A tanker conveying cylinders filled with inflammable chemical exploded on the Lekki-Epe Expressway in the Shango- Tedo area of Lagos Friday morning.

An eyewitness alleged that a woman might have been killed in the explosion.

The fire service appears to have been prompt on the scene but there is no confirmation on casualties even though eye-witnesses confirm deaths.

Traffic was at a standstill.

QUINCY, Ill. (WGEM) - Fire investigators return to the scene Wednesday of a five-alarm fire at the Doyle Manufacturing complex at 40th and Broadway in Quincy.
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A Doyle spokesman says the fire was in a building where they paint fertilizer equipment.

Tipton says that building contained flammable materials like aerosol cans, which led to several explosions inside.

"It's always a dangerous situation when you come on a manufacturing facility because you don't know what's inside at first and the first moments are a little bit anxious when you first start," said Tipton.

Tipton says the metal roof on that building collapsed on top of the fire, making it difficult to fight the flames. 

A fire at the Arizona Chemical plant in Springfield Tuesday was quickly put out.

But there are still questions over how the fire started.

Around one o’clock, emergency workers responded to a fire originally reported at Rock-Tenn paper mill. The location was quickly changed to Arizona Chemical.

Firefighters from Springfield and Panama City quickly jumped into action to put out to blaze.

Both units, along with Arizona Chemical’s in-house fire and rescue team, had the fire under control within twenty minutes.

While the location and source of the fire are known, the cause is not.

"We're going to do a root cause find out what the problem is and make sure that this doesn't happen again to the best of our ability. But the good thing is no injuries, no incidences, no destruction, and everyone is safe." said DeVaughn Stephens of Arizona Chemical.

At the time of the fire, there was supposedly a lot of tall-oil in the pond, which is quite flammable.

PLEASANTON, Calif. — A big rig carrying flammable chemicals slammed into the center divider of Highway 680 near Pleasanton late Sunday, jackknifing and triggering a traffic slowdown that lasted for nearly seven hours, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Battalion Chief Jack Neiman-Kimel said the accident required the deployment of a hazmat team because included among the truck’s load was “a couple drums of some hazardous material. He has a drum of lithium and a drum of Trimethylgallium.”
Both chemicals are used in the production process of semiconductors and electric batteries and can catch fire when exposed to air.
Neiman-Kimel said about 100 gallons of diesel fuel did leak out of the truck and also had to be cleaned up.

Workplace safety experts are highlighting the dangers of poor housekeeping in sawmills in the wake of a deadly explosion at a Prince George sawmill on Monday.

The cause of the blast has not been determined but high accumulations of dust, which can be extremely combustible when a spark is present, were found inside the Lakeland Mill sawmill — something University of Toronto workplace safety expert Graeme Norval says shouldn’t occur.

“It’s poor housekeeping — you get piles of dust on the floor, or on the pipes, it’s dirty, the dust gets into the air,” said Norval, a chemical engineer who teaches courses in factory safety. “Once you get the dust in the air it’s like having a flammable gas mixture, and it just finds a source of ignition and up it goes.”

He said it’s just “common sense” that management should be inspecting vigilantly — “this is not new or novel.”

Two workers were killed and nine remain seriously injured from the blast that tore through the sawmill Monday. Two dozen workers had been in the factory’s lunchroom in a training session at the time.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WKBW) - It was an explosion that could be heard for miles. An empty tank was being repaired at the DuPont facility in November of 2010 when it blew up, killing Rich Folaron, 57, of South Whales.
Now, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board has answers as to why this tragedy happened.
"The accident occurred while a contract worker was welding a tank that unknown to him contained flammable gas," Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso said.
The explosion occurred because there was a hole in the pipes leading from one tank to another. CSB explained how this happened in a computerized video they prepared. WKBW did not use some of the video because of its graphic nature.
"A whole around the agitators shaft was a path for ignition. Sparks could have fallen into the tank even as flammable gas drifted toward the sparks," explains the CSB video.

An Arlington Heights man was burned and a firefighter was injured in a Wednesday night house fire that exploded in the man’s basement, but officials said their injuries could have been much worse.

The man was able to escape the smoky basement after chemical fumes exploded in his face, and firefighters pulled out of the building just before the first floor collapsed.

“We got out just in time,” said Arlington Heights fire Lt. Ray Loch.

Firefighters evacuated the house after a firefighter in a stairwell was thrown back during a flashover, injuring him.

The first floor collapsed shortly after firefighters went into a defensive position, Loch said.

The homeowner was working to plug a hole with a flammable material when, fire officials believe, the water heater kicked on and ignited fumes from the patching material about 5 p.m.

HOHHOT - Fire fighters on Sunday morning put out the blaze in a chemical plant in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, which has caused one dead and three others injured.
The accident happened around 5 pm Saturday at Inner Mongolia 3F Fluorochemical Co Ltd. in the city of Fengzhen. A huge amount of flammable gas has been leaked after the chemical plant caught fire and exploded.
Some tanks containing VDF gas, a flammable and narcotic gas, on the ground floor of the plant's high-rise workshop caught fire. Fire fighters rescued three injured workers trapped in the flames, and evacuated other workers out of the building.

MIDDLETOWN — The spontaneous combustion of cleaning rags stored improperly caused a fire that left an estimated $2.5 million in damages to Midwest Switchgear Services late last month.
Middletown Fire Marshal Bob Hess has ruled the fire accidental due to the combustion of the “poorly discarded cleaning rags stored in an improper container close to a table storing ignitable liquids” at the facility at 4014 Tytus Ave., according to a release.
Fire crews had a crane late last week remove the roof to sift through the debris left by the fire.

A section of Shell's southern Victorian oil refinery has been shut down following a chemical leak.

About 20 firefighters were called to the plant at Corio, southwest of Melbourne, about 11pm (AEST) on Saturday when super-heated flammable sand, used in fuel production, began leaking from a pipe.

Part of the plant was shut down and roads in the vicinity closed as a precaution while authorities responded to the leak, Country Fire Authority (CFA) spokesman Ian Beswicke said.

The area was declared safe about 2am and air monitoring equipment was used to confirm that no dangerous substances had escaped from the refinery.

Authorities are searching for two men who fled a suburban East Hemet home Wednesday afternoon during an inferno caused by a marijuana lab explosion.
Riverside County sheriff’s investigators determined burning marijuana chemicals set the blaze that destroyed a home at the corner of Acacia Avenue and Lake Street, in the unincorporated neighborhood of Little Lake.
The Sheriff’s Department Special Investigations Bureau issued a statement Thursday that said two men were seen fleeing after several explosions were heard just before 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Detectives believe the men were using a flammable substance to extract concentrated cannabis from marijuana plants in the garage. Evidence suggests a spark ignited the fumes, which caused an explosion and flames that consumed most of the home, according to the statement.
The fire also caused ammunition in the home to discharge and fire at the same time firefighters arrived.

Veolia Environmental Services Technical Solutions reported a small fire at its hazardous materials recycling facility in Menomonee Falls Wednesday morning.
A flammable and corrosive liquid ignited while a sample was being taken from a single drum container, facility manager Joe Baumann said.
The fire was contained to the individual drum and a small area around it. No other hazardous materials were involved, he said.
The fire and was fully extinguished about 15 minutes after it broke out, Baumann added.
No injuries were sustained as a result of this small fire, although an employee was evaluated at a local hospital and released.

BEND, Ore. -- Bend Research employees were evacuated and fire crews were called in when a chemical drum with a carbon filter ignited Tuesday afternoon, but workers used a fire extinguisher to contain the blaze, fire officials said.
Firefighters responded to an alarm around 1:40 p.m. at the medical research firm at 63045 Corporate Place (off Empire Avenue), said Deputy Fire Marshal T.J. Johannsen.
Arriving crews found the building had been evacuated and workers were gathered away from the building on an adjoining parking lot, she said.
The fire began in a drum, about 55 gallons in size, located in a small room off the northwest corner of the building, easy to reach from an outside door, Johannsen said.
The filtering system of the drum uses activated carbon to filter various solutions, the fire official said. A highly flammable chemical was being processed by the system when the fire broke out, Johannsen explained.
Because the container malfunctioned, a pocket of concentrated air in the drum was able to reach an ignition source, she said.
The resulting fire was able to heat the drum, causing it to break down, but the blaze was contained in the area of origin, Johannsen said.
Workers used a fire extinguisher to slow the fire’s progress, keeping it contained before firefighters arrived, wearing breathing apparatus as a precaution.
Johannsen said the quick actions of workers who activated emergency plans had the building evacuated in minutes.
“This is a good reminder for everyone to never ignore an alarm,” Johannsen said in a news release. “Always take smoke and the alarms seriously. They may one day save your life.”PrintEmail


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AHMEDABAD: City reported three major fire incidents on Sunday afternoon. In the first incident, an AMC waste disposal site in Gyaspur village in the outskirts of the city caught fire on Sunday evening after a dumper rammed into a stationary electric pole. Three fire fighters and two tankers of Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services (AEFS) doused flames. AFES officials also attended fire calls from Odhav and Sarkhej-Bavla highway.

The officials said fire at Gyaspur was a major operation as they had to ensure that the fire does not spread in the highly inflammable heaps of waste. Another major operation was carried out in Odhav near Takshshila Society where nearby chemical units had disposed of their chemical waste near residential area and set it on fire.

"Nearby residents called us up after the burning chemical spread a stench in the area along with lot of smoke and fumes that caused eye and nose irritation. We sent six vehicles including fire fighters and tankers to control fire," said AFES officials.

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the Magnablend Chemical company for seven serious violations and and levied a $45,000 fine for last year’s explosion and fire at the company’s Waxahachie factory.

The report concludes a six month investigation, in which OSHA says workers at the plant were exposed to fire hazards by a ventilation system that was far inadequate for what the company was doing.


“Magnablend exposed its workers to fire hazards by failing to provide adequate ventilation that would have removed flammable hydrogen and other vapors,” said Jack Rector, OSHA’s area director in Fort Worth. “OSHA’s standards must be followed to prevent injuries and illnesses. It is fortunate that no one was injured.”

OREM -- A comb of black smoke arched above Utah County early Thursday afternoon after a chemical fire burst out at an Orem fuel company.

The fire started around 12:36 p.m. at the cinder block warehouse occupied by 801 Racing. Orem fire inspector Casy Vorwaller said the company makes Ferox fuel additives designed to increase a vehicle’s mileage. Workers were pumping fuel Thursday, Vorwaller said, when malfunctioning equipment sprayed flammable liquid on a hot pump. The liquid then ignited.

“Once a flammable liquid goes, it goes fast,” Vorwaller added.

Crews from Orem and Provo responded to the blaze and had it under control quickly. Vorwaller said firefighters fought offensively, meaning they were able to get inside the building to extinguish the flames. Damage to the building was limited due to its cinder block construction, Vorwaller said, though the fire did spread to the wooden roof and rafters.

LORENCE, S.C. --
The ramp to I-20 toward Columbia, exit 160-B on I-95 southbound in Florence, was shut down at about 1 p.m.  Monday because of an overturned tanker, according to Lance Cpl. Sonny Collins with the S.C. Highway Patrol.

Collins said the West Florence Fire Department assessed the chemical situation with the tanker. The Florence County Hazmat team also was called to the scene, according to the fire department. The fire department said the liquid is highly flammable and corrosive material. Vapors from the chemical can form and the chemical is explosive when mixed with air.

Emergency crews were pushed a half-mile back from the accident, and the driver was taken to a local hospital. 

ASHEVILLE — An explosion and subsequent small fire injured three construction workers and damaged a restaurant’s kitchen.

The incident happened around 3:50 a.m. Thursday at Cracker Barrel, 5 Crowell Road. Investigators believe flammable vapors from remodeling accumulated in an interior wall cavity and were ignited by a worker using an adjacent electrical outlet, causing the explosion.

Construction workers extinguished the fire before the Fire Department arrived. The explosion caused significant damage to a wall and adjacent kitchen equipment.

The three workers were transported to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries and were later released. The construction work did not have a valid building permit from the city, according to the Fire Department.

The Marina Fire Department responded to a hazardous material incident at 10:32 a.m. Sunday in the area of Eighth Street and the railroad tracks on the former Fort Ord, according to the Marina Fire Department.

An unknown substance was leaking from a 5-gallon container and upon arrival, fire personnel found several 55-galloon drums and 5-gallon containers on a loading dock and roadway, firefighters said.

One 5-gallon container was leaking a flammable product, firefighters said.

The road leading to Fort Ord Dunes Park was closed for approximately 20 minutes while crews assessed the situation, firefighters said.

The products were identified as construction materials which appeared to have been pushed off the loading dock, firefighters said.

A car slammed into a roadside chemical storage tank Saturday afternoon in Smithfield Township.

The crash, which occurred on Seven Bridges Road near the corner of Route 447 around 2 p.m., triggered a big response from emergency service personnel because the chemical in the storage tank, bioxide, is explosive and highly flammable.

However, the chemical is only dangerous in powder form. It was in liquid form in the roadside storage tank, according to Joe Quaresimo, chief of Marshalls Creek Fire Company.

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.

REEVES COUNTY - Interstate 20 traffic is being diverted after a tractor trailer rolled in Reeves County.

Both directions of traffic are being affected at this time.

Traffic is being diverted onto the service roads near mile marker 13.

HAZMAT crews are on the scene because of a material spill.

TXDOT officials tell NewsWest 9 the material is believed to be a highly flammable compound cleaning liquid.

The cleanup will take several more hours.

SPRINGFIELD - A spill involving 60 gallons of flammable chemicals at the Solutia compound in Indian Orchard triggered a hazardous materials response from the Springfield Fire Department, officials said.
Springfield Fire Department spokesman Dennis Leger said the spill, reported at 2:44 p.m., was contained inside a concrete holding basin and there was little danger to the public. Workers at the plant at 730 Worcester St. were not evacuated.
There were no injuries.
The spill involved a mixture of the chemicals ethanol, butanol and formaldehyde that Leger said was considered a flammable hazard.
The mixture was diluted with water until it was no longer flammable and then pumped into another tank, he said. The spill was at the Solutia property but did not involve Solutia employees, said company spokesman Erin Shetler. It involved employees with Ineos Melamines, a separate company that occupies space at the Solutia compound.

A 30-year-old man was killed in a freak accident on Wednesday morning while he was working in a plastic recycle factory — Surya Traders in Kaikondanahalli on Sarjapur Main road in R.R. Layout. The deceased identified as Niranjan Ramdev Prasad was a native of Bihar. According to preliminary investigation, the incident took place around 12:30 pm when Niranjan was trying to cut open a 20 litre plastic drum, filled with industrial waste with an electrical cutter.

Accidentally, the chemical drum exploded and he fell on the electrical cutter which cut into his chest and he died on the spot. The blast led to a fire in the factory. The factory workers who were in the premises tried to douse the fire with water. Three fire tenders finally extinguished the fire. Property worth `2 lakh has been destroyed in the fire.

The police suspect that the plastic drum which was filled with highly inflammable substances was tried to cut open without removing its lid and that could have led to the explosion. Police have sent the pieces of drum and other materials to the Forensic Science Laboratory. The HSR Layout police have registered a case against the company owner and will take further action based on the FSL report.

SPOKANE, Wash. - Fire and explosions broke out in a storage trailer at Avista utility's equipment yards Monday afternoon on East Mission Avenue. The fire causes plumes of black smoke so large that Spokane fire crews could see them from the South Hill.

Spokane firefighters received the first call about a fire at Avista's headquarters around noon when a construction storage trailer, with a hydraulic lift, was engulfed in flames. Inside the trailer, fire crews said there was PVC piping, construction materials, and several flammable liquids which sparked several explosions.

Several Avista employees tried to put out the fire with fire extinguishers but firefighters said the blaze grew too large, too fast, especially with the flammable liquids inside the trailer.

No one was hurt.

January 5, 2011, Nashville, TN – The U.S. Chemical Safety Board today released its final report on three accidents that occurred in 2011 at the Hoeganaes powdered metals plant in Gallatin, Tennessee. Flash fires and an explosion killed a total of five workers and injured three others.

The CSB investigation found that significant amounts of fine iron powder had accumulated over time at the Hoeganaes facility, and that while the company knew from its own testing and experience with flash fires in the plant that the dust was combustible, it did not take the necessary action to reduce the hazards through engineering controls and basic housekeeping. The investigation also found that Hoeganaes did not institute procedures such as combustible gas monitoring or provide training for employees on avoiding flammable gas fires and explosions.

The holiday season wasn’t so happy for the families of two workers at the WTI hazardous waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio, across the river from Chester, W.Va.  A week before Christmas, a chemical fire a the facility — now officially known as Heritage-WTI Inc. — left one worker dead and another seriously burned.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said in a statement:

According to company officials a flash fire occurred when workers were splitting a large solid waste drum of hazardous flammable inorganic material into smaller storage drums … Unfortunately accidents at hazardous waste processing facilities are all too common.

(ABC 6 NEWS) -- It's been nearly two weeks after a high school science experiment ended in a tragic accident.

In Maple Grove, four students were injured after their teacher mixed flammable liquids which then exploded.

Since then, schools across the state are reviewing their safety procedures.

Inside your everyday middle school science lab, you've got the basics, your fire extinguisher, your safety goggles. However, inside science teacher Corey Doranck's lab, a brand new safety feature is a little harder to see, they're tables.

"It'll be safe now to have the cords plugged in here," Corey Doranck said.

Before these tables, cords were plugged in at wall outlets clogging walkways for students.

Not only do these tables alleviate that problem, but since they're smaller, they create more space.

Experts say not having enough space to safely conduct experiments is the leading cause of science lab accidents.

The Seattle Fire Department is at the scene of a hazardous materials spill at the University of Washington’s Benson Hall,  the chemical engineering building.

The spill was reported at 5:44 p.m. According to Seattle fire, about 30 people were evacuated from the building. There were no injuries.

The spill occurred when two jars of chemicals fell to the floor. There was concern that if the chemicals mixed, they could be flammable.

Cleanup is now under way, according to the fire department.

Sheriff's Deputies, Decatur County Fire and Rescue, Kendrick and other volunteer firefighters, along with Georgia Forestry and EMS responded Monday afternoon to a potentially dangerous fire.

The fire occurred in a storage area behind True Life Creations Taxidermy located at 2211 Spring Creek Rd.

A spark from a rubbish fire is thought to have blown into a nearby area catching sawdust or paper on fire, according to Decatur County Fire Chief Charlie McCann. In the adjacent area, there was reported to be seven 55 gallon drums of a flammable liquid.

Firefighters were able to contain the fire very quickly averting a potentially dangerous chemical fire.

FARIDABAD: Two people died and around twenty were injured when a fire broke out in a factory on Wednesday. The blaze was reported from Imperial Auto Industries in sector 25 at around 11am, police said.

According to eyewitnesses, the factory workers were heating some chemicals on stove when it backfired. The fire then spread to the nearby drums that were containing thinner and since it is a highly inflammable chemical, the blaze became out of control. Fire brigades were immediately called and the fire was taken into control.

Thirteen persons have received burns and were rushed to Sarvoday Hospital in Sector-8, Faridabad. Two persons, Dinanath and Ranjeet, succumbed to the fire and were declared dead, the medical superintendent said. One of the injured with 90% burns is struggling in the ICU of Sarvoday Hospital. Four people with minor burns are also being treated in the Hospital. Six of the injured with more than 15% burns have been referred to Safdarjang Hospital in Delhi.

CAMPBELL INDUSTRIAL PARK (HawaiiNewsNow) – Fire roared through a warehouse at 91-080 Hanua Street Tuesday damaging several businesses and doing an estimated $800,000 damage to the building and its contents.

Two companies doing business in the warehouse had recently received letters from the state Department of Health critical of the way they stored, labeled, and disposed of flammable liquids. An investigator is still working to determine how the fire started.

"The flames shot at least 40 feet above the height of the building. It was pretty devastating. The smoke was thick. You couldn't even see in the building at all. I mean I thought the whole building was going to be destroyed," said John Meyers who operates Innovative Housing Solutions, a steel home framing company, in the warehouse and leases warehouse space to six other companies.

Federal authorities are on their way to Kingsport after preliminary tests on a suspicious package — confiscated during the Nov. 20 KPD arrest of a Liberian man wanted by the Department of Homeland Security — have identified it as a possible biological agent.

The Kingsport Police Department, courts and support facilities were evacuated Tuesday as authorities tested air qualities within the Justice Center. Kingsport police and fire officials have described the suspicious materials as a clay-type ball wrapped in plant matter, comparable to a corn husk. It has allegedly tested positive for proteins and as a flammable solid — a combination HAZMAT units report as present in biological weaponry.

"That gives us a red flag," said KPD Chief Gale Osborne, adding the FBI will conduct further testing on the object's components.

"It could be nothing, or it could be. If it's biological, that's the concern."

WILLIAMSVILLE -- Williamsville residents who live within one-quarter mile of Love’s Truck Stop off Interstate 55 were advised to stay inside Monday night because of a hazardous material leak.

Tom Nases, a lieutenant with the Williamsville Fire Department, said a tractor-trailer truck parked at Love’s leaked a hazardous liquid called ethyl acrylate stabilized.

Love’s, along with the attached McDonalds and the Huddle House, all near the Interstate 55 exit ramp at Williamsville, were evacuated. People were at first advised not to use their furnaces and other heating devices, but that warning was dropped later in the evening.

The chemical, which is flammable, can cause dizziness and nausea to some people if inhaled, Nases said. Authorities first arrived at the site about 5:30 p.m.

VAIL PASS – The city of Vail's water supply was not contaminated after semi-trailer hauling hazardous material rolled over on Vail Pass, tests show.

The truck was carrying about 4,000 gallons of flammable liquid, which potentially spilled into Black Gore Creek. Officials tested Vail’s water supply for any potential contamination.

The Health and Safety Executive has prosecuted Thor Specialities Ltd as a result of a potentially fatal chemical reaction at its plant in Wincham, Northwich on 23 August 2007.

An employee at the plant had been mixing solid and liquid chemicals which eventually caused the release of both toxic and flammable substances into the workplace laboratory.

The employee had continued to mix the chemicals together after mistakenly presuming that as there was no initial reaction to the mixing process that it was safe to continue doing so.

However the chemical reaction suddenly got out of control and generated the hazardous substances into the working environment. The chemicals had reacted so rapidly that it became impossible for the employee to bring the situation safely under control and he had to flee the building.

Not much sleep for some HAZMAT crews Saturday morning.

Around 1:30am, Fire Rescue was called to Grimshaw Trucking at 115 Avenue and 151 Street when 1,100 litres of isopropylene alcohol began leaking from a container in the back of a trailer.

Fortunately, not all of the flammable liquid escaped the container, and crews were able to transfer it to another one.

No injuries and because the compound is in an industrial area, the leak did not threaten any residential areas.

Bangalore, Oct 8 (PTI) A worker sustained minor injuries after a minor explosion occured near a marble factory here today, police said. He was discharged from hospital after administering first aid, police told PTI. According to police, the explosion occurred when the workers of the marble factory were throwing the remaining inflammable chemical used for marble polishing, in a dustbin outside the factory. A case has been registed against the factory owner.

PERU — A chemical spill at Peru Middle High School prompted an evacuation of the building Tuesday morning.

Interim School Superintendent A. Paul Scott said that during early morning classes on Tuesday, a teacher and some students noticed a smell emanating from an OSHA-approved flammable cabinet located in a High School science lab.

The smell was apparently the result of a chemical spill in the cabinet, which was directly vented into a chemical vapor hood, immediately removing vapors from the building.

Scott said Tuesday afternoon that he believed the incident had caused no harm to students, faculty or staff.

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The school promptly notified Clinton County Emergency Services, the Peru Fire Department, the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Conservation, and Scott said the agencies responded quickly.

“It’s best to have all agencies involved,” he said. “I appreciate very much their assistance throughout the morning and day.”

In consultation with these agencies, it was decided that the school should be evacuated as a precautionary measure, so about 1,000 students in grades 6 through 12 were brought to the primary and intermediate school campus, where they were picked up by school buses and released just before noon.

A massive fire broke out in two dyeing units in Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) phase II here on Wednesday killing four people and injuring 12. The fire was sparked due to some mechanical fault in Pooja Dyeing, and spread to SV Fabrics, which is adjacent to it.
Four industrial workers, Kuldeep Mohilee, 35, Nandkumar Jha, 40, Mohiddin Garib Miya ,52, and Ramprakash Tiwari, 40, were killed in the fire.  Dilip Gund, the deputy chief fire officer of MIDC, Dombivli said: “We got a phone call at 3.40am, informing us of the fire. When we reached the spot, the fire had begun to spread, so we had to control it and not let it spread to other units.”

When the fire broke out, around 100 employees were in the factory. While some managed to rush out, a few were trapped in the building. “It took four hours and 12 fire tenders to extinguish it. We rescued 18 employees from the first and second floors.” 

Prima facie, it was found that a pipeline carrying some inflammable chemical burst and the chemical caught fire. “It then assumed gigantic proportions as the store room contained clothes, paper and other material that fed the fire,” said Gund.

ARABI, ST. BERNARD PARISH—

State Police Hazmat crews worked to contain formic acid that was leaking from a rail car early Wednesday morning.  The east and westbound lanes of St. Claude Avenue near Center Street in Arabi were shut down for a few hours.

 An observant railroad worker spotted the leak and called authorities around 7 a.m.  Fire Chief Thomas Stone says the situation could have been a lot worse.

“It could have been a danger to people’s heath. It’s flammable and is also a health hazard. It’s 95% formic acid in that rail car but would have had to have had a larger leak and a vapor cloud to cause harm. And none of that occurred, thank goodness,” said St. Bernard Fire Chief, Thomas Stone.

WAUWATOSA, Wis. -- The Wauwatosa Fire Department is on the scene of a hazardous materials incident near the Medical College of Wisconsin.
A fire department spokesperson confirmed they had responded to a HAZMAT situation at 11001 W. Plank Ct.
The address is a Wheaton Franciscan laboratory located near Highway 100 and Watertown Plank Rd.
A representative with Wheaton Franciscan told 12 News that an employee discovered a leak in a solvent recycling machine. While employees contained the spill, the fire department was called part of their standard procedure.
When the Wauwatosa Fire Department arrived on scene, they asked for HazMat to also respond as the solvent involved was highly flammable.
The Milwaukee Fire Department HazMat team was also asked to respond to the scene.

Firefighters from all across McMinn County were called to a large furniture fire in Riceville early Wednesday morning.

In all, ten different stations helped battle a blaze at McDonalds Custom Cabinets and Furniture on Highway 11.  Owner Bryan McDonald said the fire started around 9:15 a.m.

He said one of the store's employees were working with a flammable chemical in the spray room.  The material, which the store often uses, somehow caught flame and burnt down the rest of the building, according to McDonald.

"It was like a matchstick," he said. "When it [the fire] went, there was nothing to stop it."

ITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- Little Rock Police are giving the all clear after a small fire shut down production  L.M. Wind Power.

According to Adam Ruple with L.M. Wind Power, an accident at the facility on Frazier Pike set a chemical cabinet, filled with a highly flammable material, on fire around 10:30 am Wednesday.

Ruple says staff tried to put it out themselves, but when they could not, police and HAZMAT teams were called.

Authorities evacuated the plant and shut down production until the fire was contained.

Crews worked into the early morning hours last night to clean up a hazardous spill after a tanker truck exploded at the TA Travel Center truck stop off I-94 in Sawyer after 7 p-m. The explosion was heard and felt for miles around the site. No injuries were reported. The chemical that leaked may have been Butanone, a flammable and explosive liquid used for welding or a solvent. Traffic continued to flow through I-94, but the exit from eastbound 94 was closed well into the wee hours of the morning.

Fire crews tackle a huge spill of flammable liquid at a chemical plant in Dayton.
     Around 900 gallons of the liquid spilled at the Fuji Hunt plant on manufacturers road around 7 a-m.
     Firefighters from Rhea and Hamilton Counties responded to clean up the spill.
     It took more than four hours to clear the scene.
     There are no reports of injuries or evacuations.

Two Glendale firefighters sustained minor injuries Thursday morning while responding to a fire in a residential garage that was used to store ammunition and hazardous materials, officials said.

The unknown nature of the chemicals, the explosions of fuel containers, and the fire setting off ammunition rounds at 6:21 a.m. in the 1100 block of North Isabel Street prompted authorities to evacuate six adjacent homes and six others on Jackson Street, Battalion Chief Vincent Rifino said.

Hazmat crews were called in along with Los Angeles County public health officials to clean up the controlled chemicals, for which the homeowner, a retired chemist, had a license to own, officials said.

The homeowner, Bob DeVoe, told fire crews he didn’t know what types of chemicals were inside his home or backyard because he had been collecting the substances for many years, Rifino said.

DeVoe was also a firearms enthusiast, Rifino added.

“We were dealing with an emergency of electrical with ammunitions, hazardous materials and flammable liquids,” he said.

Blvd., Wickliffe.

Initial indications are the fire may have been related to a highly flammable gas that is a byproduct of the chemical process used at the plant, according to a Wickliffe Division of Fire media release.

According to Wickliffe fire officials, multiple employees of the manufacturing plant called 911 at 5:41 p.m. Sunday to report a fire inside the plant.

Mutual aid at the scene was provided by Willowick, Willoughby, Euclid, Highland Heights, Willoughby Hills and Mentor fire departments, while Eastlake fire personnel manned Wickliffe’s fire station during the incident. Lake County Fire Investigation Unit is looking into the cause of the fire.

The fire was reported to be under control by 6:07 p.m., according to Wickliffe fire officials. The fire was contained to one reactor in the plant and does not pose a hazard to the community, according to the statement.

Several fire trucks, ambulances, police cruisers, a hazmat team and a bomb squad were on the scene at the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts building on Turnpike Street Wednesday afternoon.

Children and staff were quickly evacuated from the building, and emergency crews stood ready for action. Traffic backed up as concerned commuters gazed at the scene. A couple hours later, the danger was removed and the building was fine.

What terrifying items were found that caused this panic? Gauze pads.

"A member of the North Andover Fire Department was called by the staff," Girl Scouts spokesperson Allison Rubin said. "They were concerned that first aid kits had become a fire hazard."

In the 1930s and 1940s, gauze contained acid, used in treating burns.

"It was very common back then," Rubin said.

But over time, when the material breaks down, it has the potential to become flammable. The chemicals that the Girl Scouts' gauze were saturated with had crystalized and had become a fire hazard and potentially explosive. So the staff at the Girl Scouts called the Fire Department.

When the first aid kits were taken apart, aking the chemicals more vulnerable to explosion, the Fire Department then brought in a hazmat team -- made up of firefighters from several area communities -- and the state bomb squad, Fire Lt. Robert Bonenfant said.

"Especially when dealing with chemicals and volatile substances, we always go on the side of caution," Bonenfant said.

There were no fires or injuries, and Bonenfant added that the building is fine now. All of the potentially harmful materials were removed and brought to the local recycling center, where they were destroyed.

NANNING - Eight people were killed and six other injured after a truck carrying flammable chemicals exploded in a parking lot Tuesday afternoon in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, local authorities said.

The blast occurred at around 6:30 pm in the Litang township of Binyang county when workers were unloading the truck which carried flammable chemicals including potassium chlorate and carbon powder, said a spokesman with the county government's information office.

A preliminary investigation showed that workers' carelessness may have triggered the explosion, said the spokesman.

The fire from the blast engulfed over 20 cars at the carpark, which used to be a gas station, said the spokesman.

YPSUM, Colorado — Emergency cleanup crews responded to the Highway 6 Store in Gypsum around 11 a.m. Thursday after a semi-truck driver noticed some of his hazardous cargo was leaking.

The Highway 6 Store is a Shell gas station located near the Interstate 70 interchange.

A drum of acentonitrile — which is sometimes used as a paint-thinner or cleaning product and can be highly flammable — spilled in the back of a FedEx truck.

“I saw a leak and did what I was supposed to do,” the driver said before declining further comment.

The gas station, the Gypsum Grill and a liquor store were evacuated while crews handled the mess.

“Acentonitrile tends to collect, so the wind (was) a good thing,” said Gypsum Fire Protection District Chief Dave Vroman.

Harpersville Firefighters Mark Lewis and Jeff Blankenship notified residents of 15 homes to evacuate Friday afternoon after ten cars of a CSX freight train overturned about a half mile south of US 280 in the area of Dead Hollow Road and Rock School Road about 2 Friday afternoon.

At least some of the cars contained four chemicals considered hazardous. Capt. Wade Holley who works with both the Harpersville and Vincent fire departments and was the incident commander, said the chemicals were corrosive, highly flammable and toxic if inhaled.

The Pelham HazMat unit, Alabaster and Calera Decontamination units, a representative from the Emergency Management Agency and the Westover Fire Department responded to offer assistance, and the Chelsea Fire Department was on standby to cover calls for Harpersville, Vincent and Westover if needed.

New Haven, Conn. (WTNH) - A section of Brewery Street in New Haven was closed for several hours overnight after a hazardous materials scare.

Hazmat and fire crews were called out Wednesday night to investigate a spill at  Maritime International , a food distributor.

It happened around 8:30 p.m. There was an ammonia leak in a cold storage unit. Ammonia can cause irritation and even be flammable.

(DALLAS – May 25, 2011) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in cooperation with the City of Wabbaseka, Arkansas Department of Emergency Management (ADEM), Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently removed about 300 abandoned chemical containers from a demolished school in Wabbaseka, Arkansas. The chemicals removed included flammables, oxidizers, corrosive acids, corrosive bases, toxics and non-regulated materials.

“People living around the demolished school can rest assured that their health and safety will not be compromised from potentially dangerous materials,” said Al Armendariz EPA Regional Administrator. “Thanks to the collaborative effort of the EPA, ADEQ, FDA, ADEM and the City of Wabbaseka, a potentially dangerous situation has been defused.”

The site is the former Wabbaseka High School Science Laboratory chemical storage room. The school was abandoned in 1996 and demolished in January 2011. During the demolition, authorities discovered the chemical storage room contained various laboratory chemicals. However, demolition contractors completed demolition of the school building with the exception of the chemical storage room.

HILLIARD -- The leak of five gallons of a highly flammable chemical from a crashed 6,000-gal. tanker is stalling one final lane of Interstate-270 reopening on Columbus west side, ABC6/FOX28 News' A.J. Ross reports.

Columbus Division of Fire chief Mike Fowler says crews are digging along the edge of the road where the crash and spill happened to gauge any threat posed by alpha-methylstyrene -- a fast-burning, highly flammable chemical.

Solvent Resource Management Ltd has been fined £150,000 after a spill released waste solvents and water at its chemical plant in Rye, East Sussex.

A steel tank holding solvent and contaminated water collapsed onto a retaining wall, releasing the fluids into the surrounding land.

The 340 tonnes of solvent and water was potentially hazardous and highly flammable, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

The tank was found to have been damaged by internal corrosion.

A second tank was damaged during the accident, knocking off a valve which also released contaminated waste water on to the site and neighbouring property.

The area was cordoned off by East Sussex Fire for two days due to the potentially hazardous nature of the incident.

A major fire broke out in a chemical factory that was packed with inflammable material in Dera Bassi town of Punjab Sunday, officials said. No casualties have been reported. According to fire officials here, the blaze could have been caused by an electrical short-circuit. Dera Bassi in Mohali distri ct is around 15 km from the state capital Chandigarh.
"Around 10 fire extinguisher vans were pressed into service. The fire broke out at 5.30 a.m. and it took over four hours to bring it under control. The presence of highly inflammable material in the factory's godown made our work difficult," Fire Officer Avatar Singh told IANS Sunday.

BREVARD - Emergency crews were at the scene of a possible methamphetamine lab fire in Transylvania County on Saturday.

The blaze occurred on Mountain Glen Road in Brevard at about 5 p.m., FOX Carolina News reported.

When police, who were there on a disturbance call, confronted the three people inside the home, someone sprayed the officers in the face with an unknown substance, deputies said.

The residents then set the apartment on fire, police said.

Firefighters were able to put the fire out quickly, but one firefighter and three officers were injured.

The three people in the home were taken into custody with charges pending, police said.

Brevard City Manager Joseph Moore told FOX Carolina News that a hazmat team did not find any substances at the scene, so they assume that the chemical was some sort of flammable liquid.

According to Moore, three of the four first responders taken to an area hospital were released.

Investigators have reopened all the apartment units at the scene except the apartment where the fire occurred.

Primary Agency: Brevard Fire Department

GRAND RAPIDS -- A mistake by a hazmat crew is being blamed for gutting the old Kindel furniture factory in Grand Rapids. The smoke could be seen for dozens of miles.  The huge factory caught fire when a crew cut thru a lacquer pipe with a reciprocating saw and sparks ignited the flammable liquid, around noon yesterday.

Traffic is flowing smoothly on I-10 near Biloxi after an 18-wheeler leaked flammable chemicals early Wednesday morning.

Biloxi Police told WLOX News the truck was heading east through Gulfport when the driver first noticed a strong odor. The driver pulled over at a Biloxi truck stop and discovered his chemical load was leaking.

Hazmat crews are still at the scene right now. Police don't know how long the chemicals were spilling out, nor are they telling us what type if chemical was leaking.

No injuries have been reported.

The driver of a tanker truck carrying a chemical wrecked in a Doddridge County creek Wednesday, emergency officials said.
It happened on state Route 23 about a mile south of Center Point.

The driver hit a turn too fast, lost control, went through a guardrail, over an embankment and landed in a creek, spilling its chemical into the water, authorities said.

There is an ignition and respiratory concern, so crews are keeping residents out of the area, but they're not evacuating.

Route 23 will be closed for several hours while crews clean up the area.

They have to extract the chemical from one of the tanks to the other before removing the truck from the creek.

HAMPSHIRE, TX -- A section of I-10 is shut down until at least tomorrow night after a hazardous chemical leak.

A big rig carrying the flammable chemical isobutene collided with a pickup early yesterday morning, completely shutting down the freeway from Highway 73 near Winnie to FM 365.

DPS says early yesterday morning, the 18-wheeler driver tried to pass a Ford pickup hauling a race car. The rig driver says he thought he saw oncoming traffic and tried to get out of the way when he hit the Ford.

Nearly 70 residents of a nearby subdivision had to be evacuated to a Red Cross shelter.

I-49 Northbound has been shut down from Pont de Mouton to Gloria Switch Road.

A truck carrying a mixture of flammable liquids flipped at around 11-AM Wednesday morning, leaking its cargo onto Frontage road.

State Police, Lafayette Sheriffs Depuites and Lafayette Police have I-49 blocked-off as Lafayette firefighters inspect and clean-up the spill.

WELCOME - Hazardous-materials crews averted a potential disaster yesterday morning when they quickly contained a chemical spill from a tanker that overturned on N.C. 150, authorities said.
The wreck occurred near the banks of Reedy Creek. The ground near the creek soaked up some of the 8,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals that spilled from the tanker, which was making a delivery to a business along the highway, said Doug Lowe, Davidson County's emergency-services director.
The Arcadia Fire Department quickly used a long pipe with a fiber net that absorbed much of the remaining chemicals, Lowe said. That device also acted like a dam to prevent the chemicals from reaching the creek.

A tanker carrying hazardous chemicals jack-knifed on N.C. 150 just before 8 this morning, forcing the evacuation of homes and businesses near Reedy Creek.
N.C. 150 is closed between Friendship Church Road and Hampton Road. The accident happened near Kurz Transfer Products, a company that makes metallic foils.
Drivers are urged to avoid this area if possible. A detour has been set-up from Byerly Road to Old Mill Farm Road to Hampton Road back to Highway 150. The road will likely be closed for 8 to 12 hours, said Doug Lowe, the emergency-services director for Davidson County.
Lowe said that the truck was hauling ethanol ethylacetate, toluene and methyl ethyl ketone -- all flammable solvents. Toluene is the most worrisome, Lowe said, because it is so highly flammable.
Hazardous-materials crews from as far away as Greensboro are trying to contain the spill, and they are putting foam on it to neutralize the chemicals and prevent a fire.