WILDOMAR ---- One person was hurt Monday while helping to extinguish a fire that started in a swimming pool pump at a home in Wildomar, authorities said.

Firefighters with the Riverside County Fire Department responded at 11:25 a.m. to a report of a blaze at a home on Sellers Road, according to a report by Cheri Patterson, a spokeswoman for the department.

A leaky swimming pool pump caught fire, and pool chemicals that were nearby were partially burned, according to the report.

A neighbor who helped extinguish the blaze before firefighters arrived was having problems breathing, the report said. The person was taken to a hospital with moderate injuries.

Hazardous materials officials with county and state fire departments investigated the incident and determined that a relatively small amount of chemicals had leaked from the pump, and the leak did not endanger the community, according to the report.

A man was burned by chlorine gas Friday morning after the chemical leaked at a pool supply store near the US 41 bypass.

According to Sarasota County Fire Department Capt. Susan Pearson, at around 10 a.m., a tank on a chlorine truck suddenly released more than 30 gallons of the gas.

“They called in the calvary, but it wasn’t really an explosion,” Pearson said.

The worker was burned by the gas, Pearson said. She was not sure if he was the driver or an employee of the store, but was taken to Venice Memorial Hospital for treatment. No one else was injured, she said.

NEWBURGH, N.Y. -- Hazmat crews cleaned up a large chlorine spill at a school in Newburgh at around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Fire officials said workers were changing a pump for the swimming pool at Newburgh Free Academy when a valve broke. About 150 gallons of chlorine spilled into the building.

Hazmat crews from Orange County and West Point were called in to help remove the liquid. Normally, the school would have been filled with kids, but the schedule prevented that.

"Fortunately no kids in the school, this week was spring break, so it really reduced the size of the problem here today," said Newburgh Fire Chief Michael Vatter.

Three of the maintenance workers were taken to the hospital for evaluation for chlorine inhalation.

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) _ As many as eight people sought treatment at the hospital and about 90 people were evacuated from a Biddeford YMCA after higher-than-normal levels of chlorine were detected in the pool area.

Authorities say several people went to Southern Maine Medical Center in Biddeford in ambulances and one person drove to the hospital after the hazardous materials situation just after 5 p.m. on Tuesday. About 20 people were treated at the scene.

Their injuries were not considered life threatening.

Investigators suspect that higher-than-required chlorine levels were pumped into the swimming pool at the Northern York County Family YMCA.

One person was hospitalized because of a chlorine leak at St. George's School in Vancouver on Monday.

According to Vancouver fire officials, the Hazmat team was called in and the school was evacuated but students were allowed to return early Monday afternoon.

Officials say the leak was related to work being done on a decomissioned pool, which resulted in a small amount of chlorine spilling.

 A Hazmat unit was called out and one man taken to a hospital this morning after two workers at a Hampton Inn in Westminster were exposed to chlorine.

At 8:25 a.m. a caller reported a man at the hotel in the 5000 block of 88th Place was having difficulty breathing, said Westminster Fire Department spokeswoman Diana Allen.

"When they arrived they saw he had been exposed to chlorine in a pool chemical room," Allen said.

A second man who was also exposed, was treated at the scene.

The chlorine powder wasn't mixed with other chemicals and there was no need to evacuate the hotel.

"It isn't clear how they were exposed," Allen said. "It just looks like chlorine power, we're not sure if they spilled it."

SEYMOUR — A bulging bottle of chlorine used to clean Seymour High School’s swimming pool forced the evacuation of students and staff Friday, and ultimately an early dismissal.

School had opened two hours late Friday because of the morning snow, and then closed after a custodian noticed one of the chlorine bottles delivered Friday morning was defective.

There were no injuries during the incident.

According to Director of Security Richard Kearns, the school went into lockdown at around 10:45 a.m. Students and staff then were sent into the steel track and field shed near DeBarber Field for shelter and warmth. Eventually, they went into the school gym, where they waited for the buses to take them home.

More than 30 people, many of them foreign tourists, have been rushed to hospital after a chlorine leak at a hotel swimming pool on the Thai resort island of Phuket.

The accident occurred shortly after 10:00am local time at the Phuket Orchid Resort and Spa on Karon beach, according to chief investigator Lieutenant Colonel Chavalit Pethsripia.

He said more than 30 people suffered minor injuries, none of them serious, after they were exposed to an unhealthily high level of chlorine in the pool.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - More 100 people, including 40 children were evacuated from the YMCA in Lafayette this morning.

An employee raised the alarm when after smelling a strong chlorine smell. Dozens of employees and members were immediately evacuated. Fire officials said the cause of the potentially lethal leak was escaping chlorine vapors caused by an incorrect mixture of pool chemicals.

"When we got in to the building it was above ten to the point where in the room where it was spilled which is the IDLH of dangerous to life and health level, it was above that level. Pretty quickly it started to diminish," said fire chief Richard Doyle.

JACKSON — A chemical spill in a senior community sent a scare through the quiet neighborhood, as a “plethora” of first responders — some in teal, full-body suits — investigated Wednesday afternoon, police said.

The call came in about 1:30 p.m. simply as a report of a “chemical odor” at Four Seasons. Initial responders traced the source of the odor to a utility-type building near Huntington Drive used to store supplies and chemicals for the community pool, police Sgt. Wayne Olejarz said.

Authorities notified the pool company. Later, as employees of the company carried 50-pound bags of a common pool treatment chemical, sodium thiosulphate, out of the building. Oe of the bags — believed to be the source of the initial call — spilled most of its contents, and “an orange-type, gassy” vapor was released.

IRE crews were called to a chemical spill at The Herons leisure centre in Haslemere on Monday morning (January 30).

Reports of the incident came in at 8.40am and firefighter Dom Spooner said: "We were contacted by the Environment Agency after a container of the chemical used for disinfecting the pool leaked overnight."

He said it was a container of sodium hypochlorite, which is used in small concentrations in the swimming pool, adding that some of the liquid had entered the waste drains.

The chemical is used for disinfecting and oxidising water, and is what gives off the smell of chlorine. It is not harmful to people in the low concentrations used in pools. However, in higher doses it can cause red eyes and irritation.

Between 500 and 600 litres of the chemical had spilled out, the fireman added, saying that none had got into rivers or streams through the drains but would have been taken directly to the sewage treatment centre.

PALMETTO BAY, Fla. (WSVN) -- Two pedestrians were taken to the hospital after they were struck in the street.

Skyforce HD was over the scene of the crash, which happened near Southwest 146th Street and South Dixie Highway, Friday.

A pool truck struck the two pedestrians, and the crash caused the truck to spill about 100 gallons of chlorine on the roadway. HazMat crews were called out to the scene because of the chemical spill.

WYE MILLS - Emergency crews, including a hazardous materials team from the Anne Arundel County Fire Company, are working to clean up a liquid chlorine leak at Chesapeake College
Queen Anne's County Department of Emergency Services reports no injuries were caused by the leak, which left the pool's building closed. DES officials said only the one building was evacuated.
DES officials said the entire campus was not cleared because the liquid chlorine was no ventilated out of the one building. Police though did have the entrances to the college blocked off while emergency crews were handling the scene.

NAPLES — A chemical spill following a two-vehicle crash closed a portion of Airport Pulling Road South Wednesday afternoon.

Fire officials said a truck carrying pool chemicals leaked chlorine and acid, which combined to form a hazardous mixture.

North Naples firefighters received the call around 2 p.m. and cleared the chemicals from the scene just south of Pelican Marsh Elementary School near Pelican Marsh Boulevard.

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - A chemical spill near the entrance to SeaWorld forced the closure of a roadway Friday afternoon.

It happened on SeaWorld Drive. According to a Chopper 8 report, a truck reportedly spilled a small amount of a pool cleaning chemical on the roadway.

Hazmat crews have been called to the scene.

As a result of the spill, westbound SeaWorld Drive was closed between Friars and the entrance to SeaWorld.

MARSHALL - Part of the Southwest Minnesota State University campus was sealed off on Wednesday while the Marshall Fire Department and the Southwest Chemical Assessment Team responded to an explosion in the university's swimming pool area. A plastic container called a chemical erosion feeder, used to keep swimming pools clean, exploded in the lower mechanical room adjacent to the swimming pool shortly after 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

No one was injured, but CAT responders donned protective suits in order to remove hazardous material from the building.

SMSU Associate Director of University Relations Jim Tate told the Independent the container - about 3 feet tall and 8 inches in diameter - had been filled Wednesday with 3-inch chlorine tablets instead of the normal 1-inch tablets because the school apparently had run out of the 1-inch tablets. The container wasn't filled all the way to the top as it normally would've been, Tate said, so the volume in the container was the same.

Tate said he was told by the physical plant employee who was working on the pool at the time that about 15 to 20 minutes after the "chlorinator" went back online, it exploded.

"It was the same chlorine, same volume of tablets in the feeder," Tate said. "Nothing changed except the size of the tablets."

HOPKINS, Minn. - One man is reported in critical condition and another remains hospitalized after a chemical incident at a health club in Hopkins.

First responders were called to LA Fitness just before 11:15 a.m. Monday on a report that two people were having difficulty breathing after inhaling pool chemicals.

Once they arrived on scene investigators determined the victims, ages 29 and 31, had incorrectly mixed the pool chemicals. That created a toxic vapor cloud that caused respiratory injuries to both men.

A CITY centre gym has been accused of putting their staff, the public and firefighters lives at risk after leaking dangerously high levels of swimming pool chemicals into the air.

LA Fitness, in North Road, Brighton denies two offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

The case follows an incident where chlorine gas and chemical fumes caused the area around the gym to have to be evacuated, in August 2010.

Chlorine gas levels in the air were dangerously high and left emergency workers called to the scene feeling ill.

The incident could have been “potentially fatal” Hove Crown Court was told yesterday.

The chemicals in the air were the result of overloading of chemicals into the spa pool.

The water levels of chlorine could have been “harmful to babies”.

LONG LAKE, Minn. -- An employee at the AmericInn Hotel in Long Lake is hospitalized after creating a potentially deadly chemical mixture during pool maintenance Thursday afternoon, according to Long Lake Fire Chief James Vaneyll.

Long Lake firefighters responded to the AmericInn Hotel around 12:45 p.m. at 521 Willow Dr. N. for a hazmat situation. Vaneyll says an employee working in the pool area mixed together muritic acid and hydrochloric solution in error and inhaled a large cloud of gas. The man was transported to HCMC with unknown injuries.

The chemical combination could have been deadly if exposed long enough, Vaneyll says.

Another employee was also exposed to the gas but was treated and released at the scene.

The pool area is back open after a chemical company removed the container with the bad mixture.

ne person was hospitalized Monday after a chemical was detected at a Capitol Hill aquatic center.

Several people at the William H. Rumsey Aquatic Center located at 635 N. Carolina Ave SE complained of an unusual odor around 5:30 p.m. People reported feeling sick and hazardous materials units responded.

Fire officials say a chemical irritant was the cause and one adult was taken to an area hospital. Five adults and two children were treated on scene.

Two Bayonne city workers were taken to the hospital yesterday morning after being sickened when they inhaled chlorine, officials said.
About 11:30 a.m., the two Department of Public Works maintenance workers at the DiDomenico Municipal Pool at 16th Street Park went into a garage where pool chlorine is kept in containers and got hit by a “strong and quick” smell of the noxious gas, officials said.
The men, who were closing the outdoor pool for winter, walked to the 16th Street Fire Station, complaining of eye and throat irritation, officials said.
The Bayonne Fire Department Hazmat Team went to the garage and tested the air, but did not receive any elevated readings, fire officials said.
An open 5-gallon container of pool chlorine was found, and Hazmat members resealed the container and left the doors open to vent the garage, officials said. Bayonne Public Works Director Gary Chmielewski said moisture in the building had created the fumes.

MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Fire Department says that they have gone to the scene near the corner of South 38th Street and West Lincoln Avenue, responding to a hazardous materials situation there where two people had to receive medical treatment.

Battalion Chief Michael Romas tells Newsradio 620 WTMJ that they went there during the 11:00 a.m. hour to respond.

According to a Milwaukee Department of Public Works spokeswoman, a pool chemical was put into a garbage cart at a City of Milwaukee lot.  The contents of the cart were dumped into the truck.

Two workers were overwhelmed by fumes and had to receive medical treatment at a clinic.

Kids + Chemicals = Danger.

The Palo Alto Police Department today completed their investigation into a chlorine gas leak that left one family homeless and caused the evacuation of an entire apartment complex.

The cause: a 9-year-old child who had been playing with chemicals in the pool room of the Midtown Court Apartments in the 2700 block of Midtown Court.

The explosion occurred at about 7:20 p.m. Tuesday, prompting a three-alarm response by Palo Alto police and fire crews. A resident had reported smelling chemicals and seeing smoke, according to authorities.

Palo Alto police Agent Max Nielepko said investigators interviewed a number of witnesses and learned that children had been playing in the pool supply storage unit. The children were located and explained that the storage unit had been left unlocked while maintenance was being performed on the pool.

Tuesday, September 13 was literally an explosive day in Santa Clara County.

A Palo Alto family was left homeless Tuesday night when a bucket of chlorine tablets blew up at the Midtown Court Apartments at 2727 Midtown Court at about 7:20 p.m.  According to the Palo Alto Fire Department, the explosion prompted a three-alarm response and resulted in the evacuation of several units.

Palo Alto police Sgt. Brian Philip told the San Jose Mercury News that emergency teams responded to the scene after receiving reports of an explosion and chemical smells coming from beneath a stairwell in the center of the complex.  Philip said investigators located the source in the complex’s pool supply room.

“It was a chlorine substance, possibly tablets, in a five-gallon container that was off-gassing,” Palo Alto Fire Battalion Chief Niles Broussard told the Mercury News.  Fire crews took the bucket to a neighboring parking lot and covered it to stop the gasses from spewing out.

A hazardous materials team responded Tuesday morning to Homewood Hotel, after improperly stored pool chemicals were discovered during a scheduled building and fire inspection.

The hazmat team helped the Homewood Fire Department with cleanup, according to a village press release. Homewood Fire Chief Robert Grabowski said guests in the 36 occupied hotel rooms were evacuated.

“Once the hazmat condition is mitigated, occupants will be permitted to return to their rooms, typically within four to eight hours,” Grabowski said.

FARGO – A hazardous materials team responded to a north Fargo residence Monday night when pool chemicals being mixed in the kitchen reacted and overflowed, Fargo Fire Capt. Jason Mehlisch said.

Firefighters spent about half an hour on scene cleaning up the chlorine and other chemicals, which had overflowed the container in which they were being mixed, he said.

The initial call to dispatchers at 8:13 p.m. reported that pool chemicals had exploded in the 2500 block of Willow Road.

The woman mixing the chemicals didn’t seek medical attention, Mehlisch said.

Dallas Fire-Rescue was on the scene of a five-alarm fire in Dallas where a swimming pool supply warehouse caught fire after 10 a.m.

The warehouse, occupied by Leslie's Swimming Pool Company sits on 4202 Dan Morton Drive. The North Texas Food Bank also occupied part of the warehouse, although they had not started to move into the space yet.

Officials say the warehouse contains chemicals used in pool maintenance. Hazmat crews are on scene as part of the overall agency response to the fire, though the primary goal of fire crews was to simply contain the fire.

A fire spokesperson said the EPA may look into the toxicity of the smoke that blew through the area but firefighters found no harmful substances in the water run-off from the hoses.

Villa Park, IL —
It’s business as usual at the Oakbrook Terrace Park District building, Heritage Center, 1S325 Ardmore Ave., after a hazmat call was sent out Wednesday afternoon when employees at the building noticed a reaction taking place between two chemicals.

Laura Barron, park district director, said workers in the building noticed an odor that was caused from two pool sanitation chemicals that are kept at the building.

As a precautionary measure, the fire department was called and advised park district officials on appropriate clean-up of the chemicals.

Two firefighters suffered minor injuries this morning during a hazardous materials incident involving pool chemicals at a waste facility in Rancho Cordova.
Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District firefighters responded at 11:15 a.m. to a report of a fire involving hazardous materials in the 11000 block of White Road Road. They arrived to find smoke and fumes coming from a hazardous waste storage area on the site, according to a district news release.

Workers told firefighters that they were repacking dry pool chemicals in a 55-gallon drum and it appeared a chemical reaction occurred, causing a small fire and what they thought was off gassing of the material. Workers said they used a dry chemical fire extinguisher on the fire and thought they had slowed the chemical reaction. They left the area unharmed.

Firefighters were able to separate the material, which helped stop the spread and continued chemical reaction, officials said. The district's hazmat team arrived and entered the facility where they further reduced the remaining hazards.

The two injured firefighters were taken to a hospital for evaluation, and both were released for return to full duty.

NORTH FORT MYERS, FL -
A toxic explosion inside a North Fort Myers pool supply store put two people in the hospital on Sunday.

Deputies responded to Pinch-A-Penny pool supplies just before 2:00 p.m.

According to the store's owner, Matt Roadcap, one customer's chlorine jug had chemical residue other than chlorine lining the container.

The chlorine mixed with the residue, causing a massive chemical reaction.

"It was probably either residual fumes or some liquid gasoline left in their chlorine jug. Once the chlorine hits, bad things happen," Roadcap said.

Two of his employees were sent to the hospital, but they are expected to be fine.

Roadcap says he believes acetone caused the chemical reaction and that this is not the first time this type of accident has happened.

He says these unfortunate chemical reactions are frequent within the industry, and occur when people bring in containers that aren't clean.

"You don't put things in unapproved containers. Bad things happen," he says.

BROOKFIELD -- Police said a head-on collision between a car and a van led to the release of "pool cleaning chemicals," forcing the closure of Route 133 for several hours Saturday near the intersection with Mudry Farm Road.

According to Brookfield police, some responding fire personnel were exposed to chemical vapor from the van and "all parties involved," were taken to Danbury Hospital.

Information on their condition and further details about the crash were not immediately available.

Police said the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection was called to the scene along with a HAZMAT team. The chemicals were inside the van, which was heading north when it was hit by a southbound car that entered the northbound lane, police said.

GENOA -
A Genoa family of five is taken to the hospital for breathing in too much chlorine gas.

Almost a dozen different fire departments were called to 802 Evans Avenue earlier tonight after some pool type chemicals were mixed together.  Hazmat crews were also called out to help clean the chemical reaction up.  All five people hurt went to Kishwaukee Hospital.  Their conditions aren't known.

Emergency responders are working with the family though to get the chemicals cleaned up.

Dozens of firefighters, many wearing fully enclosed hazardous materials suits, swarmed the Namco facility on Larrabee Road Sunday after 50 to 60 gallons of toxic pool chemicals spilled.

Workers discovered the spill in a storeroom at about 9:40 a.m. A stack of 5-gallon containers of sodium hypochlorite, a pool treating chemical, had toppled, many of them rupturing and leaking their contents, said Public Safety Director Michael Pardue.

The handful of employees in the business evacuated the building, as did workers in the nearby Sherwin Williams paint store and Advance Auto Parts. Nobody was hurt.

The first entry teams, wearing green, Class B hazmat suits, assessed the spill and made sure the chemicals were not reacting with other substances in the warehouse, said Pardue.

Namco, a pool supply company, had technical information about the chemical. In high concentrations it can release a toxic vapor and the liquid is harmful to touch. The company also had neutralizer on site to clean it up, fire officials said.

A combination of swimming pool cleaning chemicals poured into a bucket in a West Hazleton home Saturday afternoon created a chemical vapor reaction that sent at least three people to a hospital for treatment.

West Hazleton fire Lt. Shawn Evans said a woman and her 13-year-old daughter were inside the home at 202 W. Green St. when two "pop" noises came from the bucket and vapors started filling the home, harming both of them.

The woman's husband, who is a trained firefighter, was outside at the time with their two 13-year-old sons and ran inside to save his wife and daughter. Evans said once he got them outside, one of the boys grabbed a garden hose and sprayed the three of them with water to decontaminate them while firefighters and ambulances were en route, Evans said.

A pickup towing a trailer carrying a chemical commonly used to clean swimming pools crashed Wednesday on Highway 210 near Highway 330, setting off a three-hour hazmat scare.

The driver was westbound on the 210 when a motorcyclist rode between the truck and another vehicle, said CHP Officer Daniel Hesser.

"The driver of the vehicle thought the motorcyclist was going to lose control, so he applied his brakes and turned to the right," Hesser said.

The mixture is used to disinfect swimming pools and to treat water supplies.

An AMR ambulance was first on the scene. One paramedic was overcome by fumes and he and Torres were taken to a hospital in the ambulance, Alder said.

A Cal Fire San Bernardino crew arrived and three of the five firefighters aboard the engine also were overcome, Alder said. They were taken to a hospital.

A mixture of chemicals caused an explosion at a leisure centre which injured three staff, a fire service spokesman has said.
Specialist officers from Humberside Fire Service attended Scunthorpe's Pods Leisure Centre, which is due to open next month, to help tackle the blast, which happened at 10.40am on Saturday.

The three male staff members were treated at the scene for cuts, bruises and the possible effects of breathing in chemicals, and two were taken to hospital.

There was no risk to members of the public and the chemicals were contained within the building.

A fire service spokesman said: "It is believed that a mixture of chemicals caused the explosion in the filtration system located in the plant room. Specialist chemical officers from the fire service were called to establish the type of chemicals involved.

WEST JORDAN, Utah (ABC 4 News) - A chemical mistake triggered a HazMat situation in West Jordan on Monday.

Fire officials say a pool worker at the Renaissance Condo Complex accidentally poured bleach into a container already containing acid.  Firefighters quickly closed off the area, and people already in the complex were told to stay inside their homes for a time.

Investigators say the worker did inhale some of the fumes and was taken to the hospital, but was able to tell emergency crews what happened.  No one else was hurt.

Signal Bay Waterpark was evacuated and seven swimmers were treated after a chemical spill in the pool Saturday afternoon.

It happened at about 1:30 p.m. when lifeguards noticed a "chemical smell" coming from the water and saw a yellow patch forming in the pool, Manassas Park city manager Jim Zumwalt said about an hour after the incident.

E-911 was called and the pool was immediately evacuated, he said.

One child complained of breathing problems and was treated on scene by a lifeguard and only that lifeguard, despite reports of that person being helped by another swimmer, Manassas Park Department of Parks and Recreation Director Catherine Morretta said.

A commercial garbage truck was forced to empty its load in a parking lot off of Delhi Avenue Thursday morning after the garbage in the truck caught on fire.

Delhi police and fire department responded to the scene and had the fire out within minutes. The driver was not injured.

Rumpke officials are reminding residents and businesses of what you should and shouldn't throw away.

As a reminder, Rumpke doesn't accept batteries or combustible materials, as they contain chemicals that may ignite. Also as residents wrap-up their spring cleaning and begin opening their swimming pools, local fire department officials and Rumpke remind residents of the proper way to dispose of items like chlorine and cleaning supplies.

"While these items may seem harmless, they could have dangerous implications for our drivers, landfill employees and the environment," said Randy Ellert, Rumpke safety specialist.  

For example, pool chemicals are intended to be mixed with large amounts of water. However, if only a small amount of water is mixed with the chemical, a dangerous reaction may occur, including harmful vapors and fires.

 "Residents need to realize that you can't throw everything into your trash can," Ellert said. "Chemicals and cleaning supplies that are labeled ‘Danger' or ‘Poison' typically indicate that they are a household hazardous waste and residents need to dispose of them accordingly."

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, OH (FOX19) -
HazMat crews have given the all-clear after a chemical spill in Arlington Heights. A car crashed into a pool and patio business on Elliot Drive around 1 p.m.

Sun Spot Pool and Patio houses chemicals for swimming pools in a storage area. The driver of a black Chevy ran into that storage area.

The business is near Interstate 75, but traffic on the interstate was not being affected.

A SPORTS centre in Lutterworth was evacuated after chemicals used to help keep swimming pools clean were spilt.

The accident happened at Lutterworth Sports Centre, in Coventry Road, last Wednesday evening at about 8pm.

A chemical used to keep water clean in the centre’s swimming pool is thought to have overflowed, which then sparked an automatic fire alarm.

Justin Butlin, contracts manager for the Harborough District Leisure Trust, said: “The chemicals are fed into a machine which is well away from the swimming pool and any areas where members of the public would be.

“It appears that it overflowed into a bund underneath the machine, which is designed to collect the chemicals if the machine is ever overfilled, and this then triggered the alarm.

Pool shed fire requires HAZMAT call: Plumsteadville and Ottsville firefighters extinguished a pool shed fire on Creek Road early Thursday morning. Plumsteadville Fire Capt. Matthew Overbeck said that firefighters were called to the blaze shortly before 7 a.m. and found the pool shed of a residence engulfed in flames. A HAZMAT team was called to assist as emergency workers blocked runoff from the fire from getting into a nearby stream. Officials were concerned about chlorine and other pool chemicals which had been stored in the shed. The Bucks County Fire Marshal's Office said the fire remains under investigation, but it is not believed to be suspicious.

HOUSTON – Residents of a one-block area around Colonial Park in West University had to evacuate Thursday after a hazmat spill.
City officials said muriatic acid, a chemical used to clean pools, was spilled at the park, which is located in the 4100 block of Byron.
The acid is corrosive, but officials said it was contained and posed no threat to water or sewer systems.
As a precaution, residents within a block of the park were asked to either evacuate or shelter in place.

Hatboro Police are seeking information on the driver of a white pickup truck with utility boxes on the sides believed to have been involved in an accidental spill of pool chemicals Monday morning.

The spill occurred around 8:30 a.m. at the intersection of North York Road and Montgomery Avenue, just outside of the Wawa, officials said. Following the spill, police said the driver headed northbound on North York Road. 

Chris Gowen, president of Enterprise Fire Co., said his crew was returning from a gas leak on Summit Avenue when they discovered the spill.

"We were coming down York and saw a car pushing along a plastic container," Gowen said. "We knew it was something. It had an odor to it."

No injuries were reported Tuesday morning in a chemical spill at a Matthews apartment complex, police say.

The spill was reported shortly after 9:30 a.m. at the Bexley Apartments, in the 12800 block of Vinings Creek Drive. That is off East John Street, near the Interstate 485 interchange.

A spokeswoman for Matthews police said the spill happened in a storage building near the apartments' swimming pool, and the leak was confined to the building.

Charlotte's Hazmat team was called to help the Matthews Fire Department, but the chemical vapors had dissipated by the time crews arrived.

The Saskatoon fire department briefly closed a hotel pool Tuesday after a hazardous chemical scare.

Just after noon, the department's hazardous materials team responded to a report of a chemical spill at the Travelodge Hotel on Circle Drive East, says a fire department news release.

An employee was preparing water treatment for the pool when two of the substances -sodium hypo-chloride and an acid base -used in the treatment were spilled on the floor of the pool's mechanical room. The employee called 911 after noticing the spill resulted in a chemical reaction.

The hazmat team locked down the pool area but did not evacuate the hotel because the spill was determined to be minor. The employee did not require medical treatment.

Dozens of people, mostly children, were treated for unknown respiratory ailments Saturday after swimming in a South Lubbock hotel pool.

Dozens of people, mostly children, were treated for unknown respiratory ailments Saturday after swimming in a South Lubbock hotel pool.

First responders set up a medical triage in front of Embassy Suites hotel, Slide Road and South Loop 289, to treat 24 people who started having trouble breathing while in and around the hotel’s indoor swimming pool.

ADRIAN, Mich. — Authorities say a leak at a facility that makes swimming pool chemicals released a cloud over the city of Adrian.

Police Chief Terry Collins says two workers were taken to a hospital to be checked out as a precaution following the leak about 5:30 a.m. Monday at the Chemtura Corp. facility. He says they appeared to be OK.

Collins says classes were delayed for some area schools following the leak. Adrian is located in about 60 miles southwest of Detroit.

AURORA — The Vaughan Athletic Center reopened Tuesday afternoon, after air quality tests determined the building was safe to occupy. The pool, however, will stay closed until further notice.

The Fox Valley Park District center on West Indian Trail was closed Monday, after chemicals mixed in a tank emitted a strong odor starting at about 9:30 a.m.

Aurora firefighters said contractors were mixing chemicals to be used in the pool area Monday morning when one of the materials was placed in the wrong tank. The resulting chemical reaction created a strong odor, and the building was immediately evacuated.

Firefighters in South Gloucestershire have dealt with a chemical incident at a hotel in Filton.

Emergency services were called to the Holiday Inn after reports staff had inadvertently mixed two chemicals together near the hotel's pool.

An Avon Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said one man in his 20s had been taken to hospital.

JEFFERSON - Jefferson High School was evacuated for a few hours Thursday after workers mixed chlorine and hydrochloric acid while trying to clean the school's pool, according to Jefferson School District Superintendent Michael Swartz.

The accident happened about 1:15 p.m. Thursday. Police say workers were trying to clean the pool, where an accident earlier this week hurt two people.

“The company that was cleaning the pool and the pool's maintenance area mixed chlorine with hydrochloric acid and that created a chlorine gas,” Swartz said. “It was an accident, but it happened. So, the chlorine gas then seeped into the building and we immediately evacuated the building as a precaution.”

SIMSBURY – Emergency personnel responded to a chemical leak at the McLean Wellness Pool at 75 Great Pond Road at around 7:45 this morning. As of 11 a.m., fire and other officials who responded to the scene determined that the area, which is separate from the main facility, is free and clear of any potential hazard and the next step will be to fix the problem.

“Never at any time were any residents or employees of the facility in any danger,” said David Bordonaro, president of McLean.

A CHEMICAL leak at Hartham Leisure Centre has closed roads in the area this afternoon (Thursday November 11).
Police were called at 12.50pm after being notified of a chlorine leak at the centre in Hartham Lane.
Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue service are on the scene and the building has been evacuated for the safety of users.

DEARBORN --Fordson High School was evacuated for the school day on Wednesday after a chemical reaction near the pool caused a foul smell throughout the building.

The building was to reopen at 2 p.m. Wednesday for after school activities and parent-teacher conferences, said David Mustonen, Dearborn Public Schools communications coordinator.

About 7:45 Wednesday morning, shortly after classes began, students and staff noticed a foul smell throughout the building, Mustonen said. The building was evacuated as a precaution, and the fire department was called to investigate.

The problem was traced to the pool area where too much chlorine had been added to the muriatic acid also used in the pool’s filtering system.

ST. LOUIS PARK (WCCO) ―
Four St. Louis Park High School students have been taken to a nearby hospital for observation after a problem with the ventilation at the school's pool, according to police.

Police say just after 7 p.m. a generator failed, causing the system that vents chlorine vapors from the pool area to not work properly. St. Louis Park has had two power outages in the past few days, but none affecting the school.

Responders in Hazmat suits from Hopkins are checking out the scene. School officials haven't decided yet if there will be classes Friday.

Dearborn - One person was overcome with fumes this morning at Fordson High School after pool chemicals were improperly mixed, officials said. The resulting noxious fumes caused the evacuation of the school and the eventual dismissal of classes for the day.
According to Fire Chief Rich Miller, a preliminary investigation shows that pool chemicals were somehow improperly mixed or applied, which caused noxious fumes to infiltrate the school.
Miller said the school employee who accidentally applied the chemical was overcome by the vapors and was sent to a walk-in facility for treatment.
It is believed the chemicals involved were chlorine and muriatic acid, both of which are used to treat pool water. The city of Dearborn also asked for the Wayne County Hazardous Materials Team to respond to the incident.

DAVIE (CBS4) ― All lanes were closed at Pine Island Road around 8 a.m. after a pool cleaning truck was involved in an accident with two other vehicles. As a result of the crash 30 gallons of chlorine and acid that were in the pool cleaner's truck spilled onto the highway. The accident happened between South Pine Island Road and Nob Hill Road.

Moments later, other vehicles were involved in a crash trying to avoid the first crash.

No serious injuries were reported.

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A chemical explosion forced more than 100 people out of their homes as authorities evacuated a Vancouver apartment complex Wednesday evening.
The explosion happened around 7:30 p.m. at a building located on Southeast Evergreen Boulevard
According to investigators, a maintenance man mixed several chemicals together, which caused the explosion.
He was treated at a nearby hospital for minor injuries.
FOX 12 has also learned that explosion may have something to do with a piece of equipment that introduces chlorine into a pool.

A SPORTS centre in Basingstoke was evacuated this morning after reports of a chemical leak.

Fire crews were called to the Aquadrome at 8.45am this morning after reports that a member of staff had collapsed while working with chemicals in the health suite.

More than 30 customers and staff were evacuated from the building, and two male members of staff were taken to Basingstoke hospital as a precaution.

Ryan Thurman, station manager at Basingstoke fire station, said: “It came through to us as a hazardous material incident.

“What happened is one member of staff was working with a couple of chemicals and has been overcome by the fumes.”

He confirmed that the mixture of the chemicals produced chlorine gas, which led to the evacuation of the building.

Fire crews left the scene at around 12.40pm, but the Aquadrome remains closed until experts check the levels of the gas in the building.

CHATHAM – The disposal area of the town transfer station is open for business today after a caustic substance sickened transfer station employees yesterday afternoon and a Hazardous Materials Team was called to the scene, reports the Cape Cod Times.

Transfer station workers called the fire department and reported that a substance had irritated their eyes, noses and throats, according to a Chatham Fire Department official.

No one was seriously hurt, but one employee was transported to Cape Cod Hospital for evaluation, he said.

The Hazmat team worked late into the night to clean up the transfer station, according to the official. Several substances were found, including commercial-grade muriatic acid and pool-cleaning chemicals like chlorine, said the official.

GILBERT, AZ - Crews worked for several hours Thursday night to clear the scene after a three-vehicle accident in Gilbert sent a teen to the hospital.

Gilbert Fire Department spokesman Mike Connor said crews were called to the wreck near Germann Road and Val Vista Drive around 6:30 p.m.

Connor said four of five patients evaluated at the scene were released. A 17-year-old boy reportedly suffered head injuries and a loss of consciousness and was airlifted to Scottsdale Healthcare-Osborn. His current condition is unknown.

A HAZMAT team was dispatched to the scene after a pickup truck involved in the accident rolled over, spilling pool chemicals onto the roadway.

A chemical company in Gloucestershire has been fined £66,000 following an explosion at its factory in 2006.

The incident at Biolab UK's site near Cheltenham saw chemicals leak into the River Coln, killing about 2,500 fish.

In May, the firm admitted at Gloucester Crown Court failing to take all measures to prevent the accident and failing to limit the consequences.

At Cirencester Crown Court on Friday, Judge Martin Picton also ordered the firm to pay £80,000 in costs.

The fire broke out at the water and swimming pool treatment company's factory at Andoversford on 6 September 2006.

A swimming pool chemical explosion blew the doors off a building at the Village Square Leisure Centre.

Officials say the chemical room of the pool had its doors blown open Wednesday afternoon by a chemical reaction originating in a 45 gallon barrel of sodium chloride.

Firefighters say chemicals were mixed in a barrel the night before during cleanup, resulting in the violent reaction at 2623 56th St. N.E.

There were no injuries and busy nearby Village Square was spared evacuation.

Firefighters say that is due to the chemical room being built with a separate ventilation system and away from the main pool and recreation area.

A preliminary investigation has confirmed a chemical explosion on Old Orchard Road in Springettsbury Township was due to chlorine chemicals for an outdoor pool, officials said.
York Area United Fire and Rescue Chief Robert McCoy Jr., said neighbors reported an irritant in the air around 7:55 p.m. Tuesday. When crews arrived at the scene, they evacuated six people and asked them to move to the Springettsbury Fire Co. at 3013 E. Market St.
The scene was cleared after 10:30 p.m. and those people were permitted back to their homes, McCoy said.
"Hazmat did some testing," he said. "We can't confirm it completely, but they did find it was a chlorine issue for a backyard swimming pool."

LAS VEGAS — High concentrations of a chemical similar to bleach seeped into a pool at the MGM Grand on the Las Vegas Strip on Friday, causing hotel officials to evacuate some 1,500 guests and sending at least 26 people to local hospitals with breathing problems.
Richard Brenner of the Clark County Fire Department said sodium hypochlorite went into the hotel's lazy river pool when a valve used to the control the chemical malfunctioned and remained on.
"People started smelling chlorine," Brenner said. "It doesn't take much to set our nose off."
About 100 people had trouble breathing but did not need to go to hospitals, said Brenner, the department's hazardous materials coordinator.

As soon as local authorities realized what happened hazmat crews quickly descended upon the Quakertown Municipal Pool.

"Some of our employees were performing daily maintenance on the pool. Two regular chemicals that we use on a daily basis came together and had a reaction which turned into chlorine gas," said Quakertown Managing Director Scott McElree.

As a result, early responders immediately evacuated the pool area, Quakertown Memorial Park, several nearby homes, and a few buildings including the local public library.

22 people are rushed to the hospital due to a chlorine leak during a swim class.

The HazMat situation had Sun Prairie first responders asking for help from anywhere they could get it.

The ambulances came rushing in from all around. 8 different services from area cities sending help to a Sun Prairie pool.

Police say a chlorine leak is responsible for sickening 22 people this morning including 14 kids who were rushed to the hospital during swim class.

Kittelson Swim School Owner Dan Kittelson says, "I was terrified of what could be when you talk about pools and chemicals and kids. I've been doing this 20 years and this is the first time I've seen it."

While cleaning up what's left of the problem Kittelson says his instructors quick actions likely prevented serious injuries.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- One person was injured when he mixed two pool chemicals, causing a "violent reaction" at a North Knoxville apartment complex on East Inskip Rd. Tuesday, Knoxville Fire Capt. D.J. Corcoran confirms. It happened just a few minutes before noon.

Corcoran says the incident is isolated to the pool area of Williamsburg Village, 5005 E. Inskip Rd., and does not pose any danger to nearby residents.

A maintenance worker was mixing two pool-related chemicals in a 5-gallon bucket when the reaction occurred. .

Corcoran says the chemicals, calcium hydrochloride and trichloro-s-trazainetrione, were in solid form.

The man was decontaminated at the scene, Corcoran says, and then taken to a nearby hospital. The extent of the man's injuries is not known.

CHARLOTTE -- A chemical reaction and explosion in east Charlotte sent two people to the hospital on Monday.

Firefighters say the victims were working on a community pool on Spring Ridge Lane when it happened. They both work for sun homes properties. When the chemicals reacted, they got into the workers' lungs.

Fire officials say chemical burns are bad enough, but breathing in the chemicals can be even more dangerous.

"It very well can cause damage to the respiratory tract, so it's not a good thing," said Fire Marshal Jeff Bostian.

Officials say both men were licensed and trained to work with the pool chemicals. They are both expected to be released from the hospital on Monday.

Berlin firefighters responded to a chlorine leak at Assateague State Park Tuesday morning.  The Special Hazards Response Team was also on the scene after a 150 pound chlorine cylinder, which is used for water treatment, was found to be leaking at the valve.  The Hazmat crew was able to stop the leak and no injuries were reported. 

A morning pool maintenance project turned into an explosion in a residential Rockingham neighborhood Tuesday.

Two were injured in a blast ignited by a mixture of chlorine at a home in the 1000 block of Morningside Drive. He son, Rodney Godwin, said his father was mixing chlorine with water.

Neighbors said the initial, powerful blast was followed by two smaller explosions. Two helicopters were dispatched for the injured and landed at FirstHealth Richmond Memorial’s landing pad.

A warning for people with their own pools: Don't mix the chemicals you use to keep it clean.

A Bradford, N.H., man did just that on Friday. Perry Teele mixed two different kinds of pool chemicals, causing an explosion. Both he and his granddaughter, who was nearby, sustained minor injuries.

Teele says the explosion sounded like a rifle shot, and that's what it felt like, but luckily family members were able to wash the chlorine off of him fast enough to prevent chemical burns.

Hazmat crews and emergency responders responded to the 300 block of Shrobs Hill rd. in West Manheim township around nine Tuesday for a vehicle fire involving a chemical reaction.
        Firefighters say the Maryland company van contained pool chemicals that somehow combusted. It was parked in one resident's driveway.
        First responders extinguished the fire, but the chemical reaction forced them to evacuate near by homes.
        No one was injured and people will likely be able to go back home tonight.  

There have been reports of several illnesses at the Haysville City Pool on Sarah Lane during a National Night Out celebration.

Early reports indicate a chlorine leak may be the cause.

Fire crews, hazmat and ambulances are responding to assess several possible patients.

Ambulances are transporting two people to the hospital with potentially serious injuries.

KAKE News has a crew on the way and will bring updates as soon as they are available

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Hazmat crews responded to an indoor athletic facility after nine people fell ill while swimming.
Hazmat crews from Overland Park, Kan., headed to the facility at 11301 West 88th Street just before 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Several people complained of difficulty breathing and feeling ill while swimming in the pool at 68's Inside Sports.
Fire department officials told KMBC-TV that nine patients were treated for exposure to chlorine fumes. Two of those treated were transported to a hospital for treatment of airway irritation and nausea.
All of the injuries were described as minor.
Hazmat crews remained on the scene to clear out the chlorine vapors by ventilating the facility. They will also attempt to determine what caused the chlorine fumes to build up.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City hazmat crews responded to a chemical leak at the Westin Crown Center on Wednesday morning.
The leak was reported around 10:30 a.m., and fire officials said a mixture of chlorine and other chemicals came from a pool maintenance room on the fifth floor.
The leak caused a pungent odor. Hazmat teams ventilated the area, but no evacuations were made.

Las Vegas, NV -- Three people were taken to hospital after inhaling some strong fumes after some chemicals were accidentally mixed at Red Rock Hotel and Casino.

According to Clark County Fire at around 11am Monday, Hazmat teams were called to Red Rock Hotel and Casino because chlorine was pumped into an acid tank in the hotel's pool area.

This created fumes that caused respiratory irritation to people in the area.  Three people were taken to hospital by private vehicle for treatment.

Approximately 25 gallons of chlorine was pumped into the acid holding tank, that system will be flushed and cleaned out to eliminate any further problem.

ARCADIA, Calif. (KABC) -- Dozens of children were evacuated and given medical treatment Monday after a chlorine leak at an Arcadia pool caused kids to complain of breathing problems

A total of 30 people had to be treated by paramedics.

Seventeen had to be transported to local hospitals.

Nine of them were taken to Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. All the children were treated and released, except for one that will be kept overnight.

Eight of them were transported to Methodist Hospital in Arcadia. Five of them have been released, while the other three remain under observation.

The emergency call to Arcadia County Park on South Santa Anita Avenue went out at about 11:30 a.m.

Dozens of children were at an open swim session when a pump at the pool malfunctioned, leading to the pool becoming over chlorinated, authorities said.

The kids and some life guards began complaining of shortness of breath, problems with breathing, burning eyes and throats.

MARTINSVILLE — Hazardous fumes at a Bradford Woods swimming pool in Morgan County hospitalized a child camper and three adults Thursday after a strange reaction in the pool’s chemical room.

Thirty swimmers were evacuated from the pool area late in the afternoon after they smelled the strong fumes, Bradford Woods director Shay Dawson said. In all, nurses evaluated 18 youth campers and the 13 adults who were supervising them at Camp Riley, a summer program for children ages 8 to 18 who have physical disabilities.

Emergency medical responders and fire officials also evaluated the children and adults, most of whom were fine.

Apparently 6 to 8 ounces of muriatic acid mixed with chlorine in a chemical room near the pool, Dawson said. Swimmers who had been closest to the irritating fumes appeared to be most affected.

Dawson couldn’t explain Thursday how the two chemicals became mixed, or why.

An Absecon man was hurt Sunday in an explosion caused by poolchemicals, police said.  

Frank Blee Sr., 79, of South Mill Road, was injured about 5:45 p.m.when a container of chlorine tablets exploded after pool water wasaccidentially splashed into it, police said. Blee was taken to theRegional Trauma Unit at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, CityCampus, in Atlantic City for treatment.  

Absecon police, a Galloway Township ambulance and an AtlantiCareparamedic unit responded to the initial call, and the Absecon FireDepartment and Atlantic County Office of Emergency Managementassisted to properly secure the remaining chlorine. Several homesin the immediate area were evacuated, and traffic on South MillRoad was diverted for a short time, police said.