Fayetteville Police said Thursday afternoon that a propane blast that injured four employees with the Fayetteville SwampDogs organization was caused by a leak in an LP gas line inside the building.

Four people were injured in the explosion at the J.P. Riddle Stadium on Legion Road.

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — A ferocious fire has gutted an industrial building and damaged several others in central Pennsylvania.

The three-alarm blaze started about 10 p.m. Wednesday at the former Lear Corp. building in Carlisle, Cumberland County.

More than 100 firefighters from several counties were called in to help. A series of booms were heard throughout the night. It's believed propane tanks stored inside the buildings exploded.

Some residents in the area were evacuated. Several homes sustained minor damage.

The complex has had a variety of owners in recent years. Carlisle Events, owners of the local fairgrounds, bought the property in 2010 and planned to redevelop it.

No one was hurt. Investigators are trying to determine a cause but the fire was so severe they may never be able to determine what sparked it.

EAST VALLEY, Wash. -- A quick response limited damage from a propane tank fire at All American Propane on South Keys Road on Monday morning, firefighters say.

Chief George Spencer of the East Valley Fire Department said firefighters arrived within just a few minutes of the 8:49 a.m. alarm and were able to stop the fire from spreading from a shop where it was concentrated. Firefighters protected an adjacent storage building as well as large, nearby propane tanks.

Spencer said one worker was taken to a city hospital by private vehicle after suffering cold thermal burns from coming in contact with the propane, which converts to a liquid when frozen. More information was not available about his condition but the injuries were not thought to be life-threatening.

Spencer said the 500-gallon tank that started the fire was being moved on a forklift at the time of the incident, which caused black smoke to billow from the area.

MARTIN COUNTY - Fire crews have contained a huge fire that was burning at a gas plant in Martin County.

The fire started at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon at the WTG Gas Processing Plant on the Sale Ranch in Martin County.

The gas processing plant had liquid propane on site and that is what officials believe was burning during the fire.

Fire crews sprayed fire retardant material to contain the fire.

MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (WPRI) - A tense morning for those shopping at Rocky's Ace Hardware in Middletown on Tuesday.

An employee of the store was unable to shut off the filling valve after filling a tank.

Employees, customers, and nearby residents were evacuated from the area as crews tried to fix the problem.

Firefighters poured water on the leak to control the fumes,

They used the emergency shut off valve to stop the leaking propane.

MUKILTEO, Wash. – A propane tank has exploded near a construction site near Mukilteo, injuring five people.

Snohomish County Fire District spokesman Leslie Hynes said a 1,000 gallon tank was being loaded on a truck to be taken from the construction site when it blew up Thursday. Five people were being transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Witnesses reported hearing explosions about 11 a.m. that rattled windows.

Mukilteo School District officials say the explosion was about a mile from Picnic Point Elementary. Authorities warned those at the school that debris may still be in the air nearby. Students would not be allowed outside onto the playfields.

LANZHOU - A chemical worker died in a tank truck explosion in Northwest China's Gansu province Monday morning, local authorities said.
The tank trailer carrying 58 cubic meters of liquefied petroleum gas exploded near an LPG station in Xigu district in the provincial capital Lanzhou at around 9 am, the city's safety administration said in a press release.
It said the blast, which occurred during nitrogen replacement, broken the tank into pieces, shattered several windows and toppled a fencing at the gas station.
The victim was not identified.

Investigators are trying to determine what caused an explosion and fire inside of a downtown Wichita business.

KFDI reported that no one was hurt in the blaze.

Wichita police responded to a report of alarms sounding late Thursday at Hall Industrial Services. When they arrived they found overhead doors had been blasted open and smoke and fire coming from the building.
Battalion Chief Bobby Wolfe says explosions inside the building likely were caused by compressed gas canisters and propane tanks inside the business.

Wolfe said the building was heavily damaged. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

MCMINNVILLE -- A spectacular fire that could be seen for miles hit a rural construction building in Yamhill County early Wednesday morning.
The alarm came in just after midnight south of McMinnville to 9005 SW Trestle View Lane.
With propane tanks exploding, arriving firefighters at first could not approach the building, said McMinnville Assistant Fire Chief Larry Tidings. Water was sprayed on surrounding structures and vegetation to keep the fire from spreading.
The building had several vehicles parked inside, including RVs, a fifth-wheel trailer and work trucks, he said.

SOUTH JORDAN — Three people were hospitalized Friday after a propane gas leak sparked an explosion on Old Bingham Highway.

The incident took place around 10 a.m. near 6000 West and Old Bingham Highway, according to South Jordan Fire Capt. Nathan Morreale. A group of men who had been privately contracted by the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District were inside a vault painting the pipeline.

Morreale said the men were using a heater that was attached to a propane tank in the vault. It was unclear whether the heater was meant to dry the paint or keep the area warm.

"There was a propane tank with a hose on it and the hose leaked," South Jordan city spokeswoman Kelly Pfost said. "We're not sure what sparked the explosion, but we do know it was related to the propane leak."

Morreale said one man suffered burns to his hands and face and was transported to Intermountain Medical Center in a medical helicopter. He was classified in critical condition.

A tanker truck crash has closed a road in Luzerne County and hazardous materials crews are on the scene.

The crash happened around 9 a.m. on Route 93 near Sugarloaf.

Authorities said the driver dropped a bottle on the floor of the truck and reached for it. The tanker went off the road and hit a tree.

The tanker, which was carrying propane, overturned and is leaking.

A leaking 1,000-pound propane gas tank at 946 Newgas St. was discovered just after midnight Thursday morning by the Danville Fire Department’s on-duty shift commander, according to a department news release.

There were no injuries and no fire.

But the leaking fuel did cause a large gas cloud that brought out firefighters from the Bridge Street Station and the Hazmat team from the Airport Station.

In all, five people from two nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution.

Firefighters used a large water stream to disburse the gas cloud and keep it from igniting while the Hazmat team used two hand-held water streams to approach the tank and stop the leaking gas.

CSB Safety Recommendations from Ghent, West Virginia Propane Explosion Largely Adopted, Effecting Life-Saving Change   
 
Statement by Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso Marks Five-Year Anniversary of the Convenience Store Tragedy that Claimed Lives of
Two Emergency Responders and Two Propane Technicians
  
Monday, January 30, marks the fifth anniversary of a terrible tragedy that occurred in Ghent, West Virginia – a propane explosion that took the lives of four people and injured six others at a Little General convenience store. The accident occurred as an inexperienced worker attempted to transfer propane from a tank located against an outside wall of the store. 
 
I am pleased to report today satisfactory progress in the adoption of a number of important CSB recommendations made in our final report of September 2008, aimed at improving training requirements for propane technicians, and at improving emergency response actions by on-scene technicians and 911 operators. The recommendations have largely been adopted and will result in lives saved.

A tanker truck filled with propane tipped over in New Britain, Pa. Monday afternoon causing nearby homes to be evacuated for hours as Hazmat crews worked to clean the scene.

The crash happened around 4:20 p.m.

Three homes near New Galena and Trewigtown Roads were evacuated as of 5 p.m. as propane leaked onto the roadway, Bucks County officials said.

The roads were shut down and some power lines were de-energized as crews work to contain the spill, cops said.

WAILUKU, Hawaii -- Personnel and customers at the Maui County Service Center at the Maui Mall were evacuated Friday due to the smell of propane gas, according to county officials.
The evacuation happened at around 8:45 a.m.
A Maui Fire Department HAZMAT team responded and determined that the smell was not coming from the building but from a nearby gas company that had been purging their tanks.
Fire officials suggested that the air conditioning be turned off and fans brought in to circulate the air.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- On Tuesday, the South Bend Fire Department and Hazmat team worked for hours to control a gas leak!
Emergency crews responded to the Honeywell plant on Bendix Drive around 8:45 a.m.
Firefighters told us that a propane cylinder on a forklift started leaking under pressure.
The building was evacuated as a precaution.

Moretown, VT 12/8/11 – Vermont Route 100B in Moretown is closed between Steven’s Brook Road to the south through old Route 100 to the north for a two vehicle collision. (Click here for a map.) A 911 call came in at approximately 12:45PM this afternoon reporting a collision between a propane truck and another vehicle, just north of the town of Moretown.

Moretown Fire, Waitsfield Fire, and the Mad River Valley Ambulance responded to the scene for extrication, hazmat, and medical response. Vermont State Police troopers from Middlesex Barracks, along with members of the Crash Reconstruction Team responded to the scene, and continue to investigate the crash.

WATERLOO, Iowa --- Trial started Tuesday in a Hudson woman's lawsuit against a propane provider in connection with a 2008 explosion that destroyed her home and left her with severe burns.
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In particular, New Century didn't warn the Firgards the odor injected into the normally odorless gas could fail, allowing a room to fill up without residents knowing, Beattie said. He also said the company failed to recommend purchasing gas detectors to warn of leaks.
...Beattie said the leak started in the underground line between the outside storage tank and the house, and the dirt filtered out the ethyl mercaptan, the chemical that gives propane its distinct odor.

A gas leak at a Port of Brownsville business Monday injured one worker, caused the evacuation of seven companies in the area and released about 57,000 gallons of propane gas into the air, officials said.

Emergency personnel — including Cameron County Emergency Management, a HazMat team and Brownsville firefighters and police — responded about 9 a.m. and worked to fix a valve leak in a propane storage tank at TransMontaigne, a company that transports and stores petroleum and chemical products.

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The leak started in one propane tank, filled with 57,000 gallons, that connected with three others. The tanks hold about 90,000 gallons of gas each when full, he said.

Workers eventually were able to shut off the valve that connected the four tanks, so that only the one tank leaked its contents.

The injured worker was transported to the hospital after part of the valve struck him when it ruptured, Perez said. He said he did not have details on the man’s condition, but he was coherent after the incident.

DONEGAL, Pa. -- Firefighters rushed to control a massive fire that broke out at a lumberyard in Donegal Township Saturday morning.
Officials said the blaze started at about 9:30 a.m. when several propane tanks on Babcock Lumber’s property exploded.
Authorities said the storage building held lumber and more than 20 propane tanks, all of which exploded.
The lumberyard is not open for business on Saturdays, so no employees were on the scene except for one security guard, police said.
“The building was covered with flames when fire crews arrived,” said Assistant Fire Chief Rich Umbaugh of Chestnut Ridge Volunteer Fire Department.

BIDDEFORD, Maine -- The Biddeford Fire Department confirms there has been an explosion at MERC in Biddeford.
The call came in around 9:20 a.m.
Fire officials said a propane tank that had been thrown away went through a trash shredder causing the explosion. The explosion blew out release doors in the building.
The explosion did not cause a fire or injuries.

QUILCENE — A fire destroyed a maintenance building containing diesel and propane at Penny Creek Quarry about two miles south of Quilcene this afternoon.

No one was injured in the blaze at the quarry on Penny Creek Road off state Highway 104, said Quilcene Fire Department Chief Robert ‘Mo' Moser.

The 40-foot-by-60-foot wooden shed was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived after receiving a 9-1-1 emergency call at 12:47 p.m., said Moser, whose district was the lead agency fighting the fire.

There were no injuries, said Bill Beezley, spokesman for East Jefferson Fire Rescue, which assisted Quilcene along with Brinnon and Discovery Bay fire departments and Port Ludlow Fire and Rescue.

An investigation into the cause of the fire will begin Wednesday, said Moser, who planned to keep a crew at the site tonight to guard it from interference and watch for flare-ups.

The building contained a 2,000 gallon diesel tank, acetylene tanks and propane tanks.

“We had a couple of small explosions but nothing big,” Moser said.

The Kamakshipalya police on Friday arrested Srinivas Naidu, the owner of Sri Lakshmi Venkateshwara Convention Hall, where LPG cylinder blasts killed two and injured 15 people on Wednesday.

“After the incident, Naidu had fled Bangalore and had gone into hiding. A police team arrested him in Tamil Nadu on Friday,” said DCP (West) S N Sidramappa.

Naidu told the police that he had rented out the three-storey building to Dinesh Kumar nine months ago. He had also rented out a few houses attached to the hall and Kumar had stored some chemical in barrels, Naidu told the police.

ALPENA, MI (WNEM) -
A HAZMAT team was called to investigate after a suspicious propane cylinder was found under a bridge in Alpena, authorities say.

It happened at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday when officers from the Alpena Police Department noticed the 20-pound container under the Second Avenue bridge, located near Alpena Furniture.

According to a news release issued by the department, there were indications that the cylinder may have contained a hazardous material other then what it was designed to contain.

Officers then called in the Combat Readiness Training Center HAZMAT team in Alpena, who recovered the suspicious container.

Prince George's County's Hazadous Materials Team reported to a Sunoco at 4836 Kenilworth Avenue shortly around 3:30 a.m. to respond to a call about a leaking propane tank.

According to Prince George's County Fire and EMS spokesman Mark Brady, upon arrival, Hazmat discovered a 500 pound above ground propane tank leaking. A vapor cloud from the tank was extending across Kenilworth Avenue, Brady noted.

The team quickly resolved the issues and no one was injured.

HUBBARD — Robert E. Weirick of Academy Drive in Liberty Township was only about a mile from home when his semi pulling two trailers of freight smashed into a part of the Interstate 80 bridge over Mount Everett Road and produced a spectacular fireball this morning.

One of the trailers flipped over the bridge railing and landed in a fiery pile on the ground next to railroad tracks and Mount Everett Road.

The other trailer and the semi tractor remained part way on the bridge, with part of the trailer hanging over the edge in another fireball.

Weirick managed to escape the semi tractor and was found lying on the road at the western edge of the bridge, said John Clemente, Hubbard Township fire chief.

Firefighters from Hubbard Township and a half-dozen other departments put out the two fires after about 30 minutes, Clemente said.

Trumbull County HazMat Chief Don Waldron said the trailers were hauling a hazardous chemical called ethanolamine, petroleum oils and greases and containers of propane.

The propane tanks were exploding as Clemente arrived first on the scene, he said.

MIAMI (WSVN) -- Fire rescue are on the scene after several residents have been evacuated after a gas leak.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue received a call at around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday after a homeowner was complaining of a foul odder coming from the laundry room of a trailer park community in the area of Northwest 30th Avenue and 36th Street in Northwest Miami-Dade.

When firefighters arrived on the scene they found a 100 pound propane gas cylinder that was leaking. "At this point is burning clean. the gas in not traveling anywhere that Hazmat team is here and they have it under control," said a firefighter.

Hazmat crews are conducting a control burn to burn off the gas.

Trailer homes in the area have been evacuated. No injuries have been reported

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Firefighters responding to a report of a 1,000-gallon propane tank lead at an indsustrial supply company at 207 Greenwich Ave. in Stamford that has forced the evacuation of nearby office buildings and stopped trains on the New Haven Line.

Stamford, Conn. (StamfordAdvocate) - A propane gas leak forced the evacuation of several homes and offices downtown shortly after noon on Thursday and shut down all train service on the New Haven Line near Stamford.

The leak was reported at ABCO Gases, Welding, Safety & Industrial Supplies at 207 Greenwich Ave. when an employee was filling a 20-pound propane cylinder and smelled gas. The employee hit the emergency shut off valve, but gas continued to leak out, said Stamford Fire & Rescue Deputy Chief Tim Conway. 

LINCOLN, Calif.—Authorities on Tuesday ordered residents of a Sacramento suburb to leave an area within one mile of a burning rail car loaded with a potentially explosive chemical.
The 29,000-gallon tanker holding liquid propane caught fire in Lincoln, injuring one worker, said California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant. No details on the worker's injuries were available.
Flames shot into the air from a vent as fire crews soaked the tanker to keep down its temperature. Firefighters were allowing the propane to burn off because extinguishing the flames could allow a propane gas cloud to escape and ignite in a fireball, Berlant said.
The tanker located in an industrial area off the tracks could burn into Wednesday, he said. No other structures or train cars were reported on fire.

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- A Raleigh homeowner safely escaped his home after his grill went up in flames.

Fifty firefighters were dispatched to a home on Wagram Court in north Raleigh just after 8 p.m.

Stanley Gantman says he had just finished grilling when his grill caught fire.

"When I started it up again," he explained. "It just [went] poof."

He went inside to grab a fire extinguisher and call 911. While inside, he heard two loud pops -- his propane tanks exploding.

The 911 dispatcher instructed the homeowner to exit the home immediately. A neighbor rushed over to help, but the deck was engulfed.

"It was amazing," neighbor Bob Travis said. "It shot up immediately you could see the blue flames."

A large propane tank outside Kansas University’s Robinson Gymnasium vented gas into the air Friday morning, leading to a Hazmat call.

KU Public Safety Office Assistant Chief Chris Keary said a building security officer noticed a strange smell outside the building, 1301 Sunnyside Ave., shortly after 7 a.m. and called authorities.

The tank was believed to belong to a contractor who was working on the building’s roof.

Keary said the smell was particularly noticeable in a courtyard southeast of the building. Keary said there was no immediate danger inside the building, but the building was evacuated as a precaution.

Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical searched the building and did not find dangerous levels of gas, said Jill Jess, a KU spokeswoman.

PERRY TWP. —
The Fire Department evacuated about three dozen Perry High employees and construction workers after it was discovered that one of five 100-pound propane tanks stored on site was leaking, according to Chief Mark Martin.

The Stark County HAZMAT team has been called to the scene in order to more closely inspect the tank. Firefighters will suppress the spread of vapors using a light water stream.

The propane cylinders are being used during construction and renovation of Perry High School. 

Indianapolis Fire Department hazmat crews worked through most of the afternoon Wednesday to prevent any damage from a propane gas leak at the Omni-Source scrap metal processing facility in the 2100 block of South West Street.
IFD Capt. Rita Burris says a crane was lifting a large piece of metal, a portion of which fell onto the 1,000 gallon tank and created a two-inch gash in the tank, causing the leak. Burris says the tank was about two-thirds full when it was hit.
Firefighters evacuated the 75 workers from the facility and moved everyone at least a half mile from the site in the event of an explosion. Crews were not able to close the gash and decided to let the gas dissipate.

MARTENSDALE, Iowa - A home in Martensdale was destroyed when a propane tank exploded Friday night, according to fire officials. Investigators said the tank may have been part of a meth lab.

The home at 375 Highway 28 was officially unoccupied, but authorities said a person was inside the home when the explosion occurred at about 8:20 p.m. The Warren County Sheriff's Office declined to identify the person, but said the man had burns to the upper half of his body and was taken to Iowa Methodist Medical Center. He was later transferred to Iowa City Hospital's burn unit where he is in stable condition.

"The explosion is believed to be the result of chemical fumes building up inside the house and then being ignited by an unknown source," a sheriff's office news release said. "Investigation at the scene turned up evidence of someone attempting to manufacture methamphetamine using the current trend of 'One Pot' manufacturing."

A two-alarm fire and a hazardous material call brought about 50 firefighters and 14 pieces of equipment Tuesday afternoon to a burning chemical plant in Marietta.

The fire was reported shortly after 2 p.m. at Sinergy Elastomers Inc., a producer of waterproofing materials at 922 Mountain Industrial Drive NW near White Circle Drive in Marietta. The building is in an industrial park at the base of Kennesaw Mountain.

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The blaze began when hot waterproofing chemical spilled from a mixing barrel and ignited the propane tank of a nearby forklift, Boyd said.

CAPE CORAL -
A family in Cape Coral made a startling discovery while the prepared for a barbeque on Saturday afternoon.

Shortly before 4:00 p.m. neighbors on SE 33rd Terrace in Cape Coral heard what they say sounded like a sprinkler system and saw gas vapors on their neighbor's property.

They quickly called 9-1-1 and the HAZMAT team from the Cape Coral Fire Department isolated a 1,000 gallon undergound propane tank.

Six homes were evacuated and the streets were sealed off for about an hour as the HAZMAT team, gas and electrical companies worked to shut off the leak and disperse the propane using water.

"You'll still smell it a little bit lingering but it's jsut the residue from it hanging around. But the propane lays low and the quality's good right now," says CCFD Battalion Chief John Scimeca.

Crews performed air quality checks before, during, and after the cleanup to ensure safety.

No one was injured.

Southern Maryland Hospital in Clinton, Md., shut down its emergency room for two hours Monday night while HAZMAT crews searched for the source of a strong odor.

The administrator worried it could have been a natural gas leak.

 
After two hours, HAZMAT crews determined the smell came from the building’s propane storage tanks.
 
The hospital called in the propane supplier to make repairs, and the hospital was given the all clear.

A fire broke out in a chemical factory on Saturday in Alwar's industrial area causing loss of property, police said.

Two LPG cylinders exploded due to the fire which created panic in the area, however, no casualty was reported.

Several machines and equipments got gutted but the fire was brought under control before it could reach the drums of chlorine that were in the factory.

There were no injuries or damage from a 30-gallon propane tank leak in West York, said Neil Gunnet, the borough's fire department chief.
Firefighters were called shortly after 3:30 p.m. to the 1600 block of King Street, where propane gas was leaking from one of the tanks on a Continental catering truck. The tank's valve was damaged and there was no way to stop the vapor from leaking, Gunnet said.
"It just vented out and we stood by to make sure there was no damage to anything or no sparks," he said. "We blocked off the area. We checked (nearby) homes and buildings to make sure everything was OK. There were no problems."

AMESBURY - Rescue officials closed down South Martin Road Friday night for more than an hour as they cleaned up a small propane leak at the Eastern Propane distribution facility off South Hunt Road.

Fire Chief Jonathan Brickett said only a small amount of the highly flammable liquid escaped from the end of a distribution pipe but it was enough to attract the attention of neighbors, one of whom called authorities.

Propane, like natural gas, is odorless. As a safety measure, an additive is introduced to give it the familiar smell of rotten eggs so it can be detected if spilled or leaking.

The distribution facility, located hundreds of feet away from South Hunt Road, is where Eastern Propane truck drivers come to fill their tanks before delivering propane to customers.

A gas leak forced evacuations in Wells Tuesday.

A woman driving home from work fell asleep at the wheel, went off the road and crashed into a propane tank at the Wells Country Store.

Rescue teams responded to the scene at around 8 a.m. and evacuated a mile around the store, including the Wells Village School. They feared the tank could explode.

TAMPA - Students and staff at a Tampa high school had to be evacuated earlier this afternoon after a propane gas tank started leaking outside the school's cafeteria.

Firefighters responded around 12:30 to Hillsborugh High School, 5000 Central Avenue, after a valve on top of the cylinder began to leak. A small vapor cloud could be seen just above the leak.

Students and staff were safely evacuated to the football field and no one was hurt.

Hazmat crews were able to almost completely stop the gas flow, and  other responders used gas meters to check the inside of the school  for gas. None was found

Chadron)-The Chadron Fire Department has had a busy Labor Day Holiday. A call was received shortly before noon of a Hazmat call after a trailer came loose from a vehicle north of Chadron and ran through a fence on private property. The trailer had a propane tank on it, and propane was leaking.

A second call came in around 12:15 of a vehicle fire on the 100 block of Morehead Street. It was reported that a pickup with books in it was on fire and there were other vehicles around it. Chadron Police Officers blocked traffic so fire personnel could extinguish the blaze. The pickup appeared to be immobile and was in a fenced off lot with other older vehicles. Crews were able to put out the fire very quickly

The summer storm that struck northern Lebanon County late Monday afternoon may have contributed to a propane gas leak at a Swatara Township business, the Lebanon County HazMat unit chief said Tuesday.
Emergency crews were sent to Camp Central at 47 Mountain Drive shortly after 6 p.m. after receiving a report of a leaking propane tank.

The 1,000-pound tank rolled over after the ground underneath it became soft, said county HazMat director Ben Herskowitz. The valve became dislodged when it rolled over, causing the leak.

The storm might have been a factor in the tank's rollover, he added.

Air monitoring around the tank showed explosive conditions, Herskowitz said. The tank was about 20 feet from the Camp Central building.

"We could actually see a cloud of propane," he said.

A propane leak in Georgia closed Route 104A Tuesday afternoon.

The road was shut down after the leak was discovered in a tank at a private home. Fire officials say the leak has been contained, but nearby residents were evacuated as a precaution.

Officials said it could be some time before the road reopened.

"We're cooling the tank and the Vermont hazmat team is here and we're going to actually get closer to the tank and see if we can move it or mediate the leak in whatever way needed," Georgia Fire Chief Chris Gonyeau said.

Fire crews asked people to use Route 104 or Route 7 instead Tuesday, because they said Route 104A could be shut down for several hours.

A Bronx senior center worker was killed yesterday after a barbecue grill he was cleaning exploded with a blast powerful enough to shatter nearby windows. Joseph McLendon, an employee of the Comprehensive Care Management Center in Bronxdale, reportedly set off a chemical explosion after using the wrong kind of cleaning agents on the propane grill. Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Scanlon told the Daily News, "It was a huge, huge blast...It's a miracle more people were not hurt."
McLendon, a father of five, was pronounced dead after being rushed to Jacobi Medical Center. His mother said, "It's the most terrible thing to have to bury your child. I'm devastated. I'm just devastated." But locals wanted to know why such a seemingly dangerous task was being conducted so close to residential buildings. Neighbor Denise Rodriguez said, "Why would anyone leave a propane tank next to a senior center? Why would they do that? It puts people in danger."

The FDNY recommends that propane grills be cleaned at least once a year with soapy water, after making sure the gas tank is turned off. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says 20 injuries occur every year from gas grill fires and explosions.

CANTON —
The Stark County Hazardous Materials Team removed a leaking 300-pound, commercial-grade propane tank from a northeast Canton neighborhood Monday afternoon.

HazMat Team Manager and Canton Fire Department Battalion Chief Thomas Garra said the tank, which was taken to a remote location, was expected to be removed from the area Tuesday morning by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

Team members were called at 3:28 p.m. to Gage Place and 23rd Street NE where the tank was found. It was emitting gas and lying in the grass beside the road, he said.

“It contained a residual amount so we really didn’t get a major leak,” Garra said. “The leak was plugged and the tank was removed.”

The hazardous materials team cordoned off about 300 feet in each direction. Two hose teams with fog nozzles and another HazMat team member between them determined the source of the leak, he said.

“A fog pattern suppresses the fumes,” Garra said.

The team prevented any danger of explosion. Garra said that without an ignition source, there was no danger of explosion.

Officials are releasing details of a hazardous material leak, which happened during a hazmat training session at West Harrison weight station on Thursday.
The Indiana State Police say yesterday around 2:45 p.m., troopers and motor carrier inspectors were conducting training on hazardous materials inspections when a truck was pulled off the scales for a routine inspection. During the "walk around" , a trooper noticed a very strong smell coming from within the trailer.
State police notified the Harrison Fire Department and other hazardous materials response units. The investigation revealed the shipper, Clean Harbor Environmental Services out of Cincinnati, was hauling several tanks of various gases including acetylene, propane, Freon, mercury, and other poisonous gases to Chicago when sometime after being loaded or during shipment a 20 pound propane gas tank had an open valve, causing propane to leak.