At least eight veterinary workers have been poisoned by exposure to potentially lethal phosphine gas when dogs being treated for ingesting pest-killing chemicals have thrown up in their offices, and health officials suspect there may be other unreported cases as well. All of the human victims recovered with no lasting effects, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that more serious incidents could occur and cautioned veterinarians to be alert.

Zinc phosphide is a widely used rodent killer. When it is ingested, contact with stomach acid and water produces phosphine gas, which is highly toxic. If the animals are induced to regurgitate the poison -- standard procedure -- phosphine gas can be released into the office, exposing workers.

In one such incident reported in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Thursday, a 70-pound dog that had eaten rodenticide was brought into a veterinary hospital in Michigan. When vomiting was induced with hydrogen peroxide, two workers were poisoned by exposure to the resulting gas. One technician reported shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, headache and nausea. An office manager reported similar symptoms, as well as lightheadedness. Four other workers reported only one symptom, such as chest tightness, chest pain or headache, and were not considered poisoned. All six recovered without hospitalization.

ORTON, Ill. —
Officials are warning against any consumption by livestock of waters in Prairie Creek, which experienced a “complete” fish kill downstream of the site of a chemical spill into the creek Tuesday.

Several hundred gallons of a mixture containing 28 percent nitrogen and 13 percent of a herbicide containing Atrazine, along with about 60 gallons of diesel fuel, spilled into the creek along Allentown Road west of Allentown when a fertilizer spreader tipped over.

Responders with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, the state Department of Natural Resources and the Pekin and Morton fire departments returned to the creek’s downstream path Wednesday to contain the spill and collect water samples.

The chemicals can still be dangerous even if the water appears clear, officials warned.
 

PEKIN, Ill. —
Fire department personnel from Morton and Pekin and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency responded this morning to a spill of herbicide chemicals into a creek south of Morton that prompted road closings in the area.

A strong chemical odor was present about 1,000 feet from the area of Allentown Road between Baer Road and Fourth Street. Workers posted “Emergency Scene Ahead” signs on Baer Road between Morton and Tremont.

An agricultural spreader carrying about 1,200 gallons of herbicide chemicals tipped over into a creek, releasing an unknown amount of the herbicide, as well as oil and diesel fuel from the vehicle, into the water, according to a press release issued by Morton Fire Department Chief Joe Kelley.

DETROIT (WXYZ) - Emergency crews responded to the scene of a HAZMAT situation at an apartment building on Greenfield in Detroit.

EMS, Detroit Police, the fire department and HAZMAT crews were on the scene.

The building was being sprayed for bed bugs, but some of the residents did not leave the building.

Emergency crews could be seen hosing down individuals and taking residents away by ambulance.

Officials tell Action News eight to ten people were taken to area hospitals to be treated.

COLONIAL HEIGHTS, VA (WWBT) - Several streets in Colonial Heights were shut down Wednesday morning after the town's fire Marshal noticed an unknown chemical leaking from a drum.

The fire Marshal was driving to work when he saw the leak and called out the hazardous material team, according to the Colonial Heights Police Dept. The substance appears to be a pesticide used to kill fire ants.

Margate—
The suicidal man survived the revolting attempt to take his own life.

But by downing a toxic cocktail of malathion — a common pesticide — he touched off a chain of disruptive consequences Sunday when fumes from the poison sickened three paramedics, shut down a hospital emergency room and knocked a rescue vehicle out of service for hours.

"It's a mess," said Dan Booker, a division chief for the Margate Fire Department. "This guy took up a lot of assets. And he is not out of the woods yet."

The identity of the Coconut Creek man who drank the pesticide was not released. He was listed in stable condition.


The bizarre incident began just before 1:30 a.m. when paramedics were called to the 5900 block of 40th Lane, where the man was found lying on the grass.

En route to Northwest Medical Center, the man vomited, Booker said, and three paramedics in the rescue truck with him began "to become dizzy, nauseous and getting headaches."

At the hospital the fumes pouring out of the man prompted hospital officials to move him to another floor, away from the emergency room, which was temporarily shut down as a precaution, Booker said.

The three paramedics were treated for their exposure to the chemical fumes, and hospital officials called for the Broward Sheriff's Office hazardous materials team and notified the state Department of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency.

The patient, described as a man in his 30s or 40s, was conscious and talking, Booker said.

Police, fire, ambulance and HAZMAT crews are at Rio Bravo-Greeley School in the 6600 block of Enos Ln. for reports of a school bus that was sprayed with pesticides.

So far, there are no reports of injuries, but some students have complained of itchy skin or being nauseated. Firefighters on scene reported it may have been the chemical Lorsban, an insecticide that interferes with an insect's nervous system.

It appears the bus may have driven through a drift and was not sprayed directly while children from the elementary and junior high school were on the bus. Then,the kids were dropped off at school.

UPPER SADDLE RIVER – Borough Hall was evacuated early Friday afternoon following the mistaken application of a termite control chemical by a pest company worker in an area of the building that was not scheduled to be treated.

There were no injuries and no one was overcome by the use of the chemical. About 15 to 20 borough employees were asked to leave the building at about 12:30 p.m. after the pest control worker accidentally released about five to seven gallons of the chemical into what police describe as a storage closet that contained computer equipment.

“The worker pumped the chemicals into the wrong building – the DPW area – rather than the area of the building that was designated to be treated,” said Upper Saddle River Police Chief Pat Rotella. “The entire Borough Hall was evacuated, including the finance office, the planning-zoning office, the assessor office, the building department, the borough clerk and borough administrator’s office.”

The borough was notified by the pest control company that they had made an error by drilling then pumping the chemical – known as Termidor – into the wrong area of the building, Rotella said.

The Upper Saddle River Fire Department and the county HAZMAT unit were dispatched to the scene. Also on scene were the Mahwah Fire Department HAZMAT unit, the Ramsey Fire Department and the Ramsey Rescue Squad Decontamination unit.

“It’s going to be an extended clean up,” he said. “Everything should be back to normal by Monday.”

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A chemical leak was reported Monday morning at Union Pacific Railroad’s Avondale rail yard, 100 Avondale Garden Road in Avondale. Initial reports from Jefferson Parish stated that it had occurred at the Avondale Container Yard next door, but container yard officials there said it wasn’t in their yard and calls to Union Pacific clarified the incident.

About two ounces of sodium carbonate peroxyhydrate spilled in a container there about 8:30 a.m. Monday, according to Raquel Espinoza, who directs the Omaha-based railroad’s corporate relations for Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
No injuries were reported.
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The chemical is a substance used in fungicides and algaecides. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, sodium carbonate peroxyhydrate is used for treating “ornamental plants, turf grasses, terrestrial landscapes, in commercial greenhouses, garden centers, nurseries and storage areas.”

The apparent source of the smell was a pond located off school property, in an adjacent subdivision behind the portables. When it got worse, the principal called authorities.

Seven portables nearest to the pond were evacuated, Marsh said, and the students relocated to other classrooms. An Orange County Fire Rescue Hazmat team investigated.

According to a Fire Rescue spokeswoman, Hazmat determined the cause of smell was a chemical fungicide/algaecide that had been sprayed into the pond recently.

County Roads & Drainage officials confirmed the chemical, which prevents algae blooms, is non-toxic. Hazmat cleared the area after determining chemical levels were not dangerous.

According to OCPS, two students initially reported nausea, but soon recovered. A third student reported asthma-like symptoms and was treated with an inhaler and sent home.

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MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP, Pa. --

Two workers in York County were taken to the hospital after a hazmat situation at a business on Wednesday morning.
Emergency crews were called to Engel Machinery in Manchester Township after workers noticed a substance in crates shipped from overseas.
Company officials said the substance is a component used in pesticides. They are not sure how it got in the crates.

Five houses in Bowraville were evacuated after a toxic chemical was spilt at Norco Rural Store on Carbin Street, on the afternoon of January 11.
The spill was contained inside the building, but created a “vapour cloud”, said acting captain of the Bowraville Fire Brigade Max Duncan.

The chemical was a highly toxic pesticide.

“Members of Fire and Rescue NSW attended with breathing apparatus and chemical spill suits on. They entered the building to clean up the spill, and it was placed in a HAZMAT recovery bin,” Mr Duncan said.

RESIDENTS at six homes in Bowraville evacuated this afternoon after a chemical spill at the town's Norco Co-op.

NSW Fire and Rescue crews established a command post near the building in Carbin St around 2.30pm, as firefighters worked to contain the spill. 

Firefighters on scene confirmed no staff were injured although two people were decontaminated.

Initial reports to police indicated a bottle of the chemical exploded on the floor of the store after it was dropped.   

Police from Macksville and Bowraville were tasked to help residents evacuate from six nearby homes.

The chemical was a toxic pesticide, which is harmful to humans.  

The emergency response to the situation has since been downscaled

A 50-year-old Bridgehampton man who tried to kill himself on Nov. 16 with noxious fumes in his car — then changed his mind and drove to the hospital, causing a hazmat team to respond — has been charged with placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in the first degree, a class-D felony, according to police.

Southampton Village police said Fabian C. Seyrig de Saussure was arrested Dec. 20. Immediately after the incident, in which he mixed a fungicide and an acid in a five-gallon plastic bucket in his Volkswagen, he had been placed under psychiatric care. The Southampton Fire Department, Southampton Town HazMat Team and village police had all responded to Southampton Hospital, where he parked the car outside the emergency room.

Homes on Second Lane were evacuated Tuesday afternoon and evening after pesticides left in a garbage can sent a building inspector to the hospital.

Around 3 p.m., the fire department received a call that a building inspector working at 552 Second Lane had become ill, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

About half an hour later, residents nearby the home were evacuated from the street, according to the Chronicle. The building inspector was taken to the San Mateo Medical Center.

"Nobody was talking," said Patane, who gathered with residents outside the barricades to see what was going on. Patane's home on Commercial Avenue backs up onto Second Lane.

It turned out that pesticides left in a garbage can for unknown reasons caused the chemical smell and illness. Residents watched for hours while the street was sealed off and a Hazmat team from Belmont removed the material.

The Torrance police and fire department, the Redondo Beach Fire Department, and the Torrance hazmat division were called to DSD Trucking at 2400 Marine Ave  earlier Friday afternoon after workers opened a damaged container and noticed an unpleasant smell.

Employees were unloading the container in preparation to reload it into a  truck when seven employees noticed an unpleasant smelling powder leaking from the shipment. They immediately alerted the fire department and evacuated the area.

“We smelled it and got out right away,” said Chris Viellea, an 11 year employee of DSD Trucking from L.A.“The smell was really bad.”

The shipping container is suspected to contain pesticides from overseas and was expected to be delivered to Arizona. According to the fire department, often times things are damaged in transit and spills of this nature are typical.

Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--October 27, 2011.  Forty-seven students from Edgewood Middle School in St. Clair Township, Ohio, reportedly fell ill after the school’s hired pest control company sprayed the herbicide Momentum, which contains the toxic ingredients 2,4-D, triclopyr and clopyralid, on nearby playing fields to treat for clover and other weeds. The incident and others like it demonstrate the need for a comprehensive national policy to protect children from harmful and unnecessary exposure to toxic chemicals. Six students were taken to nearby hospitals and twenty-one students total were treated for symptoms, including headaches, breathing difficulties, nausea and dizziness.

FALMOUTH — A chemical spill inside a home on Chester Avenue forced the town to close the street for about an hour today.

Falmouth Fire Chief Howard Rice said his department was called to 3 Chester Ave. around 4:10 p.m. after the home’s owner reported they had spilled a small glass container of malathion (pesticide) on the basement floor.

The homeowner said he accidentally knocked the container off the shelf – it was on the back of the shelf and had been out of sight for years – while he was cleaning the basement.

The Portland Fire Department’s hazardous materials team was called in to assist with the cleanup. A representative from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection also responded.

Authorities have found a second leaking container on a ship docked at the Port of Brisbane, prompting a chemical spill scare this morning.

Crew from aboard the ship were evacuated this morning when a container was found to be leaking zinc dithiophosphate.

After fire crews safely removed the leaking container from the ship, firefighters discovered a second container, which contained organic phosphate packages, was releasing fumes.

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The second container was resealed after the spill was found inside.

The Department of Community Safety said no chemicals were leaked into waterways during either incident and no injuries have been reported.

BATAVIA, N.Y. (WIVB) - Wednesday morning some Genesee County residents had to stay inside because of noxious fumes outside. Pesticide is blamed for making some people sick in Batavia.

Though it is something that farmers have done for years, when certain weather conditions exist, it can affect on people like it did on Wednesday.

Genesee County Emergency Manager Timothy Yaeger said, "New York State DEC, State Police, Sheriff's Office, Genesee County HazMat Team, East Pembroke Fire Department are all on the scene."

Charlie Woodruff, who co-owns Woodruff Overhead Door, started his day like any other on Route 5 in Batavia.

"I came to work about 7, back the truck out started unloading some product and the next thing you know my eyes were just watering pretty heavily and I didn't know what it was," recounted Woodruff. "A couple of my guys showed up and their eyes started watering immediately and I said 'just leave.'"

TRENTON, Ohio -- Nearly 50 students became ill Tuesday morning at a Butler County school.
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Butler County EMA director Jeff Galloway said five students were transported to hospitals for examination at parents' request, and another 42 were examined at the scene or at the adjacent high school.

Galloway said that it appears the students were sickened by an herbicide, Momentum, used to treat the lawn outside the school about two hours before the first illnesses were reported. The chemical can be irritating if inhaled, officials said.
"We're thinking that chemical and the smell of it went into the classrooms. The chemical they're dealing with is an irritant by inhalation," Galloway said.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -- About 30 gallons of pesticide required Hazmat cleanup following a collision between a car and a tractor Wednesday near Hastings, and the driver of the car faces charges.

The crash happened on State Road 207 around 9 a.m.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the tractor was southbound, partially in the shoulder, partially in the right lane.  The tractor was properly marked with a "slow-moving vehicle" reflector and was traveling 15-18 mph.

A car driven by 35-year-old Babetta R. Johnson failed to slow down or move over, and ran into the back of the tractor, which was towing a fumigator trailer.

Three Hinsdale South High School students were transported to Adventist Hinsdale Hospital in good condition Thursday morning after inhaling an herbicide being applied to a school courtyard, Tri-State Fire Protection District officials said.

Six people total, including three staff members, complained of nausea and headaches around 11:30 a.m. after the commercially available chemical came in through the windows and ventilation system, Tri-State Fire Chief Michelle Gibson said.

The students were taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure since their parents weren’t available to discuss the situation, but they are expected to be fine, Gibson said.

“They’re in good condition, just a little panicky from the whole event,” Gibson said.

Classes in the three affected rooms in the Darien school's science wing will be relocated for the remainder of the day, Hinsdale South Principal Brian Waterman said in a statement.

Multiple units from the Fire Department were dispatched around midnight Friday to deal with a fire in a business on the South Side.
Firefighters arrived at Omnium, 1417 Lower Lake Road, to find the company, part of Winfield Solutions, had evacuated all employees and cut off ventilation to a mixer that had a smouldering fire. A heat tape had shorted out, sparking a fire inside a mixer filled with corncobs, said John Alkier, plant manager.
Firefighters dressed out with oxygen units dragged water lines into one of the company buildings, located on the east side of the plant entrance.
The company infuses the cobs with an insecticide in the mixer, and it took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish and clean up after their work. Damage was estimated at about $5,000.
Missouri Department of Natural Resources records indicate that Omnium operates a Munson Mixer as part of its granular insecticide formulation and packaging operation.

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. -- One man was taken to a hospital during a Hazmat situation at a Wheat Ridge market on Tuesday afternoon
According to the Arvada Fire Department, which responded to the call, one employee at Heinie's Market suffered injuries after being exposed to an insecticide.
Arvada Fire Spokesman Scott Pribble said a quart of Malathion, an insecticide used especially for mosquito control, spilled off a shelf. The worker was cleaning up the mess when he suffered injuries to his arm, Pribble said.

A torn bag of insecticide created a potentially dangerous situation near Clarinda Monday night, Aug. 15, requiring the response of the Council Bluffs Fire Department Hazmat Team.


Page County Emergency Management Coordinator Rod Riley said he was notified by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources at approximately 7:50 p.m. that Robert Henke had reported the spill of a hazardous material at his farm two and one-half miles east of Clarinda.


Riley said a bag containing approximately 10 pounds of Thimet 15G broke open while the owners of the farm were cleaning a barn where the material was stored.


“The owners estimated the bag had been there 30 to 35 years and had not been opened until they were cleaning. Due to the age, the bag broke open when they moved it,” Riley said. “One of the residents came in contact with the dry powder. It had a strong, pungent odor that drew her attention. When they saw what it was they exited the barn and she immediately washed it off. She had no symptoms.

Authorities in Thailand say they are still not certain what caused the death of six tourists in the northern city of Chiang Mai but suggest some may have died from being exposed to pesticide or other toxic chemicals.

The deaths include that of a Thai tourist guide, two tourists from Britain, one tourist from France, one tourist from New Zealand and one from the United States. The tourists were staying in three different hotels in the city during January and February 2011. Three other tourists also fell ill but recovered.

The latest news comes from a posting on the Thai government's Department of Disease Control website on Tuesday, that said the authorities have have conducted an investigation into the mysterious deaths but the results were inconclusive, and the "specific agents that caused the deaths and illnesses in these events cannot be identified". It also says the authorities cannot establish exactly how the victims came to be exposed to them.

DUBAI // Pesticides which have been banned by the Ministry of Environment and Water because they are highly dangerous and capable of killing are being sold in shops around the country, industry experts said yesterday.

In November 2009, the ministry followed international practices, and banned 167 chemicals because they caused a danger to people and the environment. Another 32 substances were allowed to be used, but only by licenced operators. Yet the sale of these dangerous pesticides is common in small shops and on the black market.

Less than a week ago a man died after spraying his apartment with pesticide.

Fire crews were sent to the A177 near to Sedgefield after four drums of herbicide used to spray fields fell off a lorry.

Three of the drums burst spilling the farmer’s herbicide onto the road leading to fears it could get into the water system.

Emergency services were sent to the scene near to Sedgefield Golf Club to tackle the problem at 9.31am on August 5.

No-one was hurt but the road was closed as fire crews wearing breathing apparatus surveyed the scene.

VAN BUREN COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Hazmat crews are working to clean up a pesticide spill on M-51, just south of I-94.

Deputies say the spill happened around 4 a.m. Friday when a semi hit a tractor and about 400 gallons of pesticide leaked out.

No one was injured in the crash and officials say the leak does not pose a public health threat.

Traffic is being detoured right now on 64th Ave. and it could take several hours to get this cleaned up.

Syosset Firefighters responded to a Hazmat spill 8:30 a.m. Tuesday morning at a Terrehans Lane home in Syosset after a resident dropped a glass jar in his garage which contained an insecticide liquid, causing dizziness and breathing difficulty for him and his child.

Syosset EMS tended to the aided, while Nassau Police Emergency Services and the Fire Marshals Haz-Mat units were called to the scene.

After taking meter readings and a sample of the substance it was determined to be Spectracide, a type of insecticide. Both of the aided refused medical attention at the scene, and all units were up at 9:25 AM.

CANYON COUNTY -- Pesticides made almost one dozen people sick in Canyon County Tuesday night.
The Canyon County Sheriff's Office says they received a call around 11 p.m. from someone who reported a strange smell near the intersection of Victory Lane and Can-Ada. Next, the caller said they felt ill.
While heading to the home, officials say they received reports that nine other people in the area were also feeling sick from the same smell.
Kuna, Ada County and Canyon County fire fighters were called in to help, as well as a Hazmat crew from Melba.
After investigating, they determined it was most likely pesticides from a crop duster.
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A real headache for commuters this morning along I-25 and Highway 14 as people called in to the Colorado State Patrol, about a 500 gallon tank juts laying in the road leaking fluid.

Westbound Mulberry street from I-25 was shut down while the Poudre Fire Authority and the Hazardous Materials Team tested the spilled chemical to see what it was.

"We believe it is a low toxic herbicide," said Capt. Patrick Love of Poudre Fire Authority.

Fire officials say about 150 gallons of the herbicide poured out onto the highway but proposed no real risk to the public.

"There is a very small threat," Love said.

The Colorado State Patrol Hazardous Materials Team also responded to the spill. They say it looks like a farm vehicle may have accidentally dumped the tank coming off the I-25 northbound exit onto Mulberry.

Emergency management and fire personnel were called to the 800 block of Rogers Road in Villa Hills after an auctioneer discovered a box labeled "Cyno Gas" while preparing for an estate auction.

The hazmat team discovered a corroding can of calcium cyanide - as well as arsenic, malathion and other poisons once used as herbicides and insecticides - in the garage. They sealed all the items in hazmat containers.

Larry Chaney, owner of Elite Estate Group, said he found the container in a locked box on a shelf in the garage while going through items for an estate auction. "It was well hidden," he said.

He said the lock on the box had a key in it, and when he opened it, he found a sealed cardboard box marked "poison." He left the garage and called 911.

A day after a fire burned through a storage yard at an agricultural supply business near the edge of Oxnard, authorities have found no indications of significant chemical exposure.

The Ventura County Environmental Health Division today was continuing to investigate the effects of the blaze at Mugu Farm Supplies, 3481 Sturgis Road, but officials said their initial investigation turned up no major problems.

Fertilizer and pesticides burned off during the fire, and officials worked to prevent runoff, said Greg Smith, manager of the county Environmental Health Division's Hazardous Materials program. He said it's less of a problem for such materials to burn than to run off into the surrounding environment.

"No smoke from a fire is safe, but this is not more hazardous than what you would find in a typical fire," Smith said.

The fire began about 1 p.m. Sunday in a storage shed-type building used as a shop on the Mugu Farm Supplies property, said Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Ron Oatman. Driven by winds, it spread to a tractor-trailer then to wooden and plastic pallets and wax-covered cardboard boxes.

The building where the fire began was destroyed, but no one was injured in the fire. Pacific Coast Irrigation, which is separated from Mugu Farm Supplies by a chain-link fence, was not affected, Oatman said.

The Colorado Springs Fire Department has cleaned up a hazardous materials spill at East Platte Avenue and North Circle Drive in Colorado Springs, and roads that were blocked have now reopened.

According to fire officials, an orange-colored, mild herbicide  -- glyphosate -- leaked from a small landscaping trailer in the parking lot on the northwest corner of Platte Avenue and Circle Drive. An online toxicology network of several extension offices, including Cornell University's, says glyphosate is relatively nontoxic, but can cause significant eye irritation. It is the key ingredient in Roundup, a  popular weed killer.

Fire officials said there was no danger to the immediate area, and hazardous materials crews were able to absorb the chemical and put it into containers for disposal.

A five-vehicle crash Tuesday night on Route 70 in Medford seriously injured one man and closed the highway for four hours.

Medford police said Brian T. Burgess, 47, of New Road in Southampton, was driving a pickup east on Route 70 in the area of Chester Avenue about 5:52 p.m. when he smashed into the last of a string of vehicles stopped in front of him. The impact pushed three vehicles into cars in front of them.

The crash also ruptured a tank of herbicide in the rear of Burgess' truck, police said.

Rescuers had to extricate Burgess from the truck and a hazmat team was called to clean up the spill.

Ann Arbor— Officials at an Ann Arbor hospital have declared an end to a hazmat situation that developed when a patient swallowed rodent poison, leaving authorities to fear he would emit harmful gases.
Officials at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital today isolated the patient to one room, where Washtenaw County hazmat teams monitored air quality. As of 4:50 p.m., hazmat teams had left the hospital and officials said gas readings were within safe levels.
Hospital spokeswoman Lauren Jones said a machine would take environmental samples over the following 24 hours.
"The levels are not at explosive or flammable levels," Jones said in a statement earlier in the afternoon. "The air has been tested and confirmed for low levels."
Hospital units remained open to the public, other than the specific unit where the patient was being treated, officials said.

EMMAUS, Pa. -- Several people have been displaced after insect foggers caused a HazMat situation at an apartment complex for senior citizens in Lehigh County.
Crews were called to the East Penn Place One apartment building in the 600 block of Broad Street in Emmaus around 8:30 Wednesday night.
Officials say the fumes from the insect foggers forced residents on the second floor to evacuate.
Some of the residents had to find another place to stay for the night and a few others were taken to the hospital for precautionary reasons but everyone is expected to be ok.

Six people, including three firefighters, got sick today after being exposed to a fumigating agent in the Hampshire Hills neighborhood in Charlotte.

Emergency crews and more than 20 firefighters responded to an incident involving hazardous materials just before 3 p.m. on Cove Creek Drive, off The Plaza near Eastway Drive.

The ill firefighters were taken to Presbyterian Hospital for evaluation. Two paramedics and another person also became ill and went to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Charlotte Fire Department spokesman Capt. Mark Basnight could not be reached for more details or explanation about what chemicals appear to have been involved.

MARION -- Three students and an instructor were taken to Marion General Hospital and about 850 students were evacuated from Tri-Rivers Career Center after a can of insecticide broke open in a floral design class Tuesday afternoon.

Instructor Dave Woessner, a 30-year teacher, dropped a pressurized can of Duraplex TR at about 2 p.m. in a class of seven students, according to Marion County Sheriff Tim Bailey.

Woessner placed the can in a bag and summoned fellow instructor Brian Thomas into the room.

Thomas, who teaches the firefighting and first-responders class at the school, called director of academics Jodi Gaietto and Gaietto decided to evacuate the school.

Firefighters from First Consolidated Fire District arrived on the scene, along with crews from three fire departments.

A decontamination and shower area was set up behind the school as the floral students milled about behind the facility. The seven students that were in the class took showers on site and were issued safety suits while their clothes were collected, according to Bailey.

KOROIT residents braced for the worst after being warned of toxic fumes but have been told the measure was largely a precaution.
Eight hundred litres of pesticide spray Roundup was destroyed by flames on Thursday, with a further 750 litres of the chemical damaged.

Country Fire Authority operations officer Chris Eagle said Roundup fumes would have dissipated on contact with air, removing the risk of paddock or dam contamination.

Murray Goulburn staff would need to assess smoke-affected goods inside the farm supplies business to determine whether they could be salvaged, he said.

The blaze started inside the store's office, later spreading to chemical storage areas.

Kirksville firefighters donned self-contained breathing apparatus Thursday night after being called to a residence concerning reports of spilled liquid pesticides.

Six firefighters were on scene to clean up the chemical spill, located in a garage at 1105 E. Harrison St.

Fire Cpt. James Snyder said a small amount of the liquid pesticide Malathion 50 had spilled in the garage and the chemical vapor had permeated the house.

The house was evacuated since the chemicals are a respiratory irritant, Snyder said.

“If you were to breath it in for a long time, it would give you a headache and cause other respiratory problems,” he said.

The fire department stayed on scene for two hours as it cleaned up the spill. Officers inspected the house today and ensured the chemicals and vapor levels were safe.

Snyder said he was unsure of how the chemicals were spilled and that despite possible health risks, neither residents or firefighters had reported any ill effects as of Thursday night.

Shortly after the hour of 8am Fire Units responded to a motor vehicle accident on Hwy 259 just North of Hawkins Parkway. While conducting a scene assessment Longview Fire Department crews discovered a chemical leaking from an Extermination Company’s pick-up that was involved in the accident.

One patient was transported to Good Shepherd Medical center to be treated for injuries sustained as a result of the accident.

The Longview Fire Department Hazmat team was able to contain and confine the spill of Cyflorine (pesticide) which did not leave the roadway or cause an exposure to either of the drivers or the environment.

A truck driver managed to unhitch his chemical cargo moments before it exploded on a highway west of Brisbane.

Authorities are still working to clear the charred remains of the trailer after the blast on the Gore Highway at Millmerran.

One house has been evacuated and the family won't be allowed to return home until the debris is cleared away.

Authorities say the truck driver acted quickly when he realised there was a fire.

He managed to unhitch his trailer, laden with drums of herbicide, from the truck's cabin moments before the cargo exploded about 1.30am (AEST) on Wednesday.

The Queensland Fire and Rescue Service (QFRS) said the fire ignited chemicals held in 20-litre drums, causing them to explode.

Firefighters in protective gear and breathing apparatus extinguished the blaze around 5am (AEST).

The Department of Community Safety said the chemicals were herbicides.

LHHS stays closed today
School remains shuttered after spray incident
Lake Havasu High School remained closed for a second day today after a student sprayed a banned pesticide on school walls and placed drops of the chemical in at least one trash can Wednesday, according to school and fire officials.
The odor from the chemical led school officials to at first believe it was a “stink bomb” in the J hall.
Devon Mills, a LHHS senior, said he showed up to school a little early Wednesday to finish homework and the “smell in the hallway was just awful.”