TUCSON - Investigators are working to determine the cause of a chemical spill at a plant on Tucson's south side.

Tucson Fire Captain Jeff Langejans says around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, an operator from Sasol North America's plant in the 7800 block of South Kolb Road, noticed that hydrochloric acid (HC1) was pooling in a spill containment area.

After investigating, workers determined that a 12,000 gallon HC1 above-ground storage tank was leaking at a rate of five gallons per minute. The chemical is 35% solution and is extremely corrosive.

Workers started off-loading the tank, which had approximately 9,000 gallons. An estimated 4,000 gallons of the liquid had been spilled into the secondary containment area.

Tucson Fire crews responded around 5 a.m. as a precautionary measure. They remained on scene until the leaking tank was emptied into other storage tanks.

No employees or firefighters were injured.

SOUTHBRIDGE —  A chlorine gas scare in a building in the former American Optical complex triggered a hazmat response shortly after 8 yesterday morning.

Acting Fire Chief Mark W. DiFronzo said workers from three companies in a Southbridge Business Center building at 15 Wells St. were evacuated for several hours when an employee at the Schott North America mistakenly mixed hydrochloric acid and sodium hypochlorite, which produced a small amount of chlorine gas.

“When the employee noticed the reaction, he immediately stopped what he was doing, donned a respirator and evacuated employees from the building,” acting Chief DiFronzo said.

He said workers in the building implemented an emergency response plan, evacuating about 100 people from Schott and other businesses in the building; they were allowed to return after about four hours.

“There were no injuries and the public was never in any danger,” he said.

SIKESTON, Mo.  — Sikeston Public Safety is reporting an active Haz-Mat incident at Sikeston’s Board of Municipal Utilities Power Plant.
Around 4:30am Sunday, the Sikeston BMU Power Plant reported a trailer containing hydrochloric acid exploded at their facility.  The catastrophic failure of this container resulted in a 7,500 gallon spill.  Sikeston DPS immediately dispatched their Haz-Mat team to the site to evaluate the incident.
It was learned that the spill was confined to the immediate area of the incident and no one was injured during the release.  It isn’t known at this time what caused the pressurized container to fail, but we know that fire was not the cause.  This type of chemical release requires a relatively short evacuation distance, which fell inside the property of the BMU facility.  At no time was anyone outside the property lines of the power plant in any danger.  Residents who live nearby the Sikeston Power Plant are completely free of any danger.  In addition the Power plant did not suffer any significant damage.
According to BMU, this incident has had no effect on their operation.  Every year BMU has a planned outage to conduct yearly maintenance at their facility.  The Power Plant was currently going through this annual maintenance when this incident occurred.  As a result, this incident did not disrupt their service.

GALLIPOLIS FERRY — A chemical leak at the ICL-IP plant in Gallipolis Ferry led to a shelter-in-place order in surrounding areas, including across the Ohio River in Gallia County.

The leak occurred around 3:18 p.m. on Friday afternoon.

According to a press release from ICL America, Inc., the plant experienced an “emergency event” that involved the release of phosphorus trichloride liquid and hydrochloric acid fumes due to a pump failure.

The company says the liquid phosphorus trichloride release was contained on site, but the hydrochloric acid fumes left the site.

Point Pleasant Fire Chief Jeremy Bryant and his department were among the first responders dispatched to the scene. Bryant said it appeared the chemical cloud traveled north of the plant but appeared to dissipate near R and L Trucking along W.Va. 2.

The shelter-in-place order lasted around 30 minutes.

People are back to work at Marque Dental Lab after Hazmat crews spent hours cleaning up an accidental acid spill. The good news is the chemical in the South Fargo spill wasn't as dangerous as they first thought.

The Fargo Fire Department says around 9 this morning at this dental lab, about a half-gallon of hydrochloric acid was spilled all over the floor.

Matt Nelson – Fargo Fire Department: "If you get it into your lungs or onto your skin it can cause a chemical burn or severe respiratory damage depending on the concentrations."

When the Fargo Fire Department arrived at Marque Dental Laboratory, just off of 13th Avenue South, and 23rd Street, they thought the spill could be hydrofluoric acid, forcing firefighters to wear full protection hazmat suits.

It turns out it was the more commonly known hydrochloric acid. Right after the spill workers quickly doused it with baking soda, and called 9-1-1 quickly after fumes erupted.

SAN ANTONIO -
Three children were sent to the hospital following a hydrochloric acid vapor leak at a Northwest Side fitness club Thursday evening.

Hazmat crews were called the Spectrum Fitness Club in the 11700 block of Bandera Road after the children and three other teens began complaining of burning eyes, coughing and throat irritation in the pool area.

Fire officials say the vapor leak was caused by an apparent malfunction with a pump attached to a container with the hydrochloric acid.

The three children were taken to the hospital for treatment. The teens were treated at the scene.

Two students were arrested Wednesday after Bountiful police said they detonated four small homemade bombs around the city, including one inside their high school.

Bountiful police Sgt. Gary Koehn said the detonation of the small chemical bomb at Bountiful High School was one of four that occurred about 8:20 a.m. No one was injured and no property damage was reported.

Koehn said the other three bombs, one of which went off in a church parking lot about a block away, exploded in the neighborhoods surrounding the high school.

Koehn said the students — a 16-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man — said they tossed the bombs at random because they wanted to "hear the loud boom." He said the two didn’t intend to hurt anyone.

The bombs were constructed from several household items combined in a plastic water bottle, Koehn said. He said the homemade devices spewed hydrochloric acid and created loud bangs.

GEISMAR, La. (AP) - State environmental officials say an explosion and fire last month at the Westlake Chemical Corp. complex in Geismar was the fifth and most significant release of chemicals at the plant since the beginning of 2010.

The Advocate reports that the March 22 fire primarily released hydrochloric acid, chlorine and vinyl chloride monomer. Records of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality say those release exceeding the one-hour permit level for those chemicals and at least three other compounds.

No one was injured in the explosion. The cause is still under investigation.

Westlake said it bought the complex in 2002 from Borden Chemical and spent nearly $20 million for environmental and safety improvements. The plant was built in the mid-1970s.

SAN ANTONIO -- Hazmat units responded to a hydrochloric acid leak in the northbound lanes of I-10 west near DeZavala Road late Tuesday afternoon.
The roadway was still closed Wednesday morning although it was originally suspected to reopen around 2 a.m. Traffic is being diverted to the access road and also to Huebner Road to Vance Jackson to DeZavala Road and back to I-10 west.
A spokesman for TxDOT said they are unsure how long it could take to clear the roadway, and that unsuspected setbacks have delayed the cleanup.
The spill occurred after an 18-wheeler hauling the acid was involved in a major accident near Woodstone. 
The concern is that if the leak is not contained in time, that 3,000 gallons of the acid could eat the highway.  That could be a costly consequence and a threat to public health.

Oak Lawn, IL —
All three lanes of southbound Interstate 294 remain closed during rush hour as crews offload an acid spill caused by a tanker truck rollover on the highway near Oak Lawn.

The truck was carrying thousands of pounds of hydrochloric acid about 1:30 p.m. when it rolled between the Cicero Avenue and 95th Street exits on Interstate 294. The southbound lanes and one northbound lanes will be closed until about 7 p.m., state police said.

TERRE HAUTE — The eastbound on-ramp to Interstate 70 from U.S. 41 remains closed this morning following a chemical spill.

Indiana State Police, Terre Haute Fire and Police departments and Vigo County Emergency Management officials all responded to a reported chemical spill at about 7:20 this morning.

Preliminary investigation found the driver of a truck pulling a flatbed trailer was northbound on U.S. 41 and attempted a right turn onto the eastbound ramp of I-70.

During the traffic maneuver, two 55-gallon plastic containers of hydrochloric acid fell onto the pavement. One of the containers began leaking and spilled approximately 15-20 gallons of the hazardous chemical onto the pavement before being contained by members of the Terre Haute Fire Department. There were no injuries reported by anyone associated with the spill.

WHITE COUNTY, Ark. (KTHV) - Hazmat crews in White County are working to clean up a spill from a overturned tanker.  

Deputies say that just after 9:30 Tuesday night a tanker truck carrying 3,000 gallons of hydrochloric acid turned over at the intersection of Shilo and Peanut Ridge roads.

Corporal Steve Hernandez with the White County Sherrif's Department told Today's THV that only 100 gallons spilled.

GULFPORT -- A spokesman for Channel Chemical Corp. has issued a statement reassuring the public that a spill of 500 to 1,000 gallons of corrosive liquid on its property poses no threat to the public.
Seaway Road has reopened after being shut down more than an hour this morning for emergency response to the business on Seaway near Three Rivers Road.
An environmental source earlier today told the Sun Herald the leak involved a valve malfunction on a tank behind the business, where the malfunction leaked phosphorous acid, hydrochloric acid and a type of ethanol.

Police and fire officials responded to Winthrop University Monday afternoon on calls of a chemical spill.
A student accidentally spilled about a third of a gallon beaker of hydrochloric acid just after 1 p.m. in a Dalton Hall laboratory, said Winthrop spokeswoman Judy Longshaw.
He immediately alerted university officials, she said. The room was sealed off, and the second floor was evacuated for safety reasons. No one was injured.
Campus Police, two Rock Hill Fire Department trucks, York County EMS and York County Emergency Management all responded to help clean up the acid with the proper materials.

SPRING, Texas - Hazmat crews responded to the scene of a chemical spill near an RV sales lot located on Interstate 45 and Spring-Steubner.

Views from Houston Transtar showed several fire trucks on the scene as early as 7 a.m. Wednesday. As of noon, several trucks remained on the scene and the northbound frontage road was still shut down.

The shutdown is expected to last until early afternoon.

When emergency crews first arrived they discovered a hydrochloric acid leak. A passerby told FOX 26 News he saw a yellow cloud above the spill.

The Turner Turnpike was closed in both directions between Tulsa and Kellyville, after a semi hauling hydrochloric acid started leaking Wednesday afternoon. 
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation and Oklahoma Highway Patrol closed closed the highway for fear fumes may have affected travelers, and evacuations of nearby homes along the turnpike followed.
Hydrochloric acid can create toxic gasses if mixed with water. 
The driver of the tanker involved noticed a spill as he was westbound on the Turner Turnpike and contacted authorities about 2:40 p.m.

San Luis Obispo City Firefighters spent the morning responding to a report of a chemical spill from a package at the UPS facility.

The facility is located on Sacramento Drive in San Luis Obispo.

The San Luis Obispo fire marshal tells our reporter at the scene, that sometime after 8:00 a.m. Wednesday morning, the chemical spill was reported to the San Luis Obispo Fire Department.

The fire marshal says firefighters assessed the situation, and found fuming hydrochloric acid leaking from a package. The chemical has various uses and is used in industrial situations.

Firefighters determined the situation did not require a full hazmat scene, but the building was evacuated as a precaution.

Two resort employees were hospitalized after they were exposed to dangerous pool-cleaning chemicals that had been mixed incorrectly, Orange County Fire Rescue officials said.

Emergency personnel responded to the Sheraton Vistana Villas resort at 12401 International Drive this morning after resort security reported that the employees were injured while moving a drum containing chlorine, muriatic acid and algaecide, according to spokesman John Mulhall.

The employees were trying to move the liquids away from hotel guests after they were mixed.

PEARL, Miss. -- Interstate 20 was shut down between Pearson Road and U.S. Highway 49 in Pearl on Monday night after hydrochloric acid spilled onto the road.
The Mississippi Department of Transportation said hazmat crews were called to the scene of the 250-gallon spill at the Vitran Express on Becknell Road at about 7 p.m.
Pearl police said warehouse workers were loading the 500-gallon container of acid when it fell off a forklift. About half of the contents spilled onto the roadway.
People were advised to stay in their home and motorists were asked to avoid the area. Several nearby businesses were also evacuated.

Fire brigades from Picton, Blenheim and Nelson attended a chemical spill in a shipping container at the Picton Railyard this morning.

Picton Volunteer Fire Brigade station officer Steve McKeown said the shipping container was carrying 12 1000 litre containers of hydrochloric acid, acetic acid and another chemical used for cleaning dairy equipment.

One of the 1000 litre containers of hydrochloric acid developed a leak through its top and lost about 10 litres of the chemical.

Ottawa Fire Services and hazmat crews responded to a chemical reaction in a garbage truck on Beechwood Avenue near Marquette Avenue in Ottawa’s east end.

Spokesperson Marc Messier said the truck pulled up in front of the fire hall and had some smoke coming out of the back.

Messier said that muriatic acid in the back of the truck had reacted with another substance, but it’s unknown what the other substance was.

He said the type of acid is known for its use in pools and scoring concrete.

A strong odor due to muriatic acid used by a contractor to clean caused an evacuation of Marlboro Medical Center yesterday morning on Rt. 9.

Police Captain Steve Mennona said Monmouth County Hazmat, the Marlboro Office of Emergency Management and Morganville First Aid responded to the scene.

Six people reported feeling ill and were treated by first aid on the scene, no patients were transported to the hospital.

AN JUAN CAPISTRANO – A chemical spill Tuesday shut down all lanes on the northbound I-5 between San Juan Creek Road and Camino Capistrano for nearly two hours, authorities said. The spill has now been cleaned up.
Just before 11 a.m. the California Highway Patrol began receiving reports of the spill emitting strong fumes in traffic lanes.

A hazardous material unit with the Orange County Fire Authority determined that approximately six gallons of muriatic acid spilled off a truck, said Capt. Marc Stone with the OCFA.
Traffic was at a standstill between San Juan Creek Road and Camino Capistrano, said Stone, who was at the scene of the spill.
The hazmat unit neutralized the acidic substance, used for pool cleaning, at approximately 12:30 p.m., Stone said.
No injuries were reported and nearby businesses did not need to be evacuated, Stone added.

A tanker truck carrying hydrochloric acid flipped over on a road in Lincoln County Wednesday night, causing people in the area to close their windows to avoid the fumes.

The accident happened on Highway 698. Officials say the truck was carrying 78,000 pounds of hydrochloric acid to a water treatment plant when it ran off the road. Hazmat crews say only a few gallons leaked from the tanker, but people in the area were warned to shut their windows and doors because of the fumes.

At around 7:31 a.m., Delray Beach Fire Rescue reported to the chemical spill at NW Eleventh Street near NW Fifth Avenue, where units found two containers containing muriatic acid and chlorine.

Delray Beach Fire Rescue Public Relations officer Lt. Curtis Jepsen said the container with muriatic acid had spilled and was emptied onto the ground.

“The chlorine jug was leaking and still contained fluid,” Jepsen said.

While units worked to contain the chemical, Jepsen said residents in the surrounding area were advised to stay indoors.

After the chlorine jug was contained, the entire area was washed down with water until the HAZMAT team got normal readings on all monitoring equipment.

Authorities on Tuesday afternoon briefly evacuated Hackettstown High School after the strong odor of chemicals overtook a high school science lab, according to town police.

Authorities responded about 3:15 to the Warren Street school after staff there detected an overwhelming chemical odor, police report.

After a brief investigation by the Hackettstown police, Hackettstown Fire Department and the Warren County Hazardous Materials Team, it was determined the smelly culprit was a leaking bottle of hydrochloric acid in one of the science room's supply cabinets.

Authorities removed the bottle and cleaned up the residue from the highly corrosive acid, police said. Staff and students inside the school after hours were ordered to leave for one hour as a precaution.

Hazardous Material  (HAZMAT) crews responded to a reported chemical spill at the Annapolis Water Reclamation Facility at 7228 Edgewood Road early Monday afternoon.

The report came in just before noon, said Tony Spencer, a spokesman for the Annapolis Fire Department.

The chemical in the incident has been identified as hydrochloric acid. Half a liter of the substance was spilled in the basement, according to an updated news release from Spencer.

Spencer said in the release that the acid was contained and neutralized.

JACKSON — Card players at the Westlake Clubhouse, in a senior community, were reluctant to leave their card games behind when police ordered them to evacuate Thursday night after a leak of muriatic acid and sodium chloride was discovered in the maintenance room of the clubhouse, police said.

A 911 call was placed by a maintenance worker about 9:30 p.m. Thursday when the spill was discovered during a routine check, Sgt. John Decker. The employees evacuated the building and informed the residents to do the same. However, the card players would not leave their games and belongings, Decker said.

Card enthusiasts had to be told several times by police to evacuate the building because of the potentially dangerous mix of hazardous materials, Decker said. The residents complied eventually at the insistence of police, Decker said.

A rest area on Interstate 77 has been closed since 11 a.m. after an inspector smelled the odor of hydrochloric acid coming from a truck.

Bath Township Fire Department Lt. George Seifert said the Ohio Highway Patrol officer who smelled the vapor coming from a tanker truck was hospitalized briefly, but was not injured.

"He was under the truck and wasn't able to get out right away, so we did that as a precaution.  The tanker was empty, he just smelled a little bit of the acid coming from a hose. There was only a little left -- less than a cup."

Houston Highway from Burroughsville Road to Telferner remains closed because of a hydrochloric acid spill at Halliburton Energy Services in Victoria.

The spill occurred about 11 p.m. Thursday from an 11,000-gallon above-ground tank at Halliburton at U.S. 59 and Holt Road, Victoria Fire Department Battalion Chief Shannon Martin said Friday morning. He said he was unsure how much of the chemical spilled, but it was contained by a diking system set up by Halliburton.

"We took all of the precautions,' Martin said. "Nobody was at risk in the area."

Homeowners in the Brentwood subdivision near the spill are being allowed to leave the neighborhood this morning but can only go south on U.S. 59, he said. Northbound traffic is being diverted to Burroughsville Road.

MONTGOMERY – A potential chemical spill shut down Texas 105 West and Walden Road for several hours Wednesday before it was deemed safe to be reopened.
About 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, a truck hauling hydrochloric acid nearly spilled its load onto Texas 105, causing emergency crews to shut down the highway and Walden Road, Montgomery Fire Department Chief Brian Edwards said.
“His load shifted and went through the trailer,” Edwards said. “... There was no spill. We thought there was a spill.”
The truck was carrying 11 containers, roughly 150 gallons each, of hydrochloric acid, Edwards said.

AZMAT crews have been called to an acid spill in Adelaide's inner northeast.

Firefighters received reports of a chemical leaking on to a footpath from inside a Port Adelaide-Enfield Council depot on Wattle Grove, Klemzig, about 9.15pm.

Five fire trucks, police officers and ambulance crews attended the incident and both ends of the street were closed to traffic.

Police notified Wattle Grove residents, but no one was evacuated.

The chemical was determined to be about 10-15 litres of hydrochloric acid and authorities said it had been contained.

Fairview City Hall had to be evacuated and 13 people were taken to local hospitals after an acid obtained during a meth lab bust was released into the air.

Fairview Police Sgt. Pat Stockdale said officers made a traffic stop at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday near City Hall, where the police offices are housed.

During the stop a “shake and bake” or “one pot” meth lab was found inside the car.

Four suspects were taken into custody, Stockdale said, and charges are pending.

“After the stop, one of the components from the vehicle was brought to City Hall for field testing,” Stockdale said. “The officer did not know it was hazardous.”

The ingredient, muriatic acid, is commonly sold in hardware stores.

Hazardous materials teams were called to a Buffalo Grove driveway after an elderly woman crashed her car into her garage, causing a lawn chemical to spill and create fumes, authorities said.

The driver plowed the car through her closed garage door after 1 p.m. Friday on the 600 block of Bernard Drive. As the car went through the garage, it made contact with a chemical and fertilizers commonly used for lawns, according to Sgt. Scott Eisenmenger of the Buffalo Grove Police Department.

Fumes from spilled hydrochloric acid overcame some of the police officers as they attempted to get the woman out of the vehicle. Three officers and the woman were treated at the scene for respiratory issues, and another officer was transported to the hospital for observation, Eisenmenger said.

Hazardous materials teams from Buffalo Grove and two other area fire departments were able to neutralize the acid, which was bubbling in the middle of the garage. Authorities were concerned that the acid could have mixed with torn bags of fertilizer, but the two substances never made contact, said Battalion Chief Shawn Collins of the Buffalo Grove Fire Department.

No injuries have been reported after a leak of hydrochloric acid at a Cargill plant in Cedar Rapids.

A company employee, who declined to be identified, confirmed the leak, which was reported around 7:20 a.m. at the plant at 1710 16th St. SE. He said a valve on a semi trailer failed and caused the acid to leak in mostly vapor form.

Officials estimated up to 200 gallons of hydrochloric acid leaked out of the 4,500-gallon trailer.

Buffalo Grove fire and police departments responded to a hazardous materials spill earlier this afternoon that sent one officer to a nearby hospital for treatment.
A female senior citizen, whose identity has not been disclosed at this time, backed a Ford Focus out of her garage at 646 Bernard Dr. In the process she hit her garage door and knocked over several items, which caused a chemical to open and spill, according to police.

Five officers were on the scene first. They immediately endured a noxious chemical, said Buffalo Grove Police Cmdr. Steve Husak.
The Buffalo Grove Fire Dept. was on scene at 1:09 p.m. with engine battalions from Lincolnshire and Long Grove and ambulances from Wauconda and Barrington.
Buffalo Grove hazardous materials technicians observed a muriatic acid had spilled. It's a corrosive acid that can be found at home improvement stores that is used to adjust the ph levels in swimming pools.

SLATON, TX (KCBD) -
The Lubbock Fire Department HAZMAT team is assisting the Slaton Fire Department with a reported hydrochloric acid spill near the railroad in Slaton.

Lubbock County Emergency Management Coordinator Clinton Thetford says crews on scene reported a railroad car containing approximately 30 gallons of the chemical split.

We're told some of the solution is on the ground. Crews are assessing and stabilizing the scene as they await response from railroad response team. Thetford says that could take several hours.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fire crews in Downtown Fresno have capped a leak from a train that was letting out hazardous chemicals.

Fire crews recieved the call Friday morning when a train worker noticed a strong odor coming from one of the cars. Fire crews immediately recognized the chemical as hydrochloric acid and knew then they had to act quickly.

Hazardous materials crews used a garbage bag and duct tape to cap the leak until the valve causing the leak can be replaced.

Firefighters say the leak is no longer a threat.

Hazmat crews are on the of a tanker explosion in Berrien County.

County dispatchers received a of a possible explosion at the Sawyer TA truck stop at the Sawyer Road exit of I-94.

A witness told NewsCenter 16 everyone within a quarter-mile of the truck stop was evacuated.

Employees at the restaurant inside the TA truck stop said a truck crashed around 7:30 p.m., but the explosion didn't occur until just before 10:00 p.m.

The restaurant was evacuated early on because of a fear hydrochloric acid was leaking from the truck.

Officials on the scene confirm nobody was injured and there was no damage to the building, however there were holes in the parking lot.

Hazmat crews remained on the scene into the night cleaning up debris.

A truck leaking hydrochloric acid was slowing traffic in Cottage Grove on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.
The Madison department's Hazardous Material Team was dispatched to the vicinity of Highway N and Commerce Park to help handle the leak, department spokeswoman Lori Wirth said.
The Cottage Grove Fire Department requested assistance, and initial reports were that about six gallons of the acid had spilled, Wirth said.
A motorist saw liquid coming out of the truck's tank and signalled to the driver to pull over, she said.

Firefighters spent 30 minutes extinguishing a fire started by lightning at a specialty chemical company Thursday evening, fire officials said. No one was injured.

According to Gainesville Fire Rescue, the fire at SiVance at 5002 NE 54th Place was reported at 8:33 p.m.

The plant is on the company’s 65-acre site just north of the Gainesville Regional Airport.

Fire crews wore full protective clothing and breathing tanks to deal with the fire that broke out in a tank of hydrochloric acid.

Officials said the fire in the partially filled, 5,000-gallon tank appeared to be the result of a lightning strike that accompanied a band of thunderstorms crossing the region late in the day on Thursday.

Due to the chemical involved, some decontamination was required once the fire was out.

WORKERS were evacuated after a chemical spill on an industrial estate released at least 100 litres of dangerous acid.

The leak was caused by a fork lift truck puncturing a plastic container containing hydrochloric acid outside Lofting Banstead & Lustre Finishers at Gunstore Road, in Hilsea.

Limberline Road was cordoned off by firefighters at its junction with Limberline Spur after about 100 of the spilled liquid – which can be highly corrosive and cause serious burns – poured onto the ground shortly before 12.30pm.

No injuries were reported from a hazardous materials call Tuesday morning. First responders were dispatched at 8:45 a.m. to Coal City Cob in the 4300 block of Interstate 35E in Waxahachie.

“The call came in as a chemical spill or leak. What we had is we had a semi-tanker truck. We are not sure how much hydrochloric acid it had in it but when they pulled it inside the building it started spewing acid out,” Waxahachie Fire Chief David Hudgins said.

A hazardous material spill forced the evacuation of parts of southern Buchanan County Thursday night.

Emergency management officials ordered residents living in a quarter-mile radius of Highway 45 and Highway 59 to evacuate.

Hazmat crews out of Olathe and Burlington Northern worked to clean up a hydrochloric acid spill in the area.

Officials say the acid was leaking out of a tank being carried by a northbound train. The spill was spotted by a crew on a passing southbound train.

MONROE TWP. – Smoke from acid thrown in the back of a garbage truck in Monroe sent three public works employees to the hospital this morning, police reported.
While making its runs through a residential neighborhood, the municipal garbage truck picked up hydrochloric acid that had been disposed of in an unknown container, according to police. The acid began smoking around 10 a.m. in the back of the truck as it drove on Forest Park Terrace, and police and firefighters were called.

Spilled hydrochloric acid at a chemical manufacturing plant in far west Morris spurred a hazardous materials response this morning, officials said.

The incident happened at about 9 a.m. at Thornton Industries Inc., 2000 Ashley Road, according to a Morris police and fire department dispatcher.

The emergency response team had cleared the spill by 11:30 a.m., said Cassie Buchanan, a spokeswoman for the company.

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The spill was confined to the facility where only one person was working, Buchanan said. No injuries were reported.

She said 50 gallons of the substance had spilled, Buchanan said.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — At approximately 11 a.m. Thursday, the University of Florida Police Department and Gainesville Fire Rescue responded to a report of an injured person and a beaker explosion that occurred at the Materials Engineering Building.
Upon arrival, units from both UFPD and GFR assisted the injured person, UF student Zhi Zhou, 27, and secured the lab where the incident occurred. Zhou was transported to Shands at UF medical center with non-life threatening injuries.
After the GFR Hazmat Unit cleared the lab where the minor explosion occurred, it was determined that the materials involved were hydrochloric acid, tetrachloride, titanium and water, which were combined and heated in a 30-milliliter beaker. Given the small and contained nature of the explosion, the building was not evacuated.
All units from UFPD and GFR cleared the scene by 11:43 am, with only staff from the University of Florida Environmental Health & Safety, and Physical Plant Division completing follow-on tasks.

A railroad official says several cars have derailed in a switching yard and thousands of gallons of a toxic chemical spilled. Burlington Northern Santa Fe spokesman Gus Melonas (mel-OWN'-us) says the train was moving at less than 5 mph in the Pasco yard when seven cars went off the tracks about 5 p.m. Sunday. He says a valve on a tanker car was damaged, causing the leak. By 9:30 p.m. about 12,500 gallons of hydrochloric acid had spilled. Melonas says there were no injuries. He says officials have determined there was no threat to the public with the spill occurring in a remote area of the yard, far away from any homes or businesses. The chemical can cause respiratory problems and skin and eye irritation. Melonas says crews expected to be able to seal the leak tonight and put the cars back on the tracks Monday. The derailment has not affected operations on the mainline, which handles about 30 trains daily.

The Mount Maunganui Fire Service attended a small chemical leak at Peter Baker Transport in Portside Drive this morning.

Fire Service communications shift manager Megan Ruru said the incident involved a small carton inside the building leaking hydrochloric acid and the fire service had been called at 6.16am.

She said a small carton was isolated and placed into a decontamination drum and removed from the building, which was then ventilated. The fire crew then went through a decontamination shower.

A smoking plastic carton brought a hazardous materials team to an East Palo Alto residence Friday afternoon, a fire official said.
A woman at the home on the 900 block of Baines Street told investigators several containers had been thrown into her backyard and that it was not unusual for people to dump trash there, Menlo Park Fire Protection District Battalion Chief Ben Marra said.
When the woman went to recycle the trash, however, she saw smoke rising from what looked like a plastic milk carton, according to Marra.
Authorities, who arrived at the home at about 12:40 p.m., told neighbors to shelter in place while the hazmat team investigated. Police officers, the San Mateo County Office of Emergency Services and county health officials also responded.
They determined the chemical was muriatic acid, which is commonly used in cleaning supplies, Marra said. The chemical can burn skin and injure lungs if inhaled.
The chemical-filled container appears to be a case of littering and was not part of a malicious act, Marra said.

A leaking cannister of compressed hydrogen chloride collected as recyclable scrap metal turned a west Santa Rosa neighborhood into a hot zone Thursday as hazardous materials personnel investigated a cloud of vented gas.
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A Kerney Street resident thought the gas cloud was smoke when she reported a debris fire in her neighbor's side yard at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, authorities said.

Responding firefighters were investigating the “smoke” when they lifted a piece of plastic sheeting and observed the rusted tank with a “poisonous” label that explained why their throats were becoming irritated, fire officials said.

They quickly retreated, and the area at the Kerney Street/Lance Drive was closed to traffic, while neighbors were told to stay indoors and close windows, police said.
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A police officer who talked occupant of the duplex unit learned he was a scrap metal recycler who had recovered the old tank from a Highway 12 land-owner, thinking it empty.

A full-scale hazardous materials response was launched, bringing fire, police, hazardous materials and medical personnel to the area for several hours of elaborate set-up, complete with decontamination area, preceding an approach to the tank by two men in encapsulated suits.

RICHMOND, VA (WTVR) - A hazmat incident in South Richmond shut down portions of I-95 North near Bells Road for hours Tuesday.

The incident closed the right lane of I-95 and and the on-ramp from Bells Road until 4 p.m.

Virginia State Police Sgt. Thomas Molnar tells CBS 6 that around 8:00 a.m. about 200 gallons of muriatic acid leaked from a drum with a broken valve inside a tractor trailer.
In addition, Virginia State Police and the Richmond Fire Department say another drum in the truck containing acetone had a small leak on the top of the drum and some acetone sloshed out and mixed with the muriatic acid producing a milky green substance.

When the tanker rail car was moving and the diluted hydrochloric acid solution was shaken up inside, it was reacting with the moisture in the air and creating a tiny amount of vapor that was released Saturday night, according to CSX Train Master Mike Bias. He said most of the cars have vents.

The car was then parked and the vapor was apparently not being released. Officials were just waiting for the car to be fixed in order to be moved out of the yard early Sunday morning.

Bias said the DuPont Hazmat team left the scene Saturday night since the car was not from their plant as originally thought. He said they did not have the right equipment to fix it.

Around 1:45 a.m. Sunday, a different hazmat team was on its way to the low yard near 19th Street in Parkersburg to fix the car so it could go to Tetra as originally planned, he said. The car reportedly came from Kentucky.

Singapore - 300 metric tonnes of hydrochloric acid leaked from a chemical processing plant in Jalan Samulun - West of Singapore - yesterday morning.

Acid leaked from a damaged tank owned by Chemical Industry Far East Limited. However, the leakage was confined to the bund walls enclosing the plant.

When contacted, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) told AsiaOne that no one was injured in the incident.

The SCDF set up ground monitors and used water to neutralise the vapour and dilute the leakage. The remnants of the leakage has since been pumped into an empty storage tank.

All lanes of Highway 23 in Thousand Oaks were reopened by 10:10 a.m. Tuesday after pool-cleaning acid spilled from a truck, creating a chemical cloud that stopped traffic in both directions, authorities said.

A one-gallon container of muriatic acid fell out of a southbound truck just before 7 a.m. on the southbound lanes between Janss Road and Hillcrest Avenue, authorities said.

The northbound lanes were reopened shortly after 8 a.m., said Miguel Duarte, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol in Moorpark.

VERNON TWP. — Clean-up of a derailed train near Pittsburg and Reed roads continued over the weekend after a Canadian National Railway car carrying hydrochloric acid was punctured Thursday evening, spilling the hazardous chemical.
 The tracks were “all cleared” Sunday around 8 p.m., Durand Fire Chief Richard Rinker said this morning.
“The cause (for the derailment) is still under investigation,” Canadian National Railway Public Affairs Director Patrick Waldron said.

VERNON TWP. — A freight train that derailed Thursday night near the corner of Pittsburg and Reed roads, damaging a tanker filled with hydrochloric acid, forced residents to evacuate their homes as emergency personnel struggled to stop the leaking chemical.
The Canadian National Railway freight train was eastbound from Battle Creek to Flat Rock about 6:30 p.m. when 12 cars derailed. Three tanker cars carrying hydrochloric acid overturned onto their sides, CN Public Affairs Director Patrick Waldron said. He added one tanker was spilling hydrochloric acid and another had a drip leak.

LOS ANGELES (CBS) ― A hazardous materials team responded to a reported chemical spill Sunday on Terminal Island, a city fire official said.

There were no reported injuries.

The spill, possibly hydrochloric acid, was reported at 7:15 p.m. at 389 E. Terminal Way, Erik Scott of the Los Angeles Fire Department said.

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Hazmat crews were called into Midtown Memphis this morning.
Someone discovered hydrochloric acid leaking from a railroad tanker.
Crews were able to get it cleaned up, but not before threatening an evacuation and shutting down traffic.

(Memphis 8/6/2010) More than a dozen fire trucks filled the area on Southern Avenue between Haynes and Semmes around 6 am. Andrea Bailey had no idea what was going on.

"I came in from work and I pulled up in the driveway and I saw all these fire trucks and all kind of police and stuff. I stopped a lady out there and she said it was some kind of hazardous [material] going in the air," said Bailey.

She lives at the corner of Haynes and Southern Avenue just blocks away from the leaking railroad tanker.

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There were fumes rising from the top of the container which was filled with hydrochloric acid residue.

"I'm wondering what's going in my house, is my house blowing up? That's what I really though," added Bailey.

"Workers were working on the tanker truck, there were bolts on the top that rusted out and it was allowing vapor to be released from the tanker," said LT. Wayne Cooke from the Memphis Fire Department.

At the height of rush hour traffic, Southern Avenue had to be shut down for about a half a mile while hazmat crews worked to contain the leak.

The swimming lagoon at Spring Lake Park has re-opened after 40 gallons of muriatic acid were spilled in the area this morning due to a valve failure in the lagoon's chlorination system.


The amount is less than the 600 gallons officials initially reported, and Hazmat testing showed that the leak never got beyond the system of six-inch pipes in the fenced area east of the lagoon.

Officials say the lagoon itself was not contaminated.

Santa Rosa Battalion Chief Andy Pforsich said the leak occurred where a garden hose is mounted to a 6-inch pipe via a spigot saddle.

The spill was first reported to Sonoma County fire officials at 7:16 a.m. Hazmat teams are likely to be working throughout the afternoon testing the air and water and doing any mitigation necessary, Pforsich said.

Pforsich said the park employee who first reported the leak said he smelled something and noticed a mist around the screened enclosure around the equipment, which is used to disinfect the swimming lagoon. The employee was given a medical screening.

“He's okay,” Pforsich said. “We've evaluated him at the scene but he's not in any need of any treatment.”

Three city workers were hospitalized after making contact with chemicals that were leaking from a garbage truck Thursday morning on the Northwest Side.

A Level 1 HazMat response was called about 11 a.m. near Mobile and Estes avenues for a report of chemicals leaking from a garbage truck, according to Fire Media Affairs spokesman Quention Curtis. 

Three city workers inside the garbage truck were taken to Resurrection Medical Center in good condition for precautionary reasons, Curtis said.

The chemical was determined to be muriatic acid, he said.

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Drivers on Route 22 in Cambria County reported seeing a green-colored slime on the road Wednesday.
It turns out that a tanker truck leaked a small amount of hydrochloric acid near Dishong Mountain Road, officials said.
Volunteers from the Jackson Township Fire Departmentand Hazmat crews said they threw some sand on the spill and had it cleaned up in a few hours.
According to hazmat crews, had it not been for recent rain, the situation could have been worse. Pavement damage and health problems could have resulted on a dry, warm day, they said.
The tanker truck eventually pulled over and was repaired.

BRISTOL -- Rescue workers donned self-contained suits and breathing apparatus to clean a chemical yesterday that was so strong it ate out the floor of the tractor trailer where it spilled, a fire official said yesterday.
Workers spent hours cleaning up the 30-percent hydrochloric acid solution from the parking lot at the Freudenberg plant at 450 Pleasant St., said fire Capt. Maggie Fellows. They also roped off the lot.
Vapors from hydrochloric acid can burn the lungs and the skin of people, Fellow said.
She said the truck driver was using a two-wheeled cart to remove the plastic drum of the chemical when he noticed a leak. He moved the trailer away from the building and left the rear open.
The Bristol Fire Department called ffor help from the Central ...
Fellows said rescue workers used chemicals to control and neutralize the spill.