Fire officials in Seekonk believe that a man killed himself by breathing in a mixture of hydrogen sulfide while inside a car, in a parking lot, where a carnival was scheduled to take place.

Thankfully the man did leave several notes on the car warning people to stay away.

And without those warnings, officials say that the situation could have been much worse.

The warnings were first discovered by a group of kids at around 2:30 Friday afternoon.

"It said poisonous gas, hydrogen sulfide, do not open the doors, call 9-1-1 and get the hazmat team." said 13-year old Matthew Stanley.

AURORA, Colo. -- Emergency crews shut down a stretch of Cornell Avenue east of Peoria Street, and ordered people in two nearby businesses, one of them a daycare center, to stay inside while they dealt with a hazardous chemical situation involving a body.
A maintenance employee at an apartment complex on Cornell Avenue told 7NEWS that he noticed a car parked in an adjacent lot and thought it might be abandoned.
"I walked up to it and noticed a woman slumped over inside," the man said. "The doors were locked."

He said there were notes posted on the driver side door window stating that chemicals were in use and to call 911. So he did.

A VILLAGE was sealed off earlier today after a chemical suicide bid turned a home into a potential death scene.

Firefighters, paramedics, police and an ambulance hazardous area response team (HART) rushed to Chippinghurst, near Garsington, at about 7am.

The entire village was sealed off and residents were told not to leave their homes after a 23-year-old man filled his house with the killer gas hydrogen sulphide.

He was found gasping for breath by his father who immediately called the police and paramedics.

The incident ended with the suicidal man being taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Fire brigade officials refused to discuss the incident and referred all calls to the police.

ILEY COUNTY, Kan. (WIBW) -- . After a dangerous rescue along Interstate 70, a 20-year-old man has passed away after police say he mixed chemicals in his car to create a poisonous gas, breathing in the toxic fumes.

The suicide forced authorities to shut down both westbound lanes of Interstate 70 from 10:30 Monday night to 5:30 Tuesday morning.

At 10:24 PM Monday, Riley County Police Dispatch got a 911 call from a 20-year-old Lawrence man, whose identity is not being released, saying that he needed the phone number to the suicide hotline. The man did not want to tell dispatchers where he was but they were able to trace his phone and found that he was on I-70 near Manhattan.

At 10:45, a Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper and Riley County police officer found the man’s car, a 1997 Honda Civic, stopped on the north shoulder of the westbound lanes of I-70 near milepost 318. As the trooper and officer approached the car, the man called Riley County Police Dispatch again, revealing that there were chemicals inside his car and asked that the officers stay back unless they were wearing chemical suits.

Captain Kurt Moldrup, an administrator for the Riley County Police Department, says the man had mixed chemicals together to create hydrogen sulfide which emits deadly fumes and that a placard had been placed on the back of his car of a skull and crossbones that read “Danger: Poisonous Gas.” Moldrup says officers could smell the sulfur coming from the car and did not approach it. The suicidal man then immediately stopped communicating with authorities.

JEFFERSONVILLE, IN. (WDRB) -- One worker was hospitalized after being overcome by fumes following a gas leak at Idemitsu Lubricants in Jeffersonville.

A tanker truck hauling hydrogen sulfide gas began leaking around 2:15 p.m. Saturday. Fire crews blocked off portions of Port Road while clean continued into the evening. Members of the hazardous materials unit from Louisville Fire and Rescue were called in to help with the clean up effort.

Emergency Management Coordinator Mindy Christian said she anticipated the clean up process would be finished soon, she stated around 7:15 p.m. Saturday evening.

The leak posed no immediate danger to the public, Christian said. No one was order to evacuate.

The company, which distributes automotive oils, recently began using the new chemical, hydrogen sulfide, according to Christian the Jeffersonville emergency management coordinator.

Christian said the fear was that the chemical was getting too hot and could spark a fire. The employee who was taken to the hospital was working to clean up the leak.

The 22-year-old composting worker left brain dead after an industrial accident Wednesday in Lamont was taken off life support and died, according to the Kern County coroner's office.

Heladio Ramirez, of Arvin, died at 11:04 a.m. Friday in Kern Medical Center's intensive care unit. His family in the days prior had been agonizing over whether to end life support.

Days earlier, Ramirez' 16-year-old brother, Armando Ramirez, died inside an 8-foot-deep drainage tunnel at Community Recycling and Resource Co. when he was overcome by hydrogen sulfide, a deadly byproduct of the composting process that attacks the central nervous system.

The brothers were cleaning out the tunnel. Heladio Ramirez saw his brother unconscious and went down to rescue him, and was also overcome by fumes. A third worker who did not enter the tunnel was also overcome, but was treated and released.

UPDATE 6.10pm: HUNDREDS of workers were forced to evacuated Mobil's Altona refinery after a foul-smelling chemical spill.

Fire crews raced to the scene soon after 4.30pm as residents as far away as Sunshine reported the smell of gas emanating from the plant.

At least one resident in an aged care home was treated after she was overcome by fumes.

Just before 6pm, Exxon Mobil released a statement saying the strong odour was the result of a spill involving about 1-2 litres of a foul-smelling sulphur compound, believed to include hydrogen sulphide, also known as "rotten egg gas".

"Around 4.30pm during maintenance at the Altona refinery, around 1–2 litres of water containing sulphur compounds was released to the sewer," the company said.

"This resulted in a rotten-egg type smell being inadvertently released. There is no danger to people and environment.



"We are notifying our neighbours and we regret any inconvenience."

Two workers were exposed to a poisonous gas at the Shell refinery near Geelong this morning, firefighters say.

The contractors were working at the Refinery Road site in Corio when a refinery pump began leaking hydrogen sulphide just after 8.35am.

A Country Fire Authority (CFA) spokesman said refinery employees isolated the leak within minutes, and the two workers suffered only minor exposure.

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‘‘Both attended the site’s health centre for assessment and observation by their team and Ambulance Victoria. They were not taken to hospital. It’s a mild exposure,’’ he said.

The CFA spokesman said there appeared to be a leak of hydrogen sulphide, a poisonous flammable gas.

STILLWATER -- An 18-year-old man died Friday night after apparently inhaling a deadly vapor while in a car in his driveway.

A leading state fire official says the death bears resemblance to what's called a "chemical suicide," but officials are still investigating the circumstances.

Joshua J. Brisbin of 3 Riverside Drive was pronounced dead at the scene by Saratoga County Coroner Thomas Salvadore, sheriff's officials said. The man "had succumbed to some chemicals that were in the vehicle," a sheriff's office statement said.

Peter Hoesel, Brisbin's stepfather, called 911 about 7 p.m. after finding his stepson unresponsive in his car, officials said. An initial investigation Friday night revealed two household chemicals in the car that when mixed together make hydrogen sulfide, a deadly vapor, sheriff's authorities said.

Alon USA Energy Inc. (ALJ) is trying to identify the source of a hydrogen sulfide leak at its Bakersfield, California, refinery that was discovered while operators were starting up production.
The company has evacuated all contractors from the units, said Gordon Leaman, the refinery’s general manager. According to a notice filed with state regulators, the leak was discovered at 8:10 a.m. local time today.
Alon said in March that it expected to start the hydrocracker at the refinery by mid-2011. The company plans to process vacuum gas oil produced from its other California refineries. Alon bought the refinery from Flying J Inc.

A dead man was found in a car containing poisonous gas on Arsenal Street in Watertown, according to police. No one else has been reported injured at the scene but police, fire and Hazmat officials are on scene for a Level 3 Hazmat situation.

According to Watertown police, the death is a suicide. It "does not appear to be suspicious," according to a spokeswoman from the Middlesex District Attorney's office.

According to police reports, a couple walking their dog along the bike path near 500 Arsenal St. at about 5:50 p.m. noticed a gray Honda Accord in a parking lot. The car reportedly had two notes on the window -- one saying "Poison H2S gas" and one saying "One breath kills, notify Hazmat."

Police officers and firefighters responded to the scene and notified the state hazmat team, according to reports. They reportedly discovered a deceased man in the car. The man's identity has not been released.

A man mixed chemicals that produced a deadly toxin that killed him Tuesday in what authorities are labeling a suicide.

Fire department hazardous materials teams were called to a Northwest Side home in the 4900 block of Port Kenton late Tuesday to investigate a call that dangerous chemicals had been found with a body inside a garage.

Investigators said the owner of the residence called police around 9 p.m. when he discovered his tenant dead inside his vehicle.

The car was parked inside the residence's garage of the home. Authorities suspect the man killed himself by mixing the dangerous chemicals to produce hydrogen sulfide, a colorless, very poisonous gas with the characteristic foul odor of rotten eggs, according to various Web sites.

Neighbors had complained earlier about foul odor coming from the residence.

Authorities said the body of the man, who authorities are not identifying until next of kin are notified, had been decomposing for several weeks.

A hydrogen sulfide leak shut down the Alon Refinery on Rosedale Highway Tuesday and may have sickened a handful of people around the plant.

Hydrogen sulfide is a flammable, noxious gas produced during oil refinement. Its characteristic 'rotten egg' smell sent the refinery into alert mode as firefighters, air quality experts and environmental health workers descended to help sniff out the leak.

Firefighters drove in as workers, clad in navy jumpsuits, scampered out of the Alon Refinery.

"Where this was, was not a hazard to anywhere outside the facility. Now inside the facility if you were going in there without breathing apparatus, which our crew was, it can be quite a hazard," said Captain Brandon Smith, Kern County Fire Department.

Alarm bells sounded after chemical monitors at the plant detected a hydrogen sulfide leak around eight in the morning. Ambulances were on standby as crews posted at the plant's driveway, turned away deliveries and trucks.

"They have their own team, so when we came into the situation today, they had already started the process of evacuating their employees," added Smith.

When it comes to hydrogen sulfide, the human nose is far more sensitive than some of the best detectors.

"The machines calculate at parts per million whereas the smell is parts per billion. So that's why you are going to get a smell without even having a reading," said Kim Rodriguez, County Spokesperson.

This isn't the first hydrogen sulfide leak at the refinery.

Under the ownership of Flying J, the refinery released 3,500 pounds of the flammable gas in October 2006.

Since Alon took over in June of last year, the Air Quality Board says the facility has seen a few minor infractions, one as recent as February when a flame went out on a stack, allowing combustible gas to be released.

The plant is also monitored by Environmental Health.

DENVER - The fire department evacuated a highrise apartment building at 16th Street and Glenarm Place after a person who lived on the 11th floor committed suicide using the chemical agent hydrogen sulfide.

Phil Champagne with Denver Fire says there was a major discharge of the chemical and the 11th and 12th floors were immediately evacuated.

Champagne described the gas as a highly concentrated sewer gas.

Two neighbors found the man that committed suicide. The man and woman were taken to Denver Health after they were sprayed down and decontaminated. 9News is working to find out how they are doing.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Salt Lake City hazmat crews were called to a "sodium hydrosulfide" spill on California Avenue right by I-215 Thursday.

Firefighters say the sutstance was in a container on a truck, and about five gallons leaked out as the driver exited the freeway.

The truck came from Tooele County.  Utah Highway Patrol troopers retraced its path to make sure none of the substance spilled out along the way.

California Avenue and the northbund off-ramp onto California Avenue was shut down during clean-up.  "Sodium hydrosulfide" smells like rotten eggs and it can irritate the eyse and skin if a person comes in contact with it.  In this case, firefighters say no one was ever in danger.

A downed power line is being blamed for a sequence of fires and chemical release on 54th Avenue SE Wednesday afternoon.  The Calgary Fire Department had to douse one blaze involving a transformer and two in electrical rooms.  Then in a chemical plant, a release of hydrogen sulfide.  The power outage had disrupted a critical stage of "scrubbing".  Initial readings of the sour-smelling gas were at 30-parts per million.  The Fire Department's Brian McAsey says they had to re-route traffic and evacuate a small area just to be on the safe side.  McAsey adds a hydrogen sulfide reading of 200-parts per million is considered dangerous to humans.

Dozens of people at a Rhode Island state hospital that treats people with mental illness are believed to have been exposed to hydrogen sulfide, but officials said everyone's doing fine.

The exposure occurred Monday morning in the Regan Building of the Eleanor Slater Hospital in Cranston.

Ten staff members with symptoms including nausea and vomiting, including one who fainted, were taken to other hospitals to be evaluated.

The fire department says foam insulation disturbed during roof work released the hydrogen sulfide.

RICHMOND, VA - Fire and rescue crews spent hours tending to a hazardous materials incident at the Richmond wastewater plant Tuesday morning. A potentially dangerous chemical was leaking in the 1400 block of Brander Street - just off Interstate 95 near Ancarrow's landing in Richmond's southside.

A worker inside called emergency crews after smelling something he thought was sulfur dioxide.

Richmond fire Lt. Shawn Jones says the employee was right. Rescue crews detected a small dose of sulfur dioxide leaking from a pipeline connecting a rail car and the facility.

Jones says sulfur dioxide in large quantities can be very toxic and the worker who inhaled the sulfur dioxide was checked out as a precaution. It was determined that he was okay and the other workers were kept outside for hours for their safety.

Chris Rossi works at the facility and is also a volunteer Hanover firefighter. His experience came in handy. Rossi spent part of his morning investigating the incident himself - trying to figure out the dangers of sulfur dioxide.

"I checked my handy dandy hazard book," said Rossi. "Dangers of sulfur dioxide, distance, etc."

VERNAL — Four Roosevelt men suffered chemical burns Friday in an incident in the oil and gas fields south of Vernal.

The men, all employees of Monument Well Service, were working on a "workover rig" 15 miles south of Bonanza, Uintah County, when a separator allowed hydrogen sulfide to escape from it, said Uintah County Undersheriff John Laursen. The four were injured when they became exposed to the liquid gas about 11:50 a.m.

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Hydrogen sulfide is a colorless, poisonous and flammable gas that occurs from a bacterial breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. It is often associated with natural gas production, which occurs in the oil and gas fields near Vernal.

A chemical leak led to a brief shelter-in-place for middle school students, according to information KFDM News has received from first responders.
No one was hurt.
A sulphur dioxide leak was reported at about 10:50 a.m. Thursday at Calabrian Chemicals, 5500 Highway 366 in Port Neches, according to Doug Bledsoe with the Port Neches Fire Department.