ATLANTA — Barrels of chemicals dumped on the side of a road caused a northwest Atlanta intersection to be shut down early Monday morning.

Hazmat crews spent hours cleaning up the mess after several gallons of chemicals spilled onto the road.

Atlanta firefighters were called to the area near Johnson Road and Rockdale Street due to a suspicious odor.

“They were able to determine some barrels of unknown chemical,” Atlanta Fire Department Capt. Matt Lingquist said.

One barrel was leaking chemicals near an abandoned property.

“We believe it was possibly disposed of illegally,” Lingquist said.

Hazmat crews in protective gear quickly identified the chemical as hydrogen peroxide. The chemical is often used as a bleach or cleaning agent and is considered highly reactive

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- A tanker truck accident caused a hazardous material emergency in Spartanburg County early Monday, but EMS officials said they considered it a low-level hazmat situation.
The incident was first reported about 8 a.m. on Dogwood Club Road at South Port Road, according to the Highway Patrol website. This is near the fuel terminals in the Camp Croft area.
Spartanburg County Emergency Management representative said a tanker truck hauling hydrogen peroxide had a valve that was leaking.

Atascadero police and fire say, it's now safe for people who live at Oaks Apartments to return home.
This, after many were quarantined and evacuated, after an apartment manager found a suspicious package in the pool.
It happened around 9:30 Friday morning, in the 9400 block of Jornada Lane near El Camino Real.
Atascadero Police, Fire, a hazardous materials team, the San Luis Obispo County Bomb Squad, and the FBI... all responded.
Friday, an apartment manager noticed an odd looking bag in the complex pool. He scooped it out... and investigators say, his concerns grew after seeing a water bottle... with a strange green liquid inside.
By early Friday evening, investigators told KSBY, the liquid was hydrogen peroxide, water, and some kind of green dye.

GLASSBORO — A tanker was apparently leaking hydrogen peroxide outside a cocoa factory here Monday night, prompting a response from the county’s hazmat team.
The tanker was leaking at ADM Cocoa on Ellis Street, reports indicated.
Hydrogen peroxide, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, is corrosive in a concentrated form and can be explosive in not stored under proper conditions.
The clear, colorless liquid is infinitely soluble in water. Agricultural pesticide products usually contain no more than 35 percent hydrogen peroxide, which is usually diluted to 1 percent or less when applied, according to the EPA.

HYDERABAD: Two daily-wage workers died in an explosion at a chemical unit in Amberpet on Thursday morning.

The two victims were identified as Venkata Lakshmi, 45, and Kalpana, 30, of Venkatapuram Colony, who were working at Nagamani Chemicals owned by B Nanda Gopal from Bapu Nagar in Amberpet. The incident took place at 11.30am when the two workers were mixing hydrogen peroxide, methyl ethyl ketone and sodium sulphate to produce a chemical substance used in the manufacturing of asbestos sheet moulds and coolants. The high intensity of the explosion damaged a portion of the chemical unit's roof and severely injured both Venkata Lakshmi and Kalpana.

"With critical burn injuries, Venkata Lakshmi died on the spot and Kalpana succumbed to injuries while undergoing treatment at a nearby private hospital," Amberpet inspector A Srinivas said.

Police said that the chemical unit was an illegal one. Nanda Gopal, the owner of the unit, has been arrested and cases have been booked against him under section 304-A (Causing death due to rash or negligent act) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

FIRE crews from both Leicestershire and Warwickshire were called to a chemical leak at a waste plant in Hinckley.
Six fire engines had to be called to Augean’s waste transfer station on the A5 after they received reports of a leak of 1,000 litres of hydrogen peroxide at the plant at 11.20pm last Wednesday.
The alarm was triggered when the lid of a 1,000 litre Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) of hydrogen peroxide solution popped off, causing some of the solution to leak from the container onto the floor of the bay where it was contained.
Despite the leak setting off the fire alarm, firefighters were able to discover that a blaze had not been the cause of the leak which was contained within a wall surrounding the hydrogen peroxide tank.

A truck carrying chemicals caught fire at Chandani chowk early on Thursday. Two firemen were injured in the extinguishing operation. Traffic on both the sides of the highway was disrupted for nearly three-and-a-half hours.

Fire brigade officers said the incident took place around 4 am. “

“The truck was carrying metal containers of acrylic polymer, hydrogen peroxide, phosphoric acid, zinc chloride and calcium chloride. There were also some bundles of ropes and utensils in the truck,” said Prabhakar Umratkar, a station officer with the fire brigade.

He added, “The incident came to light after some of the passengers in the vehicle following the truck saw fumes coming out. We reached the spot in 10 minutes after we got the call. It took about two hours for our 20 member of fire brigade team to bring the fire under control. We had to be extra cautious while extinguishing the fire. Two of the firemen suffered minor injuries.” The traffic on both the sides was dirupted, he said.

Fire crews are in the final stages of putting out a chemical fire at a Kurnell water treatment facility, in Sydney's south, but evacuated residents have been told to stay away until the fire is completely extinguished.

1000 litres of hydrogen peroxide caught fire early this morning, spewing toxic smoke around the Botany Bay suburb.

Two workers suffered minor injuries.

Homes within 1 kilometre were evacuated, with Fire and Rescue New South Wales saying about 250 people had to leave.

The toxic smoke that led to the evacuations has since blown out to sea.

Concentrated hydrogen peroxide that leaked from its container caused a fire in a home in Indiana Borough, according to a state police fire marshal.

Indiana fire Chief Paul Koons said firefighters went to a Washington Street home at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. The fire spread from a hallway closet to the basement and took about 10 minutes to extinguish, Koons said.

Four of the firefighters, including Koons, had chemical burns that had eaten holes through their gloves and uniform pants, he said. In all, 13 firefighters were exposed to the chemical.

"It basically turned white where it contacted me, like really, really dry skin. It burned like you were putting needles in your hands," he said.

One firefighter used his cell phone to find the treatment for the burns, a thorough washing with water, which firefighters did at the scene and later at the fire station, Koons said.

Hydrogen peroxide, concentrated at 35 percent, typically is added to water and used as a disinfectant on produce and metal food containers.

Koons said diluted peroxide is used around the house, but in this case a crack developed in the plastic storage jug.

Firefighters spent most of the day cleaning up over 600 litres of hydrogen peroxide spilled in Hamilton this morning after workers at a chemicals factory pierced a 1000-litre drum with a forklift.

About 40 firefighters were called to the spill at the Ecolab plant in Te Rapa, in northern Hamilton, just before 10am.

Workers spilled some of the chemical inside the factory, and while trying to clean up took the rest of it outside which also had to be dealt with, Fire Service Waikato assistant area manager Darryl Papesch told NZPA.

Ecolab workers put absorbent material on the chemical, which started reacting with the hydrogen peroxide. They then called the Fire Service, which evacuated the area and neutralised the spill with caustic soda. There were about 20 workers at the site.

There has been a large chemical spill at a laboratory on the outskirts of Hamilton.

Five fire trucks, police and ambulance crews have been at Ecolab just off Vickery Street in the suburb of Bryant Park for about an hour trying to contain the spill.

Fire communications shift manager Steve Smith says a large quantity of hydrogen peroxide has been spilt.

The laboratory has been evacuated while a clean up takes place.

A train carrying hydrogen peroxide derailed in Hamilton at about 9 a.m. Monday morning.

Monroe County Sheriff Andy Hood said his department had a report of the train derailment, off of Stovall Bottom Road, in a rural area.

Columbus Air Force Base's hazmat teams and the Columbus Fire Department responded to the scene and secured it for several hours before a contractor for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway took over.

"We had a trained get derailed and several cars come off the track. In those cars, we had three cars that were overturned and had hydrogen peroxide," said Martin Andrews, CFD battalion chief.

"Out of those three cars that were turned over, two were letting some of their contents out," Andrews said, noting this is a built-in mechanism, "so it wouldn't build up pressure and explode."

While household hydrogen peroxide is 2 to 3 percent, the chemical being transported was 50 and 70 percent, Andrews said.

A hazardous material emergency that forced the shutdown of the northbound I-95 Darien rest area Sunday was prompted by hydrogen peroxide seeping from a tractor trailer, police announced Monday.

Patrols from Troop G were dispatched to the service plaza around 1:30 p.m., according Lt. J. Paul Vance, after a report of an unknown liquid escaping from a parked truck.

When troopers arrived, driver Jouharian V. Khatchik of Pasadena, Calif. told them that he had been hauling eighty 55-gallon drums of hydrogen peroxide (placard #2014). Khatchik said he had stopped at the rest area and noticed the chemical leaking from the truck as he prepared to leave, at which point he called 911.

Darien firefighters, already on the scene when troopers arrived, closed and evacuated the service plaza. Responders from the Department of Environmental Protection and Connecticut Tank Removal, a company that specializes in spill response, also came to the site of the incident.

After containing the liquid, officials determined that the load of barrels had shifted inside of the trailer, forcing one of them against a protruding nail and causing the leak.

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Officials report a hazardous chemical leak in North Baton Rouge has been stopped and a cleanup crew on the scene has finished removing the material.

According to the Baton Rouge Fire Department, a tank holding several hundred gallons of hydrogen peroxide began leaking early Monday morning.

Officials said it created a vapor cloud with a foul odor.

The chemical is used to treat the water at a facility near Rosenwald Road at Chinn Street.

Last night, Seventh Avenue between 42nd and 48th Streets was closed so the Fire Department could attend to a hazmat situation at 1515 Broadway, better known as the Viacom building where MTV, VH1 and other subsidiaries are housed. Why? Because building workers spilled 10 gallons of hydrogen peroxide on the top floor.
The spill was accidental—it seems that a machine the workers were using malfunctioned. The workers refused medical attention after being decontaminated. WCBS 2 reports that dozens of emergency vehicles were at the scene, but just as a precaution. Which brought up the typical mixed reactions from tourists: "I figured if there was something really wrong, obviously they would make sure we weren’t around. [We’re] just watching them do their job and do it well," said one woman from Idaho, while a Connecticut resident said, “Of course I’m concerned. What’s going on here? Because we know something happened here a few months back."

One person has been taken to hospital after a chemical spillage at a care home in Nottinghamshire.

Firefighters were called to the Clumber Court care home on Bolham Lane, Retford, after five litres (one gallon) of hydrogen peroxide was spilt.

The injured person suffered burned hands in the incident, which took place at about 1130 BST. Firefighters have now cleared up the spillage.

Residents were moved to another part of the home during the clean up.

Fresno City Fire crews are on the scene of a hazmat situation in Southeast Fresno.

According to Fresno Fire Spokesperson Gary Eberhard, a 2,000 gallon Hydrogen Peroxide tank stared venting gas around 11:15 a.m. Thursday at the Univar USA plant on Florence Ave, near Cedar.

Crews believe the venting is due to a change in temperatures.

The plant has been shut down for the day, as firefighters continue to spray the tank in hopes of cooling it down.

A 2,000 ft evacuation zone around the plant has been put into place. 30 people at the Univar plant, and another nearby building, have been evacuated.