.

Texas State spokesperson Jayme Blaschke said that while the drainage ultimately empties into the San Marcos River, the spill there was contained and a pumper truck removed the chemicals.

Employees of a building owned by BellSouth in Raleigh were evacuated for a short time Wednesday due to a hazmat situation.
Crews were dispatched to 5010 Second Street around 12:31 p.m. According to officials on scene, about 10 gallons of some sort of substance spilled out of commercial batteries.
Firefighters neutralized the spill before cleanup crews worked to clear the spill.
There was no immediate danger to the public and no injuries were reported in the incident.

FORT ATKINSON, Wis. -- Eight people were taken to a hospital after a chemical spill inside a plant on the south side of Fort Atkinson on Tuesday morning.

Capt. Mark Schoenleber of the Fort Atkinson Fire Department said the call came in just after 5 a.m. on Tuesday.

Schoenleber said a valve broke on a 330-gallon container of a chemical containing phosphoric acid inside a Spacesaver plant on Janesville Avenue in Fort Atkinson. That caused the chemical to spill out onto the plant floor.

The plant was evacuated and firefighters called into the Jefferson County hazmat team to clean up the spill. They shut off the valve and power to the building.

"The actual chemical that was spilled had a less than 10 percent acid in it and was not very dangerous to the health of people, but initially we didn't know that," said Capt. Tom Gerondale, of the Fort Atkinson Fire Department.

A highly toxic spill prompted the evacuation of two Baltimore office buildings.  Right now, crews are still working to clean up the dangerous spill.

The buildings were evacuated for a hydrofluoric acid spill.

The process of dealing with the acid is extremely dangerous because even one drop can lead to serious health problems.

Eleven workers in two businesses were evacuated.

"Just had to get out.  They didn't tell us any information other than we had to leave," said Michael Wooten.

Crews first thought they were only dealing with a few gallons of acid but quickly realized they were wrong.

"Evaluation by our hazmat task force revealed closer to 50 to 65 gallons spilled in an approximately 20 by 30 area," said Chief Kevin Cartwright.

Employees use acid to make etchings into stone.

Two people were taken to hospital Tuesday in Ottawa, and a Natural Resources Canada building was evacuated, after small leak of hydrogen fluoride gas in a lab.

A malfunctioning lab device caused the leak around 11 a.m. ET in a seventh-floor laboratory at an office of the Geological Survey of Canada at 601 Booth St.

Thirty-five firefighters, including two hazardous-materials teams, were dispatched to the scene. The building's 300 employees were already leaving the building when crews arrived, fire department spokesperson Marc Messier said.

Two people working in the lab at the time of the spill, a 31-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman, were taken to hospital as a precautionary measure, paramedics said. The woman had been treated at the scene for airway irritation.

Eastbound lanes of I-70 prior to I-695 have been reopened after a four car crash involving a truck carrying hazardous chemicals closed them during Thursday's rush hour.

It happened around 5 p.m.

Baltimore County Fire Officials say four vehicles, including one carrying dry chlorine and sulfuric acid, collided.  Several people are injured and at least one person has been taken to Shock Trauma

Fire crews worked to clean up the chemicals and reopened the highway around 7:30 p.m.

NORTH NAPLES: Seven people were taken to the hospital after a chemical leak at a North Naples business Monday morning.

Firefighters say some kind of a sulphuric acid mixture leaked at Moog Techtron Corp at 1400 Rail Head Boulevard around 10 a.m.

Sixty people inside the building at the time were evacuated as HAZMAT crews worked to deal with the leak.

"The employees, when they got inside this morning, everything was cool... then all the sudden, somewhere, some vapors came up. They stared getting lightheaded and dizzy," said Chief Orly Stolts of the North Naples Fire Department.

Jerry Burns, Operations Manager at the business, which cleans computer parts, reported an ammonia smell shortly after getting to work.

He said the chemical leak happened when a employee there was cleaning out some containers. But Monday, that routine job turned into a hectic scene.

ozens of firefighters have dealt with a chemical incident at a factory in South Yorkshire.

Crews were called to Betafence, a wire manufacturer on Shepcoate Lane, Sheffield, on Sunday morning to contain hydrochloric acid leaking from a tank.

A fire service spokesman said no-one had been injured and workers were evacuated from the premises.

A cordon was put up around the factory and about 30 firefighters were called to the scene.

FORT SMITH, Ark. --

The Fort Smith Fire Department and Hazmat crew were called Saturday morning to clean up a hydrochloric acid spill.
A Schlumberger semitrailor leaked the acid onto the Zero Street exit of Interstate 540 in Fort Smith.
The street was closed from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. while the crews used neutralizing powder on the spill and swept it up.

A 2-year-old girl is in serious condition after being burned by an acidic cleaning fluid, according to D.C. fire officials.

The incident occurred when the girl and her mother were removing trash from their Toyota RAV4 Wednesday morning in the 2500 block of 17th Street NW, according to D.C. Fire Department spokesman Pete Piringer. The girl apparently found the hazardous liquid — an acid-based cleaner used to removed corrosion from air conditioning coils -- in the backseat of the vehicle while her mother was distracted.

The mother took the girl to a nearby walk-in clinic in the 1600 block of Columbia Road, and officials there called the fire department, Piringer said.

The child suffered chemical burns to 25-30 percent of her body, including her face, chest and shoulders. She is also being treated for possible ingestion at Children’s Hospital, Piringer said.

D.C. fire officials later discovered the vehicle with fumes emitting from the open container, causing a “very dangerous” situation, Piringer said. The vehicle has been ventilated and the chemical removed.

“The teachable moment is how important it is to supervise children,” Piringer said. “If they’re close by, they tend to get anything, so the best advice is to make sure they don’t have access to these types of cleaning materials or any kind of hazardous material.”

BLANDFORD, Mass. (WGGB) -- Motorists heading westbound on the Massachusetts Turnpike may need to find other food or gasoline plans, as the service plaza in Blandford is closed due to an acid spill.

State Police say that around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, a truck pulled into the service plaza on the westbound side of the Mass. Turnpike.  When it stopped, it was discovered that the truck was leaking some sort of acid.

Shortly thereafter, the service plaza was evacuated and closed off.  A hazardous materials team has responded and is still working to clean up the spill.

No injuries have been reported.

(KMOV)-- Hazmat crews in North St. Louis County had to rush to clean up a dangerous chemical spill.
This happened Thursday night on Old St. Charles Road and Smiley.
Crews had to shut down the intersection for one hour to clean up the mess.
Authorities said this all started when a drum carrying chemicals fell off the back of a truck. Crews checked the container but there were no labels to describe what the drum contained on the inside. Firefighters said the container carried some type of fuming acid.
There were no reported injures. The Pattonville Fire Protection district was one of the first to respond.
Authorities said they are still looking for the driver of the truck.
 

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - An acid spill at a downtown jewelry store prompted evacuations Monday morning.

It happened just before 11 a.m  at the Jewelers Exchange in the 800 block of Sixth Avenue near F Street. Employees were reportedly attempting to transport a container of muriatic acid when it spilled.

Hazmat crews are at the scene, using soda ash to neutralize and absorb the chemical.

At least 25 people in the building were evacuated from the building. One woman was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Emergency crews  responded to a mass casualty incident in Tualatin this morning. At 8:22am, employees at ACS, located at 18277 SW Boones Ferry Rd, called 911 complaining of respiritory problems and nausea. The building was quickly evacuated.
Firefighters arrived to find more than 100 people outside the building, more than 20 of whom complained of respiratory symptoms including burning noses, coughing and watery eyes. Firefighters quickly declared a Mass Casualty Incident and called for more resources as they began assessing employees for injuries. Firefighters determined that 12 patients should be transported to local hospitals.
As additional resources arrived from around the southwest suburbs, firefighters made entry into the building and located the source of the problem. TVF&R has determined that a computer backup system’s battery (about the size of a car battery) boiled over and the sulfuric acid particulates spread into some areas of the building. Firefighters removed the battery and used HazMat monitors to check the air and ensure that the building was safe to re-enter. At no time during the incident was there a danger to any of the surrounding community and no additional evacuations were necessary. TVF&R advised ACS managers that the building was safe to occupy three hours after arriving on-scene.

Fire crews and a Hazmat team were called out to the Flying Horse County Club in Colorado Springs on Wednesday night after a lifeguard noticed an acid spill in a swimming pool pump room.

He called for help around 8 p.m. Wednesday from the rec center at the country club, at 1880 Weiskopf Pt on the northeast side of the Springs, off of Highway 83.


No one was injured by the spill. The leak came from a hydrochloric acid pump that helps balance the pH levels in the kids swimming pool at the center. 80 gallons were spilled from a 100-gallon barrel of acid, but the dangerous chemical was all contained in a fluid trap. That large amount leaked out over several hours, and it took Hazmat several hours clean up the danger and neutralize the acid with baking soda.

The company responsible for a spill of hydrofluoric acid on Route 33 in Wind Gap last year has paid nearly $139,000 to cover the costs of the incident, Northampton County officials said this week.

The March 2009 spill, which happened when a Honeywell International tanker truck carrying the chemical flipped onto its side, prompted an evacuation and stranded drivers on Route 33 and its offshoots. Police said the truck driver had swerved to try to avoid a deer.

There were no serious injuries, and a Honeywell spokesman said at the time that "less than a quart" of the tanker's 33,000 pounds of undiluted hydroflouric acid spilled. The chemical causes skin and resparatory irritation, and too much exposure to it can be fatal.

Eight agencies had expenses related to the incident, including three volunteer fire companies, county emergency management and the Pen Argyl Area School District, which provided shelter to some of the 5,000 people affected by the nine-hour evacuation.

According to a county news release, the costs eligible for reimbursement by the company included personnel, equipment and operations expenses such as "flares, food, mileage [and] portable lighting."

EVERETT — A chemical spill at Kimberly-Clark on Wednesday afternoon prompted a large hazmat response.

Fire crews and a hazmat team were called to the plant about 1:45 p.m. The leak involved a small amount of cooking acid, a chemical used in the pulping process, plant manager Christopher Isenberg said. Nobody was injured.

The spill was less than 100 gallons, which is considered small, Everett spokeswoman Kate Reardon said.

A half-dozen fire trucks responded as part of standard procedure.

Firefighters found the area contained by the plant’s hazmat technicians, Reardon said. Firefighters evaluated the hazmat technicians for injuries and washed down their protective suits.

HADLEY, Mass. (WGGB) -- A portion of Route 47 is closed while officials investigate a hazardous material situation.

Hadley Police tells abc40 and FOX 6 that someone found a bucket of acid in a barn.  This discovery prompted officials to close a quarter-mile stretch of Route 47 between French Street and Mount Warner Road around 4:00 p.m. Thursday.

No injuries have been reported.  Motorists are advised that that section of roadway will be closed for several hours while State Police bomb squad and HAZMAT technicians investigate.

VALLEJO — A group of people intentionally spilled jugs of corrosive acid onto the street Sunday night, requiring an emergency cleanup by the Solano County Hazardous Material Response Team.
Witnesses to the incident, reported at about 7 p.m., saw several people pour out two one-gallon jugs onto Coughlan Street at the top of the hill, before driving away and leaving a third jug upright on the street, Vallejo Fire Capt. George Everett.
The third jug had started to leak acid by the time emergency responders reached the scene, Everett said.
"It started to eat up the asphalt," Everett said. "It's very corrosive. (But) there was minimal damage (to the road.)" The cleanup team was initially uncertain what type of hazardous material had been used, and remained on the scene until after midnight to neutralize the chemical, Everett said.
The chemical dumping incident, considered a criminal act, is under investigation by the Vallejo Police Department, Everett said.