Posts Categorized: Haz Mat
Mysterious Smoking Drum Generates Haz-Mat and Bomb Squad Response
When they reported back for work on Monday morning they found the barrel hissing and smoking.
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Lightning Strikes Chemical Tanks in Pennsylvania …. Vol. Fire Police Officer Suffers Fatal Heart Attack
Two Quarter Million-Gallon Tanks Involved
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Explosion Blows Doors Off of Ice Plant
AN AMMONIA EXPLOSION EARLY TUESDAY MORNING blew the doors off of a Reddy Ice plant in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
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Fiery Tanker Crash Kills Two in France
The crash killed both drivers of the two trucks and sent a flaming river of burning fuel along the roadside
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Explosion, Fire in German Chemical Plant
A CHEMICAL PLANT IN AN INDUSTRIAL PARK IN MARL, Germany, had an explosion-like event Saturday afternoon that started a large fire.
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Tanker Driver Perishes in Fiery Crash
A GASOLINE TANKER IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, COLLIDED with a passenger car shortly after midnight Wednesday morning.
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Magnesium Fire in Ohio
A MAGNESIUM FIRE PRESENTED THE BELLEVUE, OHIO, firefighters with an unusual challenge Tuesday morning when they responded to the MagReTech factory across the road from the Bellevue Hospital.
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Six Alarms Down Under
A SIX-ALARM FIRE JUST NORTH OF Adelaide, South Australia, is knocked down but still burning at a waste oil depot where more than 100 firefighters are working.
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Smelly Motorcyclist Brings Haz Mat Response
A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT IN BUSHKILL TWP., PENNSYLVANIA, Wednesday afternoon caused police to think that the bike was carrying chemicals used to make "meth" and called out a haz mat response.
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Chemical Fire Leaves Colorful Runoff in Germany
FIREFIGHTERS IN GOTTINGEN, GERMANY, were called out at 4 am Friday morning for a fire in a chemical storage building.
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Refinery Fire Knocked Down in Washington State
THE CHERRY POINT, WASHINGTON, OIL REFINERY near Ferndale had a costly fire Friday afternoon, but it was quickly contained and was extinguished in about two hours.
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Gasoline Tanker Burns in South Carolina
A GASOLINE TANKER LITERALLY CRASHED AND BURNED in Anderson County, South Carolina, Tuesday morning.
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Triple Train Wreck Burning in Indiana
THREE FREIGHT TRAINS ALL TRAVELING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, collided Friday afternoon in northern Indiana, setting off a fire in some cars that could be seen ten miles away
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Tanker Fire Closes California Freeway
A TANDEM-TRAILER TANKER CAUGHT FIRE on a California freeway in Montebello shortly after noon Wednesday and came to a stop just under a highway overpass.
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CCTV Catches Tanker Ka-Boom
A TANDEM-TANKER WAS DROPPING GASOLINE at a Melbourne, Australia, convenience store Sunday night when it suddenly ka-boomed and started burning.
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Koblenz – Safe Again (Updated)
THE 2-TON BRITISH BOMB LAYING ON THE RHEIN RIVERBED in Koblenz, Germany, was successfully mitigated today....
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Koblenz Ka-Boom Prevention – Part 2
THE TWO-TON BOMB WAS surrounded by a sandbag cofferdam on Friday so that the water around it could be pumped out.
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Ka-Boom Prevention in Koblenz
As the water level dropped, at least 20 bombs and mines of all sizes from World War II that had ended up in the river have been exposed.
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Updated – Third Alarm Pulled at Munitions Plant Fire in Pennsylvania
SEVERAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS ARE on the scene of a major fire at a security munitions plant in Jamestown, Pennsylvania.
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Fiery Train Wreck in Illinois – Working
A FREIGHT TRAIN CONTAINING TANK CARS OF ETHANOL derailed around 1:45 am Central near the small town of Tiskilwa, Illinois.
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Huge Chemical Plant Fire in Texas
A MASSIVE FIRE AT A CUSTOM CHEMICAL BLENDING plant in Waxahachie, Texas, is burning out of control at this hour.
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Postal Workers Get Sick at the Post Office
WHAT COULD BE CLASSIFIED AS A HAZ-MAT incident at the Exeter, New Hampshire, post office sickened 20 workers to the point where they had to flee outside and await medical help.
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Haz-Mat Called For Bull Semen
Foul Odor and Strange Vapor Trigger Response
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Catastrophe Narrowly Averted
EARLY LAST WEEK ON AUGUST 2, an explosion rocked a propane filling station in Butler County, Kansas.
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Intel Chip Plant Ka-Boom Injures Seven
A FLASH-FIRE IN A SOLVENT COLLECTION FACILITY injured seven people, one severely, Tuesday afternoon at Intel Corp.'s Chandler, Arizona, chip plant.
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